Where can you get the 200percent MF?
Go into any camp. Talk to the Settler negotiator (marked by a living story star above his head). Agree with him to help them.
Buff lasts 23 hours, only on the island, and can be picked up any number of times.
Does increased magic find improve the chances of getting a supply crate and/or a ticket from the supply crate? I really want some sclerite weapon skins.
It increases the chance of getting them to drop (I think the have the same chance as any other rare item). The MF boost does not effect however what you get inside the boxes. MF is for killing mobs only.
It may have been that the reef rider you were fighting the first time belonged to an event, and got upscaled becouse of the number of players partaking in the event.
While the second, veteran was a normal one.
Just a guess.
Marcus Graythorne:
You don’t need keys for it, if they drop, you can open the right away. Speak with the settler negotiators (living story star above their heads in any camp), to get a 200% MF buff at any time.
SpiderArachnid:
This is getting pointless. I can see why you hate this. It’s not hard to see. The thing is Anet has given us 2 options. Either buy, or grind. Skins are locked behing double RNG. So what? Just means lesser drop rate. It’s still day 2, keep farming, get your stuff. Don’t want to spend gems/gold/real money? Don’t do it then. It’s your choice.
Ps.: 99% of the items in this game is RNG. Like in all RPGs (yes).
Who cares? At this rate I can rack up like 200 boxes a month. You have to be the most unlucky person in the world not to get a skin out of those boxes.
Sidenote: Only opened 3 from the 5 so far, and yes, no minies or tickets inside. But I really couldn’t care less, I’ll get them in time. It’s a good thing, that I get rewards for actually playing the contetnt. It’s also a good thing, that you get a chance (yes, a chance) to get these things without playing on SSC.
An update:
Last night I farmed for 4 hours. Gotten about 8 rares + 3 consortium chest (and of course lots and lots of materials).
I think I’m gonna settle there too. At this rate I’ll gladly work for the consortium anyday.
Ps.: Friend got an exo again. Starting to hate him.
Farmed about 5 hours so far. Gotten 5 boxes. 300% MF. Event lasts 28 days.
Stop whining.
Don’t want to doublequote:
1. Well that is up to you. When you have the crab, run between the karka, so they will roll in different dirctions.
2. Maybe I was just lucky, but the karkas always rolled towards me. Never experienced ‘fail rolls’.
3. It may take some tries to get it, but it works. I got the achie on my 4-5th game on my 2nd opprotunity (meaning: all 3 karkas up and I have the crab).
Since then, I played some more (not much, 2-3 games) and I could have gotten the achie once more.
I’m just trying to point out it’s not pure luck, there are legit tactics.
If you have a 0.1% chance to loot an exo, a 200% boost still only makes a 0.2% chance.
Uhm… 0,3% to be precise, wich is still an estimated value.
Also: I’m fine with rares, exo is a bonus:)
Also also: rare prices have dropped a lot since the release of the patch. Coincidence?
Also also also: If the coin buff is working correctly, why wouldn’t this work?
Anyways, I’m gonna be farming here for the next few days/weeks:)
So to get crabtacular:
1. all players must ball up behind you
2. the big karkas need to roll in your direction
3. all players must fail to dodge / step aside / use the charge skillSince none of these are things that you do, why is this your achievement? If anything, all the players that died should get an achievement cause they’re the ones that did something for it.
1. Nope. When you have 3 karkas rolling around, they pretty much cover all the map.
2. Uhm… the large karkas (and also the small ones) auto target the one who has the crab… so this problem… doesn’t exist.
3. Yep. But again, 3 karkas, all rolling, 1 simple dodge won’t save the others (for you it is enough, becouse thay are caoming at you, as mentioned above).
Edit: Title? What title?
Yes this need to be changed to something that doesnt require so much luck. I just got it today after ALOT of games and only because we grouped together and let everyone take turns in getting the achievement.
Why? Doing so makes the achievment… completly pointless.
“All players who enter the island for the duration of the event are scaled up to level 80. This content is available from May 14 to June 11.”
It’s in the patch notes.
There will be an update on May 28, with the plot further unfolding.
As I aim for farming some consortium chests MF is the option for me. But i do hear that the coin buff is great too.
Alright so…
I was farming with a friend on Southsun yesterday. I was on for 3 hours, he was on for 2 and a half.
My results (not counting chests): about 6-7 rares + 3 consortium chests
His results: 9 rares + 1 exo
Conclusion: It works. And it’s awesome. The only thing what may hinder it, that there are less mobs in southsun, compared to Orr. At Orr, mobs come to you in groups of 10 (think Melandru or Grenth chain), so you can take them out in 2-3 AoEs, meaning more loot. Here the mobs don’t cluster, and are pretty ‘hard’ to kill – but with the MF boost, it’s still very much worth it.
Oh lord.
Why nerf everything?
I got the achievment last night, on my 4th game I think?
Yes, it is related to luck somewhat, but it does require skill and timing.
Protip:
- Get the crab, when there are 3 giaant karkas
- Run between the 3 karkas
- Press key 3, or do a dodge roll
- You have the achievment
And no, I wasn’t playing with the mentally diasbled, they were dodging, running, knocking me down like mad (only won 1 match).
Ps.: I was highly disappointed when Wintesday Toypacolypse got nerfed. That one, I did on my second try – by communicating with my team and giving them tips.
At least MK’s Clock tower didn’t get nerfed.
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Don’t forget MF only affects loot you get from kills, and does not effect chests.
Iruwen: But you can also view it as they have tripled your chances:)
Kiel has informed you, to talk to Levvi, who is marked no your map (Living story quest star).
I actually like looking for stuff on my own, without guides. Found all samples in under 1,5 hours. To me a giude is like skipping content, but that’s just me. Of course, if I am completly stuck, I use one too.
There’s a new JP?
Dunno, I got 3 rares within 90 mins, and I wasn’t even farming (did JPs and stuff). So it worked out for me:)
True story:
Alright, so I got a magic find boost, nice. With the bonfire it should stack pretty well. I’ll check how much. opens H menu
Reaction:
I would. But since I only need the minies, I’ll just buy them off the TP.
I also recommend to start whining after you know some droprates. Buy a 10 pack, if you get no tickets, then start to whine.
Btw: you get +200% MF guys… Drops should significally increase.
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You have pretty much missed. It has been going on for 4 months, and climax being the last 14 days.
Sorry. But do not worry, new story will be delivered on 14th may.
I ran a lot. Neither got the mini or the jetpack. So I bought the Mini for 60g.
Where’s the problem?
Edit: One last thing. You actually GET ‘tokens’ for your runs. It’s called gold.
Just an add to OP: Kefka was ok in my oppinion…. but Sepiroth in FFVII… my god I hated that guy by the end. And there was a VERY satisfying battle with him at the end.
And yes. Give us bad guys. Good bad guys, if you know what I mean.
And yeah, JRPGs tend to build up bad guys well (mostly).
As Felivastus said above me: so far all events were accessible to all players, everything scaled players up.
I’m 99% sure this will go so as well. Still, karkas are tough:)
Actually all bulbs in a traffic light are the same color, the glass is different that covers it, but I get the analogy, and I agree it should have been a different name. But seeing it’s only 3 items, it’s k with me.
Of course, we are still lokking for Hungarian members!
EU guys!
Try Whiteside Ridge.
It has been working here since launch. Don’t know about recent issues, so it might not yet, but it’s worth a try!
If they didn’t want the jewelry boxes to be a source of gold :
We wouldn’t get the unidentifiable junk objects.
We wouldn’t get non-soul-bound crafting mats.
The jewelry boxes are set at what Anet finds to be an acceptable ratio of Karma-to-Gold, and if that changes, they’ll just change the cost of the jewelry box or adjust drop rates.
Unless you’ve found a way to make them reliably drop a lodestone or some such every time you open them, but that’s another matter.
Agreed. This conversion is premitted, I use it whenever I’m full of karma, the gain is not that much anyway.
Last try to get someone awnser this, or at least give us some ideas what might be going wrong.
So, any ideas, any suggestions?
Altough their name is the same, the items do not have the same effect. The ones you get from the dungeon are adjusted to give karma according to your level.
Dunno. Seeing as you already have 3 methods to evade that attack (jump over it, use dodge, get out of range), I don’t think this would be implemented on purpose.
I don’t think any harm comes from doing this btw, but I personally would avoid doing so.
Sounds to me like very much of an exploit.
Has no one encountered this?
It has happaned to me 4 times now, so 4 attempts at guild bounties were foiled.
Don’t know if it counts, but this happened on Whiteside Ridge (EU) server.
My only idea is, that maybe at the given time ALL of the bounty targets were occupied by other guilds. But even this, seems highly unlikely as we were tracking some of them, and have been trying to Activate it for like 15 mins.
So…
This is not the first time this happened. We gathered our guild, tracked some bad guys, wanted to activate the guild bounty, but when I clicked it, nothing happened.
We still had 3 bounties left. Tried Guild bounty tier 2, 3 and training too, no result.
I have mission control in my rank in the guild, and have activated guild bounties before.
This also happened to our leader once, where neither him, or the officers could activate the bounties. It’s very embarrasing that you gathered the 10+ guys you need for it, and then have to tell them, sorry, it’s not working. Again. I feel bad about wasting their time.
Is there a known cause of this? Is this a known bug? Any help eppreciated!
(ps.: relogging did no good)
One more thing:
If nothing works, try guesting on another server, you may find it there.
Good luck!
Same dungeon, same lack of loot. Same wasted time.
Same umadbros
Same soniamdisappoint.
Wish content like this was scrapped in favor of making actual endgame.
Run CoF1 more.
Lack of loot? Really? I was in 4 times, 1 run gets me in average between 1-2 g. And of course, there are the ‘jackpots’.
I wish more quality content like this one was added.
Shameless bump.
And to add something:
- You don’t have to be active full time. If you have to go away for months, you will be welcomed back in the guild. No kicking, you can stay as long as you want.
If I understand your post correctly (wich I am not sure in), you miss one of the Lost and found achievment items?
There is no sword… there is a sword belt, is that what you mean?
The message that you are getting indicates, that you have already returned the item. If I were you, I would doublecheck if I got all 6 items (Sword belt, Compass, Logbook, Ship in a bottle, Wooden soldier, Goblet).
Other reason I can think of, is that maybe you accidently deleted the item with other ‘items that have no use’?
I have not yet heard of this problem, nor here on the forums, or in-game.
TL;DR: Check again on all 6 items.
Hi!
We are looking for Hungarian players on Whiteside Ridge server.
We are a relativly small, friendly, family like guild (40+ members, 15+ active members).
Mostly we like to do PvE and PvP stuff together, and helping other players, even if they are in different guilds.
We welcome any Hungarian players, it’s no problem if you have just began playing, we’ll help you out in any way we can.
As for the rules:
- You can represent other guilds too if you want, but please once in a while represent us too
- Dont swear/curse at other players, and never use offensive language in the map chat
- Generally be a nice person
- Particapate if you can in Guild Missions, as we need everybody to succed:)
Upgrades and bonuses:
- We currently have Guild bounties active, we are doing them every saturday/sunday, we are working on ulocking the rest
- We always have +10 magic find bonus active
Well I hope I got your attention. If you are interested, contect me via PM, in game mail, friendlist or whisper.
My in-game name is:
Gobbes
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They are pretty hard to find since the icon from above their heads have disapppeared. I think this is not intended.
jazzllanna:
Try looking near the starting area in Dieassa platou. There should be charr standing near a broken periscope, you can turn them in there (for 100 karma each).
More specifically, he’s near the ‘Living story scout’ and the ‘Memento collector’ in the south.
The question is answered by the OP him/herself. They don’t stack becouse they are different items. Normal ones you get from dailies are soulbound, these however are not.
Guess it’s becouse they tought you mught have a karma hoarder main. It’s actually a feature I think.
Is it… me? Wouldn’t that be a surprise!
I dunno, it’s the same amount of cheesy as tv series like Stargate. Captain Jack O’neill is always cheesy, not matter what.
Of course in contrast such series usually also have very dramatic moments. I feel there could be a little more drama in any of the dramatic scenes in the personal story. Or at least a better build up to it. (so many NPCs in the personal story that die dramatically while you think, I just met them, how stupid)
This is off topic but:
I agree with you 100% on the personal story. Dunno wich race you did, and what choices you made, but mine was like: – Oh hai large Norn woman who I just met, oh wait, you are already dead.
And that happened like 5 times. I don’t even remember there names, when thy departed, I was like: meh – who cares.
Partly there’s the aesthetic – Rox kind of looks like the charr equivalent of ditzy, but apparently she’s not. And Braham, well… that hair. Do norn have punks? Guess they do now.
And then there’s some of the lines in the dungeon – “get the flock out of here”. Really? You know, I’ve always been under the impression that if you’re not allowed to use profanity straight you should avoid it altogether, because what you get otherwise is, like this, cringe-inducing. And the thing about the ram… that was just silly.
…well, I can only conclude they weren’t trying to be taken seriously. The tone of the whole dungeon was a little like that. Were they supposed to be cheesy? That’d be okay, but it doesn’t really mesh with the much more grim tone coming from the refugees.
Still, I guess if this is all I’ve got to complain about, it’s a good sign, right?
Right.
I think they were meant to be cheesy, and I like it that way. The dungeon has it’s serious moments, like when the guy gets crushed that Braham knew, or when Braham asks a slave about Ottilia.
Both Braham and Rox are young, and not all serious like Rytlock and crew. In my oppinion they are a nice change of tone for once.
With that boss entrance, and the ‘Oh, we’re so dead’ stuff, it’s hard to take the bosses serious too.
I think this dungeon has just the right amount of cheese and seriousness. Loved it:)
Detailed dungeon evaluation coming up, if you haven’t done it, don’t read it as it may contian spoilers!
With that said:
Alltogether a great experience, well designed, with intresting mechanics. In detail:
1. The first part with the digging machine is something new. The ore nodes are a great addition, they are excellent mini-rewards for the smaller fights. Even without the azurite it would be great, the crystals are just an extra. It’s well desingned, that you have the time to mess around with the mobs since the digging is still going on.
2. The weapon tester miniboss. What to say: unique, intersting, fun. It’s cool that you get to learn a bit before you get to the end bosses. I enjoyed this part very much at the first time. And the second. And the third. Braham and Rox are very helpful here, it’s nice to have some ‘gameplay’ interaction with them too.
3. Freeing slaves. Reguler mob hunt with the new Molten mobs. Intresting, but a bit too long for my tastes, still good. (the crushers got me at first:) )
4. Endboss. Pure awesome. From Brahams dialouge and the entrance til the end. Hard, but not impossible, well balanced with a fair amout of challange. At first it took 5 tries.
Love that the other power ups, so it doesn’t turn into mindless autoattacking after you defeat one of them. Also a nice touch that you have to be on the run and dodging all the time, not a dull moment in that fight.
Their entrance is hilarious. As someone mentioned in another topic, it’s like somekind of an powerranger boss entrance.
The rewards are corresponding to the challange imo.
5. The escape. Nice touch. It reminds me of Super Metroids ending wich is always a bonus.
6. Bonuses. I found the dialouges (Braham and Rox) to be appropriate and funny at times. Braham shouting ‘We can do this!’ is very on spot. I liked these two at the Razing too, since then, I like them even more.
The hidden 1-time treasures are also great, adds something to the atmosphere as you can see, there have been casualties.
Basic molten mobs are always intersting to fight (altough I hate the protector:) ).
The coolent box part was a nice change of pace.
Well I think that’s about it.
Ps.: I have run it 3 times, and I will run it more. All 3 times with PUGs. Everyone in the groups agreed that the dungeon was great. Plus my active guildies too (10+ peeps).
Tl;Dr: Great, Fun dungeon. GJ Anet!
Dunno, my main is a lv80 mesmer and I haven’t noticed anything that would render me useless (Asura, Staff main, Sword + Focus Secondary)
Sure I wasn’t able to pump out 3 Illu Warlocks but hey, that’s common in Temples too (eg.: Dwayna).
Phase retreat is great for escaping AoE, and warlocks should be shattered after they land 1 hit, imo.
Only thing I noticed that Time warp was not the best choice there, since you have to run constatly, and you will be forced to leave the circle. Try using racial skills. I used Summon D-Series golem, wich worked great since it’s protection field + distracted bosses from allies.
Ps.: I hate the scepter too:)
^ That was probably the best quote from the entire thing, but a close second was Braham’s “Oh, we are so dead.” when the final bosses show up.
I loved that line, I chuckle every time I hear it.
Same. The second it jumped out the wall, I tought the same as Braham:)
1. Try looking aroud the roads on Wayfarer foothills and Dieassa Platue. You’ll bound to find some wounded refugees and downed ones.
Some achievments (like lost and found) maybe hard. Try asking players in game, if they can help you on the map chat. Or you can search up some guides. I recommend this site: http://dulfy.net
Or if you’re hardcore, you can find everything on your own, but that will take A LOT of time:)
2. As far as I know, all events are active at all time. Well except in wich requires you to kill some Molten Alliance mobs – cause they are tied to dynamic events. But these too spawn often.