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I have donated about $300+ to GW2 today.

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Maybe he threw all his money down the toilet and didn’t get a precursor. $300 probably would buy a legendary.

Mad King Runes

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I don’t think the recipe is discoverable.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Recipe:_Superior_Rune_of_the_Mad_King

Adapt A Dev: A Wasted Last Chance?

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It is difficult for me imagine a worse change to WvW than the removal of white swords. Prior to reading that they were considering this, I thought the developers knew what they were doing and that the forum QQ was just QQ. Now I have doubts.

Runes of Holding

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Queensdale is a low level area. Perhaps, since the rune of holding is a higher level item, they took them out of the vendors there.

Personally, I always buy these runes in the WvW citadel.

Attack Animation change in Gem store?

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I don’t that’s really doable. For PvP, if an opponent goes into an animation that might be where you want to use some kind of CC.

Maybe for PvE alone this might be okay.

Going 0-500 in all crafts this week

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IMO huntsman and weaponsmith should be together. That way you can have one character that does all your ascended material promotion.

To salvage or not to salvage?

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And Gauss was IIRC six years old at the time.

To salvage or not to salvage?

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And Gauss wrote down the answer (5050) immedately, he didn’t take two minutes to think about it.

RNG as a concept: Discuss

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I just want magic find to make a difference.

WANTED: Inflation Hedge

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I was thinking T6 mats.
http://www.gw2spidy.com/gem
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/24295

You could also try speculating on silver and gold ingots, But ascended jeweler might still be a year away, so it would just be speculating.

Ascended help please :)

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You can also turn in your WvW reward tickets for obsidian shards.

Crafting back packs - why?

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I crafted one and they are cheap. The one I made was better than the exotic one made from blade shards. I will be making more. If ugly, they can be reskinned. Most of my characters don’t have backpacks visible anyway.

Precursor Woe's: A tragic story

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Also, don’t forget to eat some magic find food before forging.

How should we allocate our "points"?

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Until you are level 115 it’s useless to get defense against guards.

For a raw noob I think you should get:
Arrow Cart Mastery level 1 (10 points)
Supply Master level 4 (10 points)
Build Mastery level 1 (1 point)
Repair Mastery level 1 (1 point)

That’s your first 22 points.

Once you have 220 levels you can wait until the next season start to reset your points and get guard stacks.

Join the skilled. Join the determined.

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Skilled at nightcapping, perhaps.

What happened to silk price?

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Could be the new collection achievement for collecting all 3 types of ascended armor. People who were happy with 1 or 2 sets went out and bought a ton.

This, I think. Silk (and damask) should stabilize in a few weeks.

Weaponcrafting or Jewelcrafting?

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Don’t they sell an upgrade so you can have three crafts active? Or was that a limited-time item?

(suggestion) Damask bolts

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I don’t see a problem. But it would be fine with me if heavy armor crafting used leather instead of cloth, across the board, not just ascended level. This change might level out the prices of leather and cloth.

Bolt of Damask - How Many Do You Make?

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I have made one per day, every day (except vacations), since it became possible to craft them. I buy the silk, wool, cotton, and linen. At first I had a few months worth of cotton and linen but that eventually dried up.

The last time I did the calculation it was still profitable to make damask. Right now I’m accumulating damask in order to make a set of ascended light armor for the achievement so I’m not selling at the moment.

Track profitable objects for crafting

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Specifically I was wanting to craft various “Ogre” weapons and searching for “Ogre” would determine which ones would be easy/cheap/profitable to craft.

Track profitable objects for crafting

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It would be awesome if you could add a filter for text, “Rampager”, for example.

some questions about making my ascended armor

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I bought the insignias and the basic materials (bolts of leather and cloth) and crafted the ascended materials.

Help Deciding - Ascended or Legendary

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Figure out how much the difference is between making the legendary and selling it versus selling the precursor and the mats. Then see if the additional gold you get is worth the time.

I NEED TO FARM GOLD EASILY

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The best way to farm gold is to farm real life money, buy gems, and convert that to gold. Even a low paying job should yield close to 100 gold per hour.

Downlevelling should be more harsh

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Level 1-15 areas are too easy for level 80s.

I like the idea of disabling everything that is not level-appropriate, superior runes and sigils if the effective level is below 60, 2nd, 3rd, and elite skill slot at appropriate level, all traits if below level 20, and so on.

Best item to craft and then sell

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You can look at gw2spidy.

I make bolts of damask and the new Huntsman plant food.

Low level rares

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You can salvage cloth rares.

Salvaging Ectos?

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If you need the luck %, by all means do it.

The Fluttering Horde [TFH]- CD - (WvW/GvG)

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A bunch of quitters and fairweathers, but competant enough.

2000 Gem Card

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After an initial disappointment phase, I like the collection expander. I would not buy more than one. The collection expander makes it a snap to move a full stack from the bank to your inventory for guild bank storage, forging, or whatever. I would get one of these, but only one.

I also love the salvage-o-matic. It saves a lot of time. Get one of these when it goes on sale (normally it is 800 gems but it has gone on sale twice for 600 gems).

BLTC Key Farming?

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You can also cut some load times by jumping to the next waypoint from within the previous instance after the swords appear and you get your reward. But 15 minutes is pretty quick.

Tips on acquiring gold for new player?

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I purchase 100 bolts of silk, 20 bolts of wool, 10 bolts of cotton, and 20 bolts of linen per day and make a bolt of damask out of it. It profits about 3 gold per day with no time commitment or dungeon grinding.

WvW Warrior Commander Build?

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I always put a point into the falling damage trait. But that’s just me.

Gemstore Pickaxes Becoming Unfair?

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It’s fair. The picks cost about 120 gold at the time. 20 mining attempts per day yields about 4 sprockets, roughly 12 silver.

120 gold / 0.12 gold is 1000 days to recoup the cost.

The other picks are over priced, the watchwork pick is not under priced.

Zephyrite Rescue Pack: 15 BL Keys for 1k Gems

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I didn’t realize the probability was so low. I thought they dropped like candy.

Zephyrite Rescue Pack: 15 BL Keys for 1k Gems

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I’ll probably pick this up because I could use some of those new boost enchantment powders.

Precursor/Legendary TP prices ? What gives ?

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Demand went up.
Supply is constant.
Therefore, prices went up.

The demand went up due to the new wardrobe system which makes it possible to use legendary skins on multiple characters.

Tier 6 mats

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I sold all my bones, blood, etc. and cashed in all my laurels, but I did it in order to buy the watchwork picks. Maybe prices will go down after the watchwork pick sale is over.

the BL charging me 2x for selling items?

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You are charged 5% for listing the item, and another 10% when it sells. This keeps people from using the TP as storage.

Traidingpost Flipping should brought in line

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Nice one, OP! 8/10
The QQ on these threads is delicious.

Watchwork Pick: Why No Response?

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Thanks for the notice, I bought four of them.

If I can somehow raise 500 gold before the sale ends, I’ll buy four more.

Race Change

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I would be all over a way to reset personal story. That way there would be an easy way to get slayer achievements for my characters who have bypassed the personal story quest with the zillion rats. (Forewarned is Forearmed)

Crafting Rare Dyes: Urgent Fix Required

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Most likely you fat fingered something. I’ve done it.
I clicked “create masterwork dye” instead of “create rare dye”.

T6 materials and the Legendary struggle

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I’d like to add a couple of things,

1. Mining, there is a couple of very good spot with Rich Iron Node/Platinum Node that respawn at the same place everyday, if you have 4-5 + alt character, it becomes very lucrative to farm them everyday. (I’d be willing to show them if you are interested) I makes 3-4 gold everyday in about 10 minutes doing this.

I’d like to know the location of a reliable rich iron node that is close to a waypoint. Are you mining the platinum node that is close to the golem world event, or have you found a better one?

Skill Points

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Before the patch, copper ore was selling for about 30 copper. (It has exploded in price since, speculators rejoice!).

The current buy price for iron ingots (many of them used for ascended crafting) is about 2.5 silver (sell price about 3 silver).

500 copper ore will refine to 250 bronze ingots, costing 30 copper * 500 plus 8 copper (lumps of tin) * 50 = 1g 54s.

250 bronze ingots + 1 iron ingot + T2 dust + 1 skill point = some number of iron ingots. The average number of iron ingots is not known, but I think it’s about 80.

Reglecting the cost of the 1 iron ingot + dust, you will get about 2g 40 s – 15% = 2g 4s money back.

2g 4s-1g 54s = 50 silver per skill point. A nice 30% profit but it’s not 4 gold.

Is jute to wool more profitable?

A goal completed

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But why that item?

I upgraded a personal guild bank and bought 25k gold ingots and 25k silver ingots but I’m reasonably sure that will go up when ascended jewelcrafting goes live.

Is there a crafted rune that uses that material that you think will go up in value? Or did you just do this for the lulz?

Promoting materials in the MF rate?

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I also seriously doubt that the average T1→T2 average yield is 120. It’s more like 80 in my experience. I have not done thousands of promotions, only tens, so maybe I am a victim of RNG.

How to Make Gold

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I’ll tell you how I made hundreds of gold.

When you throw four major runes into the forge, it will give you a superior rune some of the time. I found out all the possible superior runes that could come out of it, and assumed each of them had equal probability. Rune prices were pretty stable at the time so I could figure out how much each rune would sell for. So for every four major runes you throw in the forge, you have an expectation of how much money you would get back. Over the long term (I salvaged many thousands of items, I have done the master of entropy achievement more than 1100 times) the RNG will even out.

So, to make money, all I had to do was to have a cheap source of major runes. Therefore I bought light rare armor which, when salvaged, would yield cotton. Cotton was more expensive than linen at the time. My price point was 3 silver 20 copper for light armor, 2 silver 60 copper for heavy armor (iron), and 2 silver 20 copper for medium armor.

Now, of course, you can’t get any rare armor for near that price.

TL;DR: What you’ve got to do is do the research yourself and find your own way to make money. You don’t make money being lazy.

Need advise on profitable crafting

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Sure. It takes about 10 gold worth of materials to craft a bolt of damask. They sell for 13 gold. That’s roughly 3 gold per day give or take. You can do the same thing for the other ascended materials.

Only 10 Daily Achivements?

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For me it’s working as they intended.

I go into PvP daily now (never did before patch) and get the PvP dailies. Now I am level 12 or 13 and close to the end of my first reward track.

I still don’t give a hoot about PvP but I’ll be going there now for dailies unless the end reward for the Balthazar track is horrible. In that case I won’t.