I have this same problem 50% of the time that I login, and as of late I’ve been getting it more frequent. It’s really annoying having to restart the client every time cause the loading screens are like 5 minutes.
I know exactly when this bug is gonna affect me after opening up the BLTC because it will show my gems as “… Gems”, instead of “0 Gems” (or any amount I have at that time).
I was wondering why people don’t stack up gems when its a bit cheaper
and… you know.. this kind of spark will keep on coming….. with every exclusive (limited)
items that they will release in the future.
Cause Gems rarely lower in price anymore, and we’re fools to believe that they won’t rise any more in price.
I can actually see it become a good movie, depending on who directs it. It definitely has to be an adventure-lord-of-the-rings-kinda style to be successful though. Epic quest to slay the dragons, meeting new people/races, environments along the way. Meeting up with key characters that know how to beat the dragons. Epic battle for Lion’s Arch.
The storyline of GW1 would make a better movie, but I think a GW2 movie can become awesome too if it focuses heavily on CGI. Just think about an Avatar like world for Sylvari.
Because to be honest, most of the people are just playing the game the way its meant to be played. Anet then comes and retroactively claims something you are doing is an exploit and then bans you.
In the current form of the EULA, Anet does not attempt to define “Exploit,” and thus literally anything and everything you do in game can be labeled as an “exploit,” and result in a ban. This is fully in their legal right, but honestly very bad customer service.
Oh please! Are you really saying that someone who comes along, looks at a vendor, sees ten of one type of thing for 2 gold and sees 1 of the same thing for 2 s, doesn’t know that there’s an error somewhere?
Actually, no. Because you can still buy materials, craft certain items and then sell them on TP for profit, is this an exploit too? I’ve been doing this since release, haven’t been banned yet.
This was the same thing with the snowflake ‘exploit’. Of course it was much more profitable. But with anything profitable it adjusted the price of the materials. Snowflakes were so expensive that you couldn’t even make any more profit on it at the end before they patched it.
In short, people rarely know that they’re exploiting because there are many money making ways that are legal. It’s all a huge gray area.
So drive up the prices and make ppl who dont use real money grind much more? yea that plan makes so much sense.
And wheres proof of this intention? I dont mean the gem store prices are high I think they are super- but gold to gem rate is.. just I mean 4g wont even get me 140gems.
I imagine you use your money – Arena net only caters to those ppl any more though.
The ability of the Gem exchange rate to adapt to in-game inflation is an incredibly elegant system.
1. People who don’t like to spend real life money:
Benefits them, because you can use in-game gold to purchase things in the Gem Store. All other games with microtransactions off the top of my head does not have this ability.
2. People who want to convert real-life money to in-game gold
Because it adjusts to in-game inflation, the gems you buy today will be worth the same a year from now, when adjusted for inflation. When the game first came out, 100 gems got you like 20s. If that rate was flat, no one in their right minds would convert Gems to Gold. But because it adjusts to inflation, it keeps people who like to convert money into gold happy.
3. Anet
By allowing it to adjust for inflation, Anet encourages the activity of people #2 over #1, which is important since #2 spends real-money, and #1 doesn’t. If the Gem exchange rate stayed flat, no one in their right mind would purchase gems today, since Gold is so easy to get.
The Gem Exchange Rate which adjusts for in-game inflation is an elegant compromise of the 3 parties above. You’re looking at it from just #1’s perspective.
Yea I am, bc that’s the only perspective I can view it on since I dont use real money.
Great for all the real money users- I get that they are the ones bascially driving the market up and up at their leisure and Anet is happy about that.
The only activity I see for #1 is grinding.. now wasn’t Gw2 not supposed to be about that? Oh wait, it is just another MMO. Who am I kidding.
Think about it like this, you can either grind 4-5 hours for that 20g. Or work for 1 hour and convert $10,- into that 20g.
But yeah, the gem system is in favor of real money spenders. Which is not weird at all, considering that that’s how they get an income and can pay the developers to make new content.
Took me 2 months to get the 3 gifts. Basically playing the game, doing dungeons, getting titles, doing daily, more dungeons, and more dungeons. Getting some lucky drops. Also when I started gathering my materials stuff was waaaay cheaper (except for lodestones). I played a couple hours every day.
Precursor (Dusk) I farmed CoF madly for about 3 weeks.
Gold is your main concern, the rest is easy. Get Clovers first, they’ll give you a lot of other materials you need when the recipe fails.
Shovel + Purse, it’ll pay out if you do multiple runs. Just doing zone 1+2 already gives me 500 baubles (hitting all digs spots along the way). I know you’re talking about future updates, but seeing as we won’t know what’s install for us, I’ll be commenting on the now.
Well it does say “Used to mine all metals” on the actual item (not in the store though, for some reason) so it is quite likely that it will be able to mine higher tiers should they be released.
Exactly. I also would feel pretty kitten in the kitten if it didn’t work on the higher nodes once they are released.
I think a lot of it has to do with how large your thumb knuckle is. The split second it needs to happen will come sooner or later depending on the size of the knuckle or angle of the thumb. The skill comes down to replicating the perfect angle every time. And it’s important to be able to make your regular jump even if you miss the dodge part of it. When I was first learning, if I missed the dodge part I also failed to jump and kept dying.
Now that you mention it. I do put my thumb a bit crooked so that I hit the space bar a fraction of a millisecond sooner.
I think people are over thinking this dodge jumping technique. When I do it, my dodge button is the default ‘V’ and my jump is the default ‘SPACE’.
I use my left thumb and I press ‘V’ and ‘SPACE’ at the exact same time. This has resulted in a dodge jump for me every single time with out fail.
So you don’t have to try and time press jump and then really quickly pressing dodge. I can see how that would be hard. Try just pressing them both together.
This is what I’ve been doing since day 1. Had some problems when I first discovered it to replicate it, but once I did I never failed a dodge+jump since. So I have a 100% success rate. Practice makes perfect guys, keep on practicing.
A lot of the old 8-bit game bosses took longer than a minute to defeat. If anything, the health should stay the same but the mechanics to defeat the boss should become more difficult.
If you want to relate everything to the old 8-bit era then the bosses should 1-hit kill you when touched. And also spawn a million shooting balls flying across the screen that you have to avoid. Which also 1-hit kill you.
I personally don’t mind the cage fight, as long as they don’t implement it in all stages. All bosses should be different. With their own unique attack moves. Like the frog. Excellent work. Fun to fight him.
World 1 cages are meant to be a cake-walk. The problem comes with grinding and feeling the need to fight them 20 times a day. That’s a problem I hope to address next release. Also the cages in future worlds will have more interesting attack patterns that will require some level of strategy. Also I fully endorse finding secret spots where bosses can’t hit you. That’s part of classic platform game strategy.
Well.. that kinda is your fault. You see, there are many people with multiple alts who we all want to gear up with Super weapons. Requiring us to open 25 chests for 1 skin, it’s kinda hard to avoid the need for grinding it.
Seeing as you didn’t know that ‘unique’ don’t go together, and the fact that you used Laurels to get your rings. I’m assuming you don’t care about Agony Resistance, hence….
no way they’ll be worth that much once he starts selling them.
I bet ppl said the same thing about the Greatsaw skin. I know I did. Boy was that a mistake!
Yeah, but Greatsaw skins you couldn’t get guaranteed for free by doing a specific dungeon.
I also think there’s some manipulation going on. It just doesn’t make sense that ALL skins doubled in price overnight. I don’t mind though, made a cool 70g selling the skins I was hoarding.
Now people are just getting on the bandwagon thinking: “omg they doubled in price, I need to get some skins before they become even more expensive! And sell them for awesome loot”, it’s what’s keeping the price up.
I have the same problem, when I’m making groups and ask for a specific profession (Let’s say we need a guardian as 5th for Fractal), and some random guy joins as another profession. So we wait around, maybe he’ll change professions. He doesn’t. We ask him if he has a Guardian, he doesn’t. We kick him. We get insulted through whispers.
If you’re not what we’re asking of you, then don’t join our groups.
Tip 1: At the start of zone 1 grab the key next to the waterfall, but don’t use it on that chest. Use it on the chest at the 2nd checkpoint, it yields 19 more baubles.
- Tip 2: When you’re doing alt runs (with newly created characters) take 75 baubles with you to buy the shovel. It’s well worth it if you get all digging spots on the way (check dulfy.net). You’ll end up with 250 baubles in the middle of zone 2.
This isn’t a time limit DR you’re having. It’s character specific DR. Did you do anything else with the character at all? If you only do path 1 you’ll be flagged as being ‘parked’ at the dungeon and you’ll receive less tokens. This is also true even if you haven’t played that character for weeks. This can be fixed by either doing Path 1+2, or doing a lot of events or just generally playing the game with that character until it’s ‘unflagged’.
It shouldn’t in theory, because they remain Legendary even when transmuting onto exotics. But like Drede said, I doubt anyone has been brave enough to try it.
I transmuted my backpack with the Quaggan backpack, and I can still use it in the forge together with the rest of the Fractal Capacitor items. So yes you can. However you will lose the skin after you forge it.
An average zone 3 run is about 4 minutes. Provided you’re going in alone, you don’t die and can kill the boss with 3 jewels. You can take shortcuts through the poison, you’ll take damage too, but you can skip a lot of the zone.
I just got some free tournament tokens a couple of days ago by salvaging something in a gold deer chest (I think it was a gold deer chest – might’ve been some random armor pieces I had lying around) I think the silver chests work fine too. I don’t know what this thing about free tournament tokens being taken out is, I’ve been getting drops just fine.
Deer chests only give me deer tokens. I only tried silver chests. Got a lot of useless deer tokens now though… -_-’
Side 1 claims that rangers are useless regardless of player skill.
Side 2 claim that rangers are fine if you just L2P.
The reality is this: - You can clear any dungeon content in GW2 with a ranger - However, you will clear any dugneon content more efficiently using a mesmer, warrior, or even guardian.
I’ve played a ranger since beta, but I’m rerolling to mesmer now. This isn’t because I hit some sort of glass wall playing a ranger, but because I can do equal to greater damage on a mesmer while providing utility that matters (time warp, feedback, portals, etc.).
Yupyup. I have all classes at level 80, I geared my Ranger with full exotic berserk, and all traits in power. Guess what? I still do kitten damage compared to other classes.
All people claiming they are ‘awesome’ rangers and do amazing damage have never tried other classes. Sure you might do some mediocre damage, and you will complete all dungeons in the game. But it just simply goes faster with other classes. Rangers just suck overall, sorry. I feel bad for you Ranger lovers. I’d love to see the ranger do more damage and get a huge buff in the future.
But as of this moment whenever I invite a player and see that it’s a Ranger I think to myself: “Ugh, no, not another Ranger… this is going to be a long run again.”
And oh yea, pets are annoying as hell. They won’t stealth, aggro all mobs, etc. They’re more of a hindrance than help. It wouldn’t be such a problem if Rangers were allowed to stow their pets, but at the moment they just get out of their pokeball when you go in combat.
I’m having trouble getting 8 team tournament’s going too (I’m on European server), definitely playing on active hours helps a lot. Also I only seem to get paid tournament tokens from 2 team tournaments chests. Could be a bug.
One of the reasons I haven’t transmuted my Twilight yet, too many bugs with transmuting atm. Just wait, when ascended come out, people with transmuted legendaries won’t get upgraded. I can just see the rage coming now.
Guardiannnn. I’ve noticed fractals are sooo much easier if you have 1 or 2 guardians in your group. They aren’t needed, but help a lot. That being said I think Knight’s armor/jewel choice for Guardian, but Guardian isn’t my main so maybe someone else can give some more pointers before you blow your load (no pun intended).
For the record, every ring/accessory has 2 of the same kind of stats, but with a different name so you can equip both equivalent stats. But one has an offensive upgrade slot, and one a defensive. (Not really that relevant, because you can both upgrade them with +5 agony with the versatile infusion for 75 fractal tokens).
Also: Kudos for making it to level 20 without Agony Resist
This fractal isn’t that hard. I only have problems with it when we don’t have a Guardian or Ele to reflect the projectiles cause my Mesmer projectile reflecting skills are pretty limited and small compared to Guardian/Ele. I actually like the fractal cause it’s short and rather get this than Cliffside on 3rd fractal (Random partymember: “OMG WOOPS I killed the lone enemy at the arms, guess we gotta reset”).
Someone explain this to me, cause I’m getting pretty sick of it.
I have 8 alts, only play 1. Haven’t played the other 7 in a week. Last thing I did on every alt was run cof p1, went to LA, sold all the stuff and put tokens in the bank. I logon a week later, now ALL my alts get 30 tokens for running cof p1 again.
On 1 alt I even ran around queensdale to complete daily. Did some events, mined some copper ore, etc, etc. And I still get 30 tokens!
What’s up with this new DR system?! At least the old system reset after 2 hours. Can someone please explain why I keep getting 30 end reward tokens? It’s obviously DR.
I got Twilight today, wanna know how I got Dusk? I farmed my kitten off in CoF p1, salvaged all tokens I got and sold the ecto, selling all rares/ritual bags/exotics/etc that I got (I sold the rares, because salvaging averages out at about the same gold income -> 1 rare = 1 ecto on average, also selling rares is guaranteed gold whereas salvaging could be seen as gambling). Every bit helps. I was able to get about ~200-300g per week (~30g per day) doing this. It also helps if you have alts (I have 8 level 80’s when I was farming CoF), because they’ll get more token rewards each day, which will result in more gold income for the same amount of time invested running CoF p1.
After throwing away 300g (1500+ rare Greatswords) in the forge and getting nothing, I knew the mystic toilet wasn’t going to give me what I wanted.
So my advice to you is: Use the tokens to get ecto and sell them on the TP. Don’t feed Zommoros the troll. The only thing he’ll give you is disappointment.
(Bought Dusk for 500g off TP btw, I want to give a quick thank you for the person that decided to sell Dusk to the highest current bidder (me!) instead of listing it at 600g. The 2 hours I sat waiting near the TP to make sure I was the highest bidder at all times hasn’t been in vain.)
Which salvaging kit do you use? I..spend 6g to buy black lion salvaging kits.
@Direngray I used Master Salvage Kit (I save my Black Lion Kits to exotics with good upgrade components).
What Sweet Lily said. I’d suggest you do some calculations because 6g every 25 uses is quite expensive, I doubt you’ll even make a profit on them. I use Mystic Salvage Kits because I had some Mystic Forge Stones laying about from daily, but they’re the same as Master Salvage Kits. Yes, you’ll get less ecto, but they’re 24 times cheaper than Black Lion Kits.
Yes, crafting a new item will make it “Soulbound on use” again. I can’t speak for Eye of Rodgort per se, but this was the case when I created Twilight, and when throwing Ascended rings in the forge in order to get an infused ring back. Both came back as “Soulbound on use”, so I think it’s safe to say that this is the case with all soulbound items that are thrown in the mystic forge.
I got Twilight today, wanna know how I got Dusk? I farmed my kitten off in CoF p1, salvaged all tokens I got and sold the ecto, selling all rares/ritual bags/exotics/etc that I got (I sold the rares, because salvaging averages out at about the same gold income -> 1 rare = 1 ecto on average, also selling rares is guaranteed gold whereas salvaging could be seen as gambling). Every bit helps. I was able to get about ~200-300g per week (~30g per day) doing this. It also helps if you have alts (I have 8 level 80’s when I was farming CoF), because they’ll get more token rewards each day, which will result in more gold income for the same amount of time invested running CoF p1.
After throwing away 300g (1500+ rare Greatswords) in the forge and getting nothing, I knew the mystic toilet wasn’t going to give me what I wanted.
So my advice to you is: Use the tokens to get ecto and sell them on the TP. Don’t feed Zommoros the troll. The only thing he’ll give you is disappointment.
(Bought Dusk for 500g off TP btw, I want to give a quick thank you for the person that decided to sell Dusk to the highest current bidder (me!) instead of listing it at 600g. The 2 hours I sat waiting near the TP to make sure I was the highest bidder at all times hasn’t been in vain.)
I made bronze Masterwork jewels, total cost? 0g. Buy the copper setting/chain and jewel from TP, sell the crafted jewel back to merchant. Easiest monthly ever.
Sorry, but that simply isnt true smooth, it was completly possible to farm gold as quickly back then trough repeated dungeon runs, infact it was faster to farm gold back then due to no DR, while each unbound component was only a tiny fraction of the price.
Hell, even karma was more easily obtained..
And don’t misunderstand, I am not saying it was EASY back then either, im just saying it will never become as easy again as it was.
Mainly because most of the parts to the legendary are a part of the economy.
You forget that before the patches dungeons weren’t really profitable as they are now. Bosses didn’t drop loot, and you would end every run with about 20-30 tokens.
Karma was a pain to get, only events gave them. Dungeons didn’t, there were no jugs. Don’t talk about stuff you know nothing about. The only way to gain decent gold at that time was farming Orr for drops, and even then rares were at 10-15s because ecto was at that price too.
Thanks for this cool program. Got a quick question though.
I’m trying to buy Dusk, but I don’t want to get outbid cause I can’t afford the “buy now” price. Is there a way I can set this program up so that I’ll get a notification when I get outbid? I can’t seem to get it to work when I click on the + sign and put in: 1 silver, it keeps notifying me even though I didn’t get outbid.
While we’re on the subject, a friend of mine transmuted Twilight post-patched and it still shows the yellow ‘exotic’ color. He had Twilight and Sunrise in inventory and couldn’t forge Eternity because Twilight was transmuted.
This is obviously a bug and I feel sorry for people that are in the same boat that want to forge Eternity.
