This forum is filled with people just searching for something to complain about, omg. Arenanet makes this AWESOME event, with rewards that people have dreamed about since day 1. Precursors in a boss chest. Now more people have them, and can make legendaries. I didn’t get one, I’d love to have one, but I think it’s great that people finally got theirs.
Also the price went down A LOT because people were mass selling them. But as there’s so much demand and not enough supply the price will go back to it’s original price soon.
We need more events like these to get the precursor price down, so more people have a chance at legendaries. Good job arenanet, don’t listen to these guys complaining, they’ll complain about getting free precursors in the mail if they can.
I’ve been messing with recipes a few days ago, and I found that rare trinkets (doesn’t matter what level) are probably the best. Giving out 125-150 tokens (Rare trinkets being 5-10s each). Also it’s quicker.
That being said the rewards are pretty kitten. Not sure it’s worth all that gold for the payout.
The problem is that mesmer really isn’t that ridiculous in PvP (compared to thief cough, cough), people are just stupid as hell. After playing a mesmer for a while you learn their tricks, you learn their weaknesses and strengths, and you learn what to watch out for. I can say with certainty that in sPvP, and especially WvW, I can kill 90% of the mesmers I find regardless of what class I play. I know I’m not that good and I know they’re not that bad (most of them). It’s simply the case that I know what to expect from a mesmer and I know how to spot them in a crowd of clones, which isn’t hard.
Now what upsets me is when I see some idiot ranger or warrior sit there with two or three of my iBerserkers blending them into a fine paste every couple of seconds while mashing buttons trying to kill my clone. It upsets me because these are the people complaining that mesmers are OP and these are the people Anet is listening to.
As a result we get more nerfs on things that weren’t really broken to try to appease these imbeciles. The problem is these imbeciles will still die to the nerfed mesmer because they can’t figure the class out fundamentally. They will continue to die until they figure out the mechanics and they will continue to moan until the nerfs effect us so much that even these basic mechanics can’t kill the lowliest among them.
It is because of this we have such a monstrous reputation in sPvP while our PvE is utter kitten. It is because of this that we continue to see (and will continue to see) numbers nerfs in every patch, despite our abysmal PvE numbers.
I’ve come to the point where I’ve pretty much had it with this game. This last patch has been the straw that broke my mesmer’s back. Until they get their act together and actually fix things that are broken, stop arbitrarily changing numbers, and stop listening to the people who are upset that it’s a bit harder to kill a mesmer than clicking the person and rolling their face on the keyboard, then there’s really no hope for the future of mesmers. On top of the gear treadmill they’re adding, I’ve lost all hope in the game.
I’m just quoting this in the hopes that arenanet sees this. Cause they need to see this and do something about it. Revert the changes, cause stuff like the last update makes me want to quit the game for good (or at least till they fix it).
The portal changes were incredibly pointless. A zerg typically has 3 or 4 mesmers, an extra 30 sec CD changes nothing. It does however mean PvE mesmers and their parties may have to sit around and sing campfire songs while they wait for the CD when leveraging it. Making the portal die after say, 5 uses would’ve resolved this
As for removing our last ability that can hit guys on top of walls, I ask Arenanet: “What do you propose we do in WvW? – Throw insults?”
This is actually a very good suggestion and it doesn’t hurt the PvE party that consists up to max 5 players. It will also eliminate the portal bomb tactic and the culling issue in WvW by limiting the number of maximum portal uses to ~5 or 10 before the portal dissipates. Increasing the cool down doesn’t really solve the problem but only prolong the current relative issues that it has.
#2. As for the phantasms nerfs, I am too DEEPLY saddened by this change. I’m afraid Mesmers will bring little to no benefit in bringing suppression firepower when helping the team capturing a tower/keep/castle. Severe lack of decent AoE and slow maneuverability are two of our most significant weaknesses. Outside of WvW, we’re even going to have a harder time in making the “tag” count in comparison to Elementalists and Rangers who have access to skills like Fire Storm and Barrage. The nerfs on top of what this profession lacks the most – AoE is the least thing I’d expect to have happened. I have well over 1100 hours clocked on my Mesmers to know very well of our strengths and weaknesses. I have strong believes in Arena Net to make the right judgements and make changes in the most balanced way. After this patch, I’m not so certain if these changes are indeed balanced in helping what Mesmers lack the most – AoE. This change is a relative negative impact to the overall effectiveness of phantasm summoning skills in comparison to what other professions can bring to the table.
I’ve invested too much time in Mesmer that I do not want to repeat the same process of each progression again on a new profession. During the beta, I had my heart set on Mesmer because it’s the most interesting profession out of the typical warrior, caster, summoner, and rouge type of classes that I’ve played for many several years from other games and including GW1. If I had known Mesmer will be hated so much by the community along with thief being the #1 most controversial profession, I’d not have chose this path. “if you really hate MMOs, you should really check out Guild Wars 2”. This is the main reason why I really hate MMOs in general because of the constant nerfs and balanced changes from one’s perspective. By now I’ve really learned the lesson of not to buy any MMOs on release but rather at least 3-6 month later to save myself from a lot of griefing over the long excruciating process.
Completely agree. I love Mesmers the most out of any other class. But these constant nerfs make it really hard to play this class. It was already hard to “tag” mobs or invaders in WvW on my Mes, now it’s near impossible. Summon illusion! Woops, just got blinded, 20-30 second cooldown. Awesome.
That LoS nerf is also idiotic. I’ve already had many occasions now where I saw an enemy clear as day, but got the ‘obstructed’ message for some reason, making my illusions go into full cooldown without any benefit.
I’m really starting to hate MMOs because of these kind of changes, it happens all the time. Guess I’ll just go play on my Warrior for a while then, or quit, I dunno, Mesmer was the only fun profession for me to play, but now they are getting less fun to play with every patch.
The bottom line is that the changes to illusions will in reality generally make illusion builds unpleasant/frustrating to use, reducing play-style options for Mesmers.
It is indeed NOT FUN to try and summon an illusion resulting into nothing due to blind, or buggy LoS.
I did artificer for around ~1-1.5g by making Tuning Crystals (6 piles of dust*, for each dust tier). You can buy the dust from the TP for the same price the crystals sell to the merchant. So it’s basically free levelling. I used the most money for the last 50 levels or so.
(You need to do some discoveries in between, as making the tuning crystals won’t get you enough exp to unlock the next dust tier)
Each dust tier requires around 3 stacks of dust (so 750)
I’m talking about: Pile of Radiant dust, Pile of Incandescent Dust, Pile of Luminous Dust, Pile of Shimmering Dust, Pile of Glittering Dust.
- 6 dust makes 5 potions
Ive done countless hours of research, i have a friend who is a professional power trader. And he can only make 20g a day. So what the hell can you farm that makes you more money then that? You would need 13+ lodestones a day or 12+ exotics to drop.
Only 20g a day for a professional?
yes.. i dont know if you know much about the TP, but the buy to sell ratio is messed up on nearly every item. You wither buy something that buy’s instantly or you sell something that doesnt sell for 5 days.
yes.. i dont know if you know much about the TP, but the buy to sell ratio is messed up on nearly every item. You wither buy something that buy’s instantly or you sell something that doesnt sell for 5 days.if everything that he trades sold when he wanted it to. Hede be on 50G+ a day easy.
yes.. i dont know if you know much about the TP, but the buy to sell ratio is messed up on nearly every item. You wither buy something that buy’s instantly or you sell something that doesnt sell for 5 days.if everything that he trades sold when he wanted it to. Hede be on 50G+ a day easy.He made over 400g over haloween with BL chests.
yes.. i dont know if you know much about the TP, but the buy to sell ratio is messed up on nearly every item. You wither buy something that buy’s instantly or you sell something that doesnt sell for 5 days.if everything that he trades sold when he wanted it to. Hede be on 50G+ a day easy.He made over 400g over haloween with BL chests.
It wasn’t always like this. When the game first came out the prices were all over the place. I’d imagine this guy was an alpha tester, so when all of us were still in the noob area trying to figure out wtf we’re supposed to do, he was rushing his character to level 80, doing 100% map completion and collecting gold. Then when the TP came on for the first time he’d just buy off all the cheap mats and flip them around.
Buy Mystic Coins, etc, cause they were like 50copper each at that time.
Not to mention the precursors being at 50-60g. It’s not hard to imagine getting over 1500g in a week, if you know what you’re doing.
Heck, if I knew back then what I know now I would have so much money in this game that I wouldn’t know what to do with it.
“Players will be able to acquire Ascended Rings in the Fractals of the Mists dungeon, and Ascended items worn on the back can be acquired through special Mystic Forge recipes.”
Since no one actually answered his question here, yet some pointless debate has started that go way off topic (like always on these forums), I guess I’ll answer his question with a quote from Linsey Murdock (game designer for gw2):
“You’ll also see more Legendary items in the future and an update to our existing Legendary weapons. Legendary items were always intended to be on par with other “best-in-slot” items. So fear not, all existing Legendary weapons, which are currently on par with Exotics, will be upgraded to be on par with Ascended weapons at the same time that we add Ascended weapons to the game. Thus Legendaries will remain “best-in-slot” items. All Legendary items going forward will be of Ascended power. We also have plans to add more fun ways to acquire Legendary precursor items with a more “scavenger hunt” feel than they are acquired currently.”
Bad luck bro. I just salvaged 40 rares and got around 100 ecto (and yes, I’m really lucky, I know that). So…. not sure if there’s a fix or DR or whatever.
No that’s not what he means. For some reason some items appear to be bugged. For me Blueberry Pie filling, Bowls of Roux et are all not showing.
I was trying to learn the Mixed Berry Pie Filling which uses the Blueberry Pie Filling as a base and I can’t learn it despite the pie filling being in my bag.
I tried moving it to the bank et with no luck.
Uhm, if I’m not mistaken ‘Bowls of Roux’ is a recipe that’s already discovered automatically when you level up cooking.
Really awesome guide. 1.5g for an easy 10 levels is amazing. I just went through the shopping list, bought all the items on TP and followed the guide smoothly. It was almost perfect except for 1 or 2 items. But it’s pretty easy to figure out a cheap alternative.
Also at the time I did this Cayenne Pepper were close to 2s each. So I just made Peach Tarts instead, they were really cheap.
Best cooking guide on the internet to date. Costs virtually no karma or any exploring. Did it twice in less than 45 minutes.
p.s. People looking to do this for quick leveling look up Artificer guides, you can do that for ~1g too using potions.
It says it’s accountbound, yet it has the properties of being soulbound. Definitely a bug. Like with the dungeon tokens update, where they too stated they were accountbound, yet had the properties of being soulbound.
I can do this multiple times even with bigass norn characters blocking my view. I know my posting here defeats the purpose of the thread, but I just like to clarify that I LOVE the clocktower. It’s challenging, and once you know how (after obviously after some practice), it’s not that hard anymore. Please do more of these jumping puzzles anet, they’re amazing!
The game has more stuff to do, keep stuff like this for me, and people like me, to enjoy.
Superior Rune of the Centaur doesn’t activate Swiftness underwater. I’ve filed multiple in-game bug reports since release, but it still hasn’t been fixed yet. It’s the main way I get a speedbuff on my Mesmer. Please fix it.
I’ve been looking like crazy for a feature like this. Please add this arenanet! It’s so frustrating being in mid combat and ALWAYS losing my target, because I’m always changing the camera view with the right mouse button. Totally hinders the gameplay.
“Bought lots of gems” Why am i NOT shocked – this is what makes me like GW2 less than I want too – people can buy their way to all the cool stuff while the rest of us have to spend 100’s upon 100’s of hours to even remotely get close – this is not how a game should work.
It may not be “P2W” but it is JUST AS BAD when all we have in the game to distinguish ourselves are rare items and looks.
Got $1000 and a few hours a day to play the game? BAM – Legendary – so lame.”
In every MMORPG there are gold sellers, get over it.
Grats on Eternity though, I wasn’t expecting anyone to craft it so quick.
“That’s exactly my case and point. Legendaries would really be Legendary. It wouldn’t be “Oh well that guy is just a gold farmer/buyer and bought Precursor X.” People would actually RECOGNIZE their achievement and it would actually mean something.”
Well if you can find enjoyment and the feeling of achieving anything due to pure luck then kudos to you. But I think the other 99% of the population wouldn’t agree.
So.. what do I do with the Gift of Souls/Moon? Anyone know? They say we can craft them all year long. So is there something like a guy who exchanges your gift for the halloween weapons or what?
I was disappointed when I found out about the current costume system. I thought it would be like the one in gw1. It’s stopping me from buying any outfits here, because I don’t like it being a one-use (I have to get full exotic first, else I also have to spend MORE gems on transmutation stones later).
If it was multiple use, I would have bought all the costumes already. hint hint
Also, the town clothing is a big fail. I’ve never seen anyone use their town clothing. It’s just too much of a hassle to switch every time.
The only reason the others went up is because new recipes were discovered that made them useful. So unless a new awesome discovery is made with them, they’ll still be worth the least.
I’ve reported this bug many many times, the worst bug in the history of games. At first it was fun “weee look at me, I’m under the map”, now it’s just getting annoying when you’re in a tough boss fight in Arah and you get stuck while you can’t do anything or activate skills while you’re waiting for Lupicus to gut you like a pig.
I’ve also heard them respond to this bug saying it’s a collision thing, and that if they want to fix it they need to know the exact spots as to where you can teleport through walls. But this is simply not a viable solution because IT HAS HAPPENED TO ME OVER 50 TIMES NOW IN VARIES SPOTS. There are simply too many spots where this is possible.
You need another solution. The /stuck is a good one. And don’t make blink work underwater, because as a thief I also sometimes get this bug with other teleporting skills (the 5th skill on Bow for instance). I also don’t want to be forced to put blink on my skillbar the entire time, limiting myself to 2 utility skills. It’s a good skill, but I don’t want to be forced to use it.
I’ve had this happen since release, now I just put it all in the bank in case it happens again. Annoying, but arenanet won’t give your gold back. Sometimes you’re lucky and it will be there in pickup.
My advice, keep gold in the bank (carry with you somewhere between 1-2g) and don’t keep spamming the “buy now” or “order now” button in TP when it’s lagging. This seems to be the primary reason why this is happening.
p.s. Sometimes when I do accidentally press “buy now” too often and it fails, now I get my money back as if it was a drop (you can see the silver icon on the right). I think this is the failsafe option arenenet implemented after it happened to so many people. Seems like it’s not entirely fixed yet.
I’ve actually heard people were going in WvW and changing up key NPC’s and moving them outside of keeps. This is not just annoying, but also quite game breaking if I say so myself.
That first one not so much, but I’ve had it happen a couple of times. That second one killed me more than it actually should. I always try to pickup boulders and other items that are laying on the ground, and I’m also always autorunning. The result: Me autorunning and falling from a cliff.
Makes me feel like Cleveland from Family Guy when he’s falling down slowly in his bathtub but there’s nothing he can do about it. And instead he goes: “Noooo… nooo. nooo… noooooo!!”
I also believe it has to do with the character going in the ‘pick up item’ animation, but for some reason he keeps on running. Making all controls useless, because you can’t use controls when picking up items.
This happens to me all the time when attacking something from a cliff, especially on my Mesmer.
I also once had it when underwater, I would attack him at his spawn point, and tank (i.e. didn’t move at all). And he became invulnerable and reset. Very frustrating.
It’s a guardian skill bug that allows for people to move NPC’s. I was trying to put some NPC’s back, but I got reported by someone cause he thought I was the one messing it all up.
You’re level 10. You need certain trait points for other attunements to be effective. I use 30 traits in water, and the healing I do is more than fine. It’s godlike. I can max heal an entire team easily every 10-20 seconds. Wait until you get more trait points and then come back to this post.
Anyone figured this out yet? I just bought 2 extra character slots, giving me a total of 7. But I’m sure I can buy many more. Who here has bought more than 3 character slots?
It’s probably the way they ‘fixed’ the loot from dropping. They probably have a standard script for disabling content in the game, so they applied that to the loot. However, they forgot to remove the message. Wouldn’t surprise me if this gets fixed soon.
I lost a lot of stuff too during the rollback, some great drops and a lot of dungeon tokens. seriously anet, wtf?! Thinking about quitting too… what will prevent this from happening in the future? What if I had a precursor drop and it got rolled back?
well…. If we have to report every time this happened at every location we’ll be here forever. This happened to me so many times. 5 times in a row in Arah. But I guess it makes sense with the collision, cause if I could do it once, I could just keep doing it at the same spot, over and over.
Can’t you put an option in the game like /stuck, that teleports you a little bit above the ground so we can reset ourselves? It’s a good temporal solution.
I hate being in combat under the floor or in a wall, not being able to go to a waypoint, forcing me to relog.
Yeah. Something definitely wrong with old tokens. They’re still soulbound (even though they say accountbound) and they don’t stack with newly achieved tokens (after the new update). It’s kinda annoying for inventory space, but you can still use them all together (new and old).
Same thing happened to me a few days ago. I did get cutscenes, except for the last one (Where you shoot the dragon off the cliff). I didn’t get the end-chest, achievement, or anything. I also can’t enter explorable. We were waiting for something to happen for 15 minutes. But the cut scene was bugged. What a waste of time.
