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It could be market manipulation. It’s kind of an old trick where you buy everything out, and post fake buy orders in the hopes that people will think it’s actually a valuable item to invest in. When they start putting buy orders above yours you sell to those people.

Though he went a bit overboard (if that is what has really happened). Any fool knows 40-70g for that dye is way overpriced.

msyu.3689:

Would it be possible to make the musical harp sound as beautiful as a real one? ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO4s_7qVvZY

You can actually do those awesome Harp sound effects that you hear in that clip. You can get it pretty close, but it won’t be ‘exactly’ the same of course, cause you don’t have all the strings necessary to make certain tones.

I’ll try to make a tab soon on that video and record a video of me playing it. It will probably be almost the same as the existing tab that’s been flying around on the web (for flute, I think it was), except with some dual notes and funky harp sound effects added to it. It does sound rather nice.

Sir Kaboomski.1508:

Platinum is pretty easy to get… no? There are maps that basically have nothing but platinum. Been that way for a while now.

It’s been like that since launch. What I’m asking is: why the sudden drop in price now?

What’s the deal with platinum ore? It always fluctuates between the 1.4-1.9s range. But as of today it’s 1s. Did I miss an announcement update?

I wonder why… anyone know?

And why today? The rich ore maps have been out for quite a while now. Makes no sense that it tanks today. I expected them to tank when those permanent ore maps were posted on reddit.

ReizVolle.5137:

Well. The best way to turn Karma to Gold, would be to get 4 account bound items from heart vendors and Mystic Forge them into one items that you can salvage or sell. So… lvl 55 (lien) stuff…. watch out, Cause I got 1.5mil karma to spend!! ..
Basically it’s easier to do the forge right there instead of having to run back an forth every 10 items

Even with 1.5 million karma, you will only get about ~150g (provided you’re talking about linen). Which isn’t very good and in no way justifies buying a Mystic Forge Conduit.

laokoko.7403:

Orangensaft.7139:

its 1800g now… crazy

Oh you missed your chance on 1800-400 = 1400 gold profit Vol =)

No one will buy it for that price.

The reason why it went up to 1800g is because someone bought them all out and then put a fake demand on them (e.g. put in 3 million buy orders to make it on the top demanded list). The buy order price was still at around the same price as it was. It’s because people like you believe that there actually is a 1400 gold profit that these market manipulation tricks work.

Always check the graphs, because the TP doesn’t show you everything.

http://www.gw2tp.com/item/35728-mystic-forge-conduit

The bottom curve shows that 9 mystic forge conduits vanished (9 supply), if you look at the timeframe this all happened within 4 hours. This must be by 1 person, because there is no other reason why they would get bought out like that.
You can also see the fake demand being added to the buy orders (from 928 to 2.8 million within hours).

Minstrel and Kraitkin

Grok Krog.9581:

Thanks Rogue. I think I should’ve rephrased my second question a bit better. By the actual note I meant is 1 E, 2 F, etc. etc.

On the Harp it’s:

1 = C
2 = D
3 = E
4 = F
5 = G
6 = A
7 = B
8 = C

Morte de Angelis.7986:

Not sure how accurate it is but I was playing with the Harp yesterday and I think I made the tune for frère jacques.

4564 – 4564 – 678 – 678 -887654 – 887654 -323 – 323

All done on the middle octave. If someone finds a better tune to match the actual tune PM me and I’ll update this

I think this would be more accurate:
1231 1231 345 345 565431 565431 [858 858]

Grok Krog.9581:

I got a couple questions. Does the flute tab move over to the harp well for Saria’s song? And, what are the actual notes in each octave?

Yes. It plays very well for Harp. I love to play it. It sounds very accurate.

Credit: Rayti

froacus.6892:

I’ve always wondered how many people engage in this type of transaction. And for 600g, I’d GLADLY give my gift of mastery + clovers.

Given the fact that legendaries sell for 700-900g profit. I doubt you can get someone to buy your acc bound items for a measly ~100g profit at best.

I know people that did this. They didn’t really ‘value’ the items. They just told the other person: “Look. I’ll give you all the gold you need to craft a legendary. I’ll even pay for the listing fee by listing it myself. And I’ll give you 300g guaranteed. Whether it sells or not.”

300g guaranteed isn’t a bad deal. I think the profit is about equal on most legendaries when you think about list fee (maybe you get a bit more, but you’re the one taking the risk).

Trusted or not, the possibility of getting scammed is always there. A friend of mine got scammed a lot, but he made a lot of money cause he had a lot of people that he did this with. So getting scammed out of a few legendaries wasn’t a big deal for him.

Still kinda stupid that people can get away with scamming people out of thousands of gold, but hey, that’s a completely different subject.

I had to make this, because the theme is just too awesome (keep in mind that it’s not possible to play the entire song due to the harp’s limitation).

Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOc0TmdaW2k

Awesome! I’ve been wanting to make a thread and noticed you already did. Here are some of mine:

A lot of songs that Rayti.6531 uploaded to his/her channel also work on the Harp. Just wanted to throw it out there. Cause his/her work is amazing!
Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/gothic612

He/She has several songs on there, including:
- Wind Waker Prologue
- Ballad of the Goddess (Skyward Sword)
- A Whole New World
- Sunny Glade (SAB)/Logan’s Journey
- Saria’s/Epona’s Song
And many more!

Also a special mention to livskis from reddit for his amazing conversion of the Sheik’s theme:

Original thread:
http://w3.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1xm1kr/sheikh_song_tab_for_the_harp

Also another special mention to Silverdisc for his Final Fantasy Prelude:

Original thread:
http://w3.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1xn8on/harp_final_fantasy_prelude_tab

Ram Banson.4081:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yc7kp_ETGU

someone pls do this! PLEASE!!

edit: figured out (highest octave) 8 565 312 8 565 352

Someone has posted a very nice version of this one on reddit. Yours plays the same notes obviously, but he has tabs for playing double notes. It gives a very nice effect, one that only the Harp can produce in-game currently.

Credits goes to: livskis

Link:
http://w3.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1xm1kr/sheikh_song_tab_for_the_harp/

Luigi.1584:

If they did live on Twitch while doing dredges on level 49/50 it would be the biggest fail of the year.

I would skip a day of work to see this.

Just did this run. It’s a great way to get Karma. But we only had around 5-8 people so it took forever to kill the champs. I still got about 10k karma per hour, but that was with boosters. The gold is alright, probably on par with frostgorge if it gets some more popularity and you get a good zerg going.

What…? I don’t even. EoTM isn’t meant to be some farming spot you can go to to collect loot.

Sakri.7234:

It’ll probably cost gems and be a consumable. Permanent one extremely rare drop in bl chests.

It’s sad how big the chance is that this is gonna be true.

JohnnySupernova.9182:

-weapon rates have been lowered

Fractal weapons don’t drop less now. Because you can get a fractal weapon + ascended weapon/armor chest in 1 daily chest.

Ayrilana.1396:

It’s the same at the same difficulty level as it was before. The only thing that was changed is that now the exploiters actually have to do the simple mechanics of the gates/floor panels instead of bypass them completely to get to the final cage. For those that do it the correct way, they would not notice anything different.

‘simple mechanics’. Are we talking about fractal 49/50? Cause those are in no way ‘simple’.

Kinda stupid that they fix all exploits, and yet still keep the fractal stupidly long. Also they haven’t even fixed the ‘invulnerable’ glitch yet on the dredge that spawn at the clowncar.

Zera Allimatti.2541:

So long story short, Magic Find is a fake stat to give the less fortunate a sliver of hope. I have well over 100% MF and it does absolutely NOTHING. It’s all RNG, better known as luck. Even if you had 1000% MF, you still might NEVER get a precursor drop.

Do yourself a favor and pretend Magic Find doesn’t exist (because it doesn’t). Just play the game and keep hating the lucky ones and the ones who implemented this travesty against humanity that is RNG.

Why hate on RNG? You want every mob to drop a precursor?

Delvoire.8930:

Mochann.5298:

FrozenStarRo.7240:

Mochann.5298:

I love PVErs, they’re so cute in how scared they are of coming face to face with competition.

I’m sorry. What competition is that? WvW is no different than champ trains. It all comes down to it being mindless zerging. I’ve been in the EotM and all I’ve seen is groups conquering objectives, avoiding each other, losing the objectives (on purpose!) then reconquering them, all along just by fighting the AI, for the loots.

Exactly. And yet, for some reason, PVErs are allergic to WvW like the plague. It’s like they’ll have a heart attack the moment they see a player with red text over their heads.

Some people just don’t want to do PvP. That shouldn’t be forced upon them nor should they be looked at differently because of this.

Most games have PvP sections or servers dedicated to that function. Thus making people who don’t enjoy that aspect of a game to never have to do it. ANET is forcing it upon people though with putting a Living Story aspect in there.

If you never gathered ever in the game and they forced that upon you, would you have a legitimate reason to be upset?

They’re not forcing you to do anything. Legendaries are optional.

I noticed this too. I kinda liked it.

I don’t think they were ever on sale. But you could get a 40% discount if you gifted one for a friend. In most people’s cases that meant splitting the discount 50/50 and both receiving a 20% discount in a sense.

I think it will be a long time before there will be another sale though.

Have yet to experience it’s wrath. But that does sound kinda imba. Should be looked into.

Xenon.4537:

Zylonite.5913:

I found 50 dusks yesterday and have 112% MF….it is RNG

Pics or lies.

In a sense, he is claiming the exact same thing that the OP is claiming. It IS RNG.

Khisanth.2948:

Getting 2 ore and sprocket in the same swing.

That’s not the ‘extra’ ore. That’s a normal property of a rich iron ore vein. The ‘extra’ ore would have to popup on the side, together with a normal ore and a sprocket. It has to pop up like this:
Ore
Ore
Sprocket

I’ve not even gotten the following with 1 mine swing since using the Watchwork Sprocket pick:
Ore
Ore

Legendaries shouldn’t have been tradeable in the first place. This is a good step into the right direction where Legendaries actually require you to achieve something. Rather than mindlessly farming gold.

But I think that it’s probably too late for that already anyway.

Same here haha, Every match there is at least ~10 people at our own starting bridge who put a cata down and wasting supply. I’m guilty of this too cause I want all the achievements. But it’s a pretty bad design. We’ll see people doing this for 1-2 weeks before they all get their achievement.

I like this idea. And it keeps the cultural armor cultural.

It used to be a bug that was discovered. But Arenanet admitted that it’s ‘working as intended’ because it promotes gemstore usage.

In anyway, it works. And I’m glad they didn’t change it.

There should be a way to reset traits I think. Even if it’s somewhat costly as to avoid manipulation (stuff like: “oh, we’re going for golem rush now, let me retrait quickly” should be avoided).

Maybe be able to retrait once per month.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Juclesia Elcritian.8410:

DeWolfe.2174:

Any open world chest, like a JP’s chest, gives some Empyreal’s to lvl 80’s. It’s a farmable item for certain.

Not completely true. A ton of open world chests do not give fragments. Including puzzle chests like the Hidden Garden, and the chest behind the Champion Krait in Sparkfly Fen near Tequatl. Also Diessa Plateau – only 1 of the chests there seems to give fragments, and there’s at least 3 puzzles…

Also, 10 mins of concentrated jumping for 2-4 fragments is hardly a decent way to make fragments.

You farm them by parking toons at the end of the puzzles, I believe.

That is a really slow way of farming them. Believe me, I’ve parked 7 alts at a chest at one point. The best way to farm these are to do dungeons. Each path gives 20.

How did we get to these though? I thought the topic was about Dragonite Ore.
On a sidenote, more Dragonite Ore is being added for taking over Keeps/towers in WvW with thuesday’s patch.

It will come. Don’t worry.

Mahaedros.7085:

I’m really unsure how it’s all going to work with account bound Wxp. My characters are all ranked up in various levels/ranks with not one of them significantly way out ahead of the others. I like to play whichever profession I feel like playing that day.

So I think account Wxp is going to be a great thing but I would like to prepare for it…

Should i play the highest ranked toons until this comes in ? or rank up the lowest?

I still have those WvW rank boosters saved and haven’t spent one of the yet…

My guess is that, like with the wallet implementation, you’ll need to log on every character with WxP and it gets added to a total WxP pool. Anything else is just a kick in the kitten for people that have leveled multiple alts in WvW.

So.. will this patch include account bound WXP? With a WvW update it looks fitting. But I don’t want to get my hopes up for nothing. I’ve been waiting for it for a while now and I can’t wait for when it goes live. Can’t find anything about it in the announcement post.

Are you on wifi?

Zaxares.5419:

Taken from reddit: http://i.imgur.com/Ec9fh1X.jpg

Apparently the claim that the Watchwork Pick does not return extra ore in one strike is false. We really do need the devs to come out and explain exactly how the Pick works; everything so far is just anecdotal evidence.

That was me posting it, but did you also read what it said below it?

“Thats not the bonus ore. Thats a specific characteristic of Iron (and lower) rich nodes where a normal tick gives two ore in a stack. I am referring to getting two separate ore from a single hit as per regular ore nodes.”

I haven’t gotten an ‘extra’ ore popup yet since using this mining pick. This shows up as 2 seperate ores on the side of the screen.

Shakkara.2641:

Tolmos.8395:

Could someone post the description of the molten pick that stated that it was the best, would always be the best, and no infinite pick would ever come after it that had better features? I can’t find that anywhere. :-\

The massive pricetag of 12 euros implied it. I certainly didn’t expect them to come out with a better tool less than a year later.

You cannot honestly expect players to pay 36 euros per year, or 3 euros per month, for what is basically a subscription fee for the best-in-slot harvesting tools?

You got what you paid for. And it is still working like it’s intended.

Amineo.8951:

Oh really? I’m sorry dude but, camping and prevent any random ’’foe’’ from entering the server is luck, people who have time to sit there for 4 days is luck of not having time to spare for other things, you got lucky because you had many dudes that had no time to spare aside GW2 for 4 days. I respect Desolation for their victory, i just said that they didn’t won only because the people there were sitting hard (even though it depends on persons and individuals, some can do better in a couple of hours, but it’s very rare) for 4 days, but also because they were lucky to have these guys.

Yes. We were very lucky to have such dedicated players that had (or made) the time to kill the wurm. Not many other servers have this.

I’d like to know this myself. I bought 2 picks and if it does then I actually would rather use Orichalcum Mining Picks instead.

Then again, the 20% chance to mine Watchwork Sprockets isn’t advertised either. There might be some definite bugs going on with these mining picks.

p.s. I haven’t seen an ‘extra’ bonus ore since I’ve started using this mining pick. But that could be just RNG.

Tolmos.8395:

Could someone post the description of the molten pick that stated that it was the best, would always be the best, and no infinite pick would ever come after it that had better features? I can’t find that anywhere. :-\

Amen.

Aberrant.6749:

Charming Rogue.8071:

I salvaged well in the thousands of exotics (ranging in between level 70-79). The rate seems to be 1:4 (or 25%). Meaning for every 4 exotics you salvage you get 1 Glob of Dark matter. Sometimes you get 1, sometimes 3, that’s just RNG. But I had well over 2 stacks of ecto for every 1 stack of glob of dark matter. I’ll agree that the droprate is a bit low, but you don’t need that many. I still have a few stacks in the bank and I wouldn’t know what to do with them.

I used Mystic Salvage Kits for all of them.

Did you save them or dump them?

“I still have a few stacks in the bank.”, I used a lot for crafting. So I saved them. I’m hoping they will be used for precursor crafting or something like that in the future.

Kamui.3150:

• Offer the meta reward, AFTER the event is over, as a gem store item. That way you can still pay to access it, but only if you’re either unable to get the meta, or join the game after the event is already gone. This gives nobody a real Pay 2 Win advantage, as it’s the exact same upgrade you get from completing the meta.

I like this idea, but some items should still have some exclusivity. If you weren’t there to do the meta, then tough luck.

Kamui.3150:

• Put an account-wide upgrade that gives these % drops when using any infinite tool of the right type. Namely once purchased, you would then be able to get sprockets with any of the current or future picks. This lets the picks themselves retain the same functionality, and players can pick the skin they want, and also not need to clog up bank space with the excess tools.

Horrible idea. This doesn’t negate the fact that items in the gemstore should be COSMETIC only. Or like the Unlimited picks/Salvage kits a convenience item (using them will not make you richer in any way, because they cost so many gems to buy and the equivalent items you can get in game are really cheap).
If other infinite mining picks gained the same 20% chance to mine Watchwork Sprockets then it will still be a pay-to-win item. The only way to not make it so is to add mining picks of the same caliber that can be acquired in-game through cheap methods (so the infinite one does not give more loot).

Kamui.3150:

• Same as above, but have specific tools bonus inherently. So say the Watchwork Pick works as it does now, but by buying the account-wide upgrade, you can then have that bonus apply to all your picks.

Same as above, this would still be a pay-to-win item. Keep in mind that I bought 2 Watchwork picks, and I still classify it as a pay-to-win item. There’s just no going around it.

Asmodeus.5782:

Well, it’s hard to respond in any way except ‘lol, because we could’. They’ve basically cheated all players who bought the infinite tools before. I got 7 sets. I should know. ;D

They didn’t cheat you. You got what you paid for. When you buy a new car for a specific price, and a few months later you see the same car with extra features for the same price, do you also feel cheated then? No. This is the way the economy works.

Aye.8392:

If one pick has the ability to generate sprockets then every pick of a certain level, whether bought through the gemstore or purchased from a vendor in the game, should have that same ability.

If this ability exists on a gemstore item then Ori picks should also generate sprockets at the same percentage chance.

This is the only fair solution I can think of. Or removing the extra % all together.

Amineo.8951:

Wurms head in phase 2 needs 3min instead of 2 at the very least, Anet have to understand that Desolation victory is based on luck too, that’s why they have trouble killing the wurms again, we don’t want to kill it only once, but everyday like Tequatl, we definitely need more time for the heads.

One more thing I’d like to add is that I also heard several people say on deso teamspeak that they actually took days of work in order to fight the wurms. To attribute the world’s first kill to luck is actually an insult to all these people as well.

I salvaged well in the thousands of exotics (ranging in between level 70-79). The rate seems to be 1:4 (or 25%). Meaning for every 4 exotics you salvage you get 1 Glob of Dark matter. Sometimes you get 1, sometimes 3, that’s just RNG. But I had well over 2 stacks of ecto for every 1 stack of glob of dark matter. I’ll agree that the droprate is a bit low, but you don’t need that many. I still have a few stacks in the bank and I wouldn’t know what to do with them.

I used Mystic Salvage Kits for all of them.

Lower graphics, or buy more RAM. This has to do with memory. I had the same problem, I bought more RAM and it fixed it.

Amineo.8951:

Wurms head in phase 2 needs 3min instead of 2 at the very least, Anet have to understand that Desolation victory is based on luck too, that’s why they have trouble killing the wurms again, we don’t want to kill it only once, but everyday like Tequatl, we definitely need more time for the heads.

The victory was in no way, shape or form, based on luck. We killed it because we had the same ~200-ish people camping bloodtide coast for 4 days in a row. Trying to kill it every 2 hours. Commanders slept for 4-5 hours and went back at it again early in the morning. Everyone got familiar with the mechanics of their own wurm. Due to this the majority of people don’t even have their Wurmslayer achievement yet, because they were practicing their craft at only 1 wurm.

We trained hard and accomplished our goals. The problem now is that all the other deso players saw the “Worlds first” post and are now flocking towards bloodtide coast in order to leech of our hard work and trying to coastline along it to complete their achievement progress. I don’t mind the people that are coming on ts and want to learn the wurms and are actually trying to succeed, but the fact of the matter is… with these wurms you can’t just go in there and hope for the best. You have to be experienced with the different wurm attacks, when to dodge, the buffs, the debuffs, the double damage spots, when to pop Embers, when to pop conjure weapons (and where), when to pick them up (always! Which is not done enough by new players), etc etc.

We get to the 2nd wurm phase very consistently, but I see so many people getting downed at the 2nd phase because they lack the experience to dodge the wurm attacks (or even anticipate where it’s going to go to next in order to be in range to DPS it). People have to res the downed and that takes seconds. It is those few precious seconds that are the difference between killing it, and waiting for another 2 hours for the next spawn.

This is the reason why we haven’t killed it again. We don’t have the same experienced players. Guesters aren’t even the big problem because they rarely get in.

(And don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to sound elitist that only the hardcore ‘crew’ that was there at the start must have access to the wurm. I welcome all new players that are serious about killing the wurm. I’m just stating the facts on why we haven’t killed it yet, and why the kill wasn’t based on luck at all, but purely hard dedicated work).

+1

Would certainly beat the crap out of spamming the “Join In X” feature.