Guild Wars 2

To be fair, these crafting materials are still dirt cheap. I had 4k Bolts of Silk, and only made about 4g profit.

Florgknight.1589:

That appeared after I died. I was one of the last ones alive. If I got loot while downed I would’ve rallied, but it appeared after I died. Also our spawn is on hillsside.

Use the waypoint faster It will spawn underneath you even when you’re on the other side of the map.

Jayne.9251:

Aoe loot button keyed helps, spam that as you are going down.

The problem with spamming it, is that you always STOP midrun while attacking the zerg to do the finisher motion. This has got to be the most annoying thing in the world. I’ve actually stopped looting during zergs to avoid this and just run back whenever the fight is over.

Tough luck if the fight is in a keep and you lose it though.

SRG.3607:

Concerning your suggestions i don’t see the point to have this in the Hero panel (that’s just personnal preferences maybe).

I rather really would like on my side to have one (or maybe two) mini slots next to the skill bar (on the main interface screen) to put whaever you can click on that you would like to use anytime. A mini-pet. A potion. A food consummable.

Oh god, please yes. This! Especially a slot for the minipet. Or just keep it ‘equipped’ so it’s always out whatever minipet you have equipped at the time.

While I agree that Ascended gear goes against everything GW stands for (cosmetic grind ONLY), I’d like to inform you that I leveled up my crafting disciplines with way less than 200g per craft (and no, I didn’t ‘gather the materials myself’, anyone who uses this argument has no grasp on basic economics).

That guide you linked is really bad and tells you to craft the most expensive recipes. What I did was:
From 400-425 refine Ori/Wood (You can sell this back to TP at essentially no loss)
425-450, the hard part. Discover all sigils/runes/potions that you can, do the more expensive recipes last.
450-475, refine ascended materials that you need for ascended weapons
475-490, Discover all the recipes that you haven’t yet, blues, masterwork, rares, everything. Every level 1-400 recipe there is, discovery gives exp for everyting. This will get you to around 490 or more.
490-500, Discover 3-4 exotics.

By this formula I spend around 20g per craft, and that’s mostly cause of the exotics I needed for the last 10 levels.

That being said, it still costs 50g per weapon to craft. I have 8 alts. I’m not even gonna do the math to get every single weapon ascended for every character, but it’s a lot. More than I’m willing to farm.

Bottom line is, I agree. Ascended shouldn’t have become part of the game. Ascended should’ve been awesome looking weapons that cost the same as they do now, but with no actual stat increase. I feel like they had to introduce ‘something’ for us to spend our gold on though, or inflation would become a huge problem.

Ever since the release of the LFG tool, I have been unable to search for friends. It used to be when you typed in a name, it would show only that name. But now when I start typing in the box it doesn’t do anything.

I have the same bug, I get it as soon as it’s done building but I’m there stuck in the “building animation”. I can get it to reset by using “Blurred Frenzy” or “Blink”.

Quite annoying though.

These are the basics that any commander must do. Communication. Without it you might as well tag off.

KorKor.9452:

I can get the last years skins being offered again this year being a little high but it is a little bit much in my opinion. Though I disagree with the bloody prince mini being so bloody high and such a short time frame to obtain him in as well. I mean there are rare drop world mini’s and event mini’s that have passed cheaper then that bloody mini it is a ripoff.

As a mini collector who already got shafted from last years Christmas mini RNG fest and I can never obtain the mini sparkles due to it’s kittened requirements. It really irks me having yet another out of my reach if I want to do anything else in the game besides go for it and it alone.

What are you talking about? If you buy all the candy corn from TP this mini is still cheaper than some of the other uber rare mini’s on the TP. If you really want it, farm the gold and buy it. Why whine about something that is in EVERY MMORPG.

I went for the clover recipe, and have 150 clovers now. I used the 10 recipe and spend about 250 ecto’s. The cool part about it, is that when I sold all the leftover mats I came out with a 15g profit (for some reason I had 20-30 t6 mats return with only 10 ecto’s used).

Not sure if I’m extremely lucky, but just wanted to throw it out there. At current t6 mat prices, and with a bit of luck, you’ll break even or even come out with a profit using the 10 recipe.

Actually, on second thought, I’m extremely lucky getting the clovers. Cause I got most of them at the end, I also could’ve gotten nothing. Then again, the only limited factor is karma and skill points, because when you don’t get clovers, you get mats you can sell and you hardly lose gold.

Grats!
No way in heck I’m going for that title, but I wouldn’t mind if it awarded at least a title for the people that do have it. Seems fair, 5 legendaries is no easy feat. Whether you’re grinding for gold, or flip the market, it takes time and skill to achieve it. Not everyone can get that amount of gold even if their life depended on it.

You have to have used the Ram and hit the gate at least once. I’ve got credit for this achievement when I hit the gate once with the Ram and another guy took over and destroyed the gate.

It’s pretty stupid, cause now everyone that doesn’t have Ram Mastery will want to hog the Ram to get the achievement.

I know everyone has been complaining about a wave of “pve” players coming to WvW, so this message is to all of you new players. I know you’re all hunting for achievements to complete your meta (and get more achievement points). You’ll get a key as a reward to open a chest that will be rewarded at the end of the season and you can open it for shiny items.

What you have to realize though, is that in order to get the best shinies, your server has to place high in the rankings. We all know the long queue times to get in, this means that there are only limited spots. And when you do finally get in, if you want to get the best rewards at the end of the season, you have to make sure your server does well. This means following the calls of the commander, read mapchat, ask where you’re needed, bring supplies and use them when asked for it, if there’s a teamspeak server get on it. All these things will help getting things more organized and will guarantee the success of your server. Work together to get higher rewards.

What I’m trying to make you realize is that there’s no point in getting in WvW, farming your achievements, and then never showing your face again and hope your server does well. It’s much better to get on and support your server, and in the end, you’ll be rewarded for your ‘selfless’ acts.

tl;dr: Don’t hog WvW queue spots and be useless. Put an effort in trying to make sure your world succeed, and you will be rewarded personally.

Gamadorn.2659:

Zylonite.5913:

The skill lag in WvW is not Anet’s fault. It is a core latency problem in distributed system and latency between network nodes and the client/server side.

Be glad that there is a game that allows 300 people on one map from 2-3 different continents all a the same time. Even a normal multiplayer game with 16 players on the map has lag on a 100Mbits network and dedicated servers.

So try to enjoy the game because the skill lag on a full queued map is not going to be fixed and it out of any software developer hands.

Apparently you don’t understand skill lag or you would know, it has nothing to do with coordinating where people are or distributed networks and latency, it is purely a CPU processing/memory issue. When a lot of people get together and start to try to use a number of abilities at the same time….there are a lot of calculations that get run, (Position coordinates for each player, who gets hit by what, who dodged what etc.) Along with all the damage calculations….hard damage, condition damage….etc. When that happens, it causes a strain on processing power of the server…at a certain point the server can no longer register new abilities because it’s overloaded….thus everyone who is connected that box/server (aka people on the map) cannot use skill abilities until the resources are freed up…nothing to do with people in different countries etc.

Edit: While yes, getting the coordinates from the client and relaying it to the server does take a minuscule amount of time..it is not the bottle neck that ends up causing the skill lag

So why don’t they just get servers with faster cpu’s?

I don’t like it. Like I said, I can hardly tag mobs. Not as many as with GS. Less tagging also means you’re providing for less overall damage in the zerg. That being said, I’m usually swinging my sword more with Blurred Frenzy in zergs, than equipped with GS. I only use GS to attack ppl that are far to put them in combat mode.

Maybe I’ll try Staff + Sword/Pistol (or Focus) combo. See how that works out. The staff is nice survivability, but I’m not sure about the usefulness when I’m build for damage and not conditions. I’ll give it a try.

tbh, the only skill that truly shines in Staff is Chaos Storm (and to a degree, Chaos Armor) for me, the rest is kinda meh. GS izeker does a nice AoE cripple from 1200 range to catch up to people. Mind Stab for removing Stability, iwave for CC. GS is pretty good, not just for damage.

EDIT: I’ve tried Staff + Sword/Pistol(Focus), it’s alright. Chaos Storm is amazing in zergs and gives great support, but I just miss iZerker so much :P Also, staff #1 is pretty useless without condition damage.

I have the same problem

Butter.3024:

Charming Rogue.8071:

I’m currently a frontline Mesmer, facing against AM and Gandara. I’m full zerk, but almost never die in zergs. Cause of dodge + distortion (sword #2 skill). I also use Superior Sigil of Stamina which resets my stamina every kill. And you can already guess, in zergs you get kills all the time. Basically I can dodge infinitely.

Though I have problems when I don’t get kills and have to usually retreat to midline caster. Thinking about changing my zerk armor for Knight’s or something. But it’s gonna be really expensive if I have to buy another 6 runes of the traveler. So I’m kinda hesitant.

build?

10/20/0/30/10

III
X/IV (or V for more survivability)
IV/II/XI
III

But this build isn’t really optimal when there’s loads of skill lag. It’s build around having insane illusion damage, but with skill lag (or big zergs in general) your illusions will only live to do 1 attack, or die before they even have a chance to do that.

I’ve been messing around with this, and it’s working pretty well:
0/20/30/20/0
X/IV (or V for more stealth)
III/V/XII
II/IV

Veil+Blink on both builds, the 3rd is optional (usually Portal). Though Decoy works well with the second build due to the XII (Prismatic Understanding). Together with Veil and Mass invis grants great survivability.

And like I said, full zerk gear. Mesmer’s can kinda get away with it cause of their great survivability skills. Just don’t run full force into big zergs and you’re good. Dodge out when you’re taking too much damage and retreat a bit to the mid/backline until the zerg targets someone else, then go in again.

GS +
Sword/Focus (CC for zergs)
or Sword/Pistol (for roaming+solo battles)

kubetz.3058:

Charming Rogue.8071:

Thinking about changing my zerk armor for Knight’s or something. But it’s gonna be really expensive if I have to buy another 6 runes of the traveler. So I’m kinda hesitant.

If you are in full zerker and trying to get more survability, what about keeping your zerker armor and getting PVT trinkets for karma? You won’t have to buy another set of traveler rules that way.

Yeah I guess that would be better. thx

Easy fix, make it stackable with an internal cooldown of ~10 seconds (or however long TC lasts, too lazy to look it up).

And yes, it’s very annoying that they still haven’t addressed this.

I’m currently a frontline Mesmer, facing against AM and Gandara. I’m full zerk, but almost never die in zergs. Cause of dodge + distortion (sword #2 skill). I also use Superior Sigil of Stamina which resets my stamina every kill. And you can already guess, in zergs you get kills all the time. Basically I can dodge infinitely.

Though I have problems when I don’t get kills and have to usually retreat to midline caster. Thinking about changing my zerk armor for Knight’s or something. But it’s gonna be really expensive if I have to buy another 6 runes of the traveler. So I’m kinda hesitant.

Boost with Mad King Says maybe?

DarcShriek.5829:

Rozbuska.5263:

Well blame Anet for infinite AP reward from this minigame.

No blame the players for their bad behavior. It’s time you held players responsible for their behavior rather than blame Anet.

OP, report the players for harassing you. They will hopefully receive a temp ban.

You can’t blame the players for getting rewarded for this behavior. Do it faster, receive more rewards. The game developer should put restrictions in place to prevent this behavior.
It’s like giving a child candy, telling him not to eat it and then leaving the room. He’s going to eat that candy, I can promise you that.

Faowri.4159:

Saw a commander in the Labyrinth today yelling for people not to activate the door events until the zerg arrived. Play the way you want to, and don’t let the farmers dictate the rules of the game. If they try to, abusively, then report and block.

That’s pretty kitten selfish of you. As a zerg we come together as a community, to gain equal rewards for everyone. In this scenario you’re just stealing all the rewards for yourself, unwilling to share. Or you could stay ignorant and “just be playing the game”.

I find that phrase quite annoying. But yes, it’s right outside the TP company.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Celestina.2894:

Lilius.9850:

AnotherNinja.8534:

I love Lunatic Inquisition, but it seems every game I get into now people are spamming mad king says. It’s not really fair when a ghost can just sit back and spam that skill until you do the emote, get killed by the amount of times they can use it, or they catch up to you from the stun. At the moment it is way too OP, the game mode is fun, but getting killed from spam is annoying.

Thanks for reading!

You know what’s OP?

The fact ALL the villagers can get hammers and completely destroy the ghost…

Funny, when I’m a ghost and see a group like that I see free kills.

Fear —-> choose a target —-> Mad King Says —-->Repeat

Depends on how many you’re dealing with and how coordinated they are. if they trade off chaining 2, and smashing you while you’re down, game over. yes you respawn, but in the few seconds of lag between respawn and ability to respond, they can smash you down again. it’s quite fun to watch.

Spam dodge, problem solved.

To be honest, villagers can’t win. Ghost are just way too strong.
They kill you in 2-3 hits, they have fear, stuns, can force you to stop from long range. They have a legalized wallhack.
If you can’t win as ghosts, you fail pretty hard.

I always got the achievement to count if I placed on the top 10 scoreboard, meaning I killed a lot of humans (2-3 minimum) while in ghost form.

I’ve also tried running around doing basically nothing, and I got no count towards the achievement at all (for like 15+ games).

Seems like it’s working as intended, but the achievement info is misleading. You just have to participate and get some scores.

Hope this helps.

I want this! gief

I’m not sure how that duping exploit thing went, but people were able to dupe items. Maybe they also duped precursors?

Newsflash, candy corns won’t drop to 1copper each. As soon as they reach the 6-7c mark, people will start putting up buy orders. Cause it will be 9-10g per 20 slot bag. And it has the bragging rights of people pinging it in LA mapchat. People won’t mind spending 10g on a ‘limited time bag’, even though they cost the same as regular ones.

Mark my words, you will NOT get a 20 slot bag cheaper than the current 10g pricing. If there is no update or anything done about the requirements.

kitten it. I just crafted my own 20 slot bags. Cheaper than this candy corn stuff.

Keep dreaming…

15.000 candy corns. Which means, they need to be at 7 copper each to buy a 20 slot bag for ~10g.

uhm… what. I somehow knew this would happen though.

Devilsmack.5736:

Anyone knows what is needed for the 20-slot bags? I’m at work and can’t check.

15.000 candy corns. Which means, they need to be at 7 copper each to buy a 20 slot bag for ~10g.

Uhm.. why don’t you try it before posting on the forums?

Account bound means you can pass it through between characters. No “soulbound on use” would mean that you can equip it without making it soulbound (so you can still pass it on to other characters).

The Fractal skins have this same property.

Maybe that’s how they wanted it in the first place. The farmers/hardcore players that have all the gold to buy the timegated items will login every day anyway. How else did they get all that gold? Whereas it gets the casuals to login every day.

One thing they forgot is that ascended costs so much, most casuals don’t even try and just ignore it all together.

Only arenanet can answer that question though.

And another +1 here for morrolan. It’s like he has read my mind.

Who knows, but do you really thing they’ll be giving out 20 slot bags for free basically, if you consider candy corns were 1-2c each during last holiday event? I think there won’t be so much excess of candy corn as there was last year.

Ethics.4519:

The people who whine are the ones who join a speedrun group because they want their group to go very fast. They don’t want zerk gear though and just wanna play the way they want. They mainly want to get carried by the speedrun group, but don’t want to contribute.

These people can post their own party “AC party, non-zerk builds welcome” And do it with like minded people. But then it takes longer and they get upset.

Then they get kicked from a speedrun group and come to the dungeon forums to call us elitist.

This.

Sounds good, but it needs some failsafe way to work. Or else I’ll just buy a new account, run 2 instances of gw2 and make new alts every time for the extra rewards.

Traveller.7496:

The best analogy I can make here is that GW2 will be like a Final Fantasy game. Shares same names, locations and concepts, but is fundamentally different than its predecessor(s) and it might even be unfair to expect a full sequel.

Seriously, after I adapted that thought model, I became much less jaded about GW2 failing to meet GW1 expections.

I think this is what we all must realize. GW1 is dead and is never coming back, GW2 is not a replacement. I always hoped that with every update they would ‘fix’ GW2 and add Heroes Ascent, GvG, Guild Halls, cosmetic grind only, and pretty much everything I LOVED about GW1. But I now realize that I must let this dream go.

R. I. P. in peace GW1, 2012. You will be missed.

Antara.3189:

I cannot believe I’m saying this, and I’m sure Vayne would smile at this comment but,

It’s time to move on from the GW1 days. They were great and I remember them fondly. (Frolicking through the Ascalonian daisys before the searing.. anyways), times have changed, and so has Tyria. Keep the spirit true and be thankful you took part in a niche community.

Cheers

I just want my GW1 days back… it hurts so much :’( HA, GVG, build variety… whyyyyyyy!!111

Kuzletti.9175:

Meh, leveling one of the crafts all the way to 500 to make an ascended weapon just to get rid of them just doesn’t seem worth it. I suppose I’ll just have to delete some of them, as they’ll no doubt become a problem in time, thanks anyways. :/

You can ‘get rid’ of them at level 450, as that’s the level you need to refine them.

vicious.5683:

StinVec.3621:

Lopez.7369:

Shiren.9532:

I may have gotten this but 800 gems is far too much for this kind of content. That’s like a monthly subscription and I don’t think that’s worth a month in subscription fees.

What you said is completely contradictory. If you bought it, it’s priced correctly. That’s how supply and demand works.

They didn’t say that they bought it, they said that they may have been interested in buying it had it not been as expensive as it is, that had it been less expensive they’d have probably picked one up.

That is also in line with my feelings on the subject of Infinite Gathering Tools; I don’t mind “Soulbound on Use”, but at 800 Gems each…thanks, but no thanks. If they were 200 Gems each I’d be buying dozens of them. At 800 I won’t even be buying one.

Again, ArenaNet…people are more willing to make many smaller amount purchases over a single larger one, even if it ends up costing more in the long run. At 200 Gems each, I’d happily spend 6000 gems to outfits 10 characters with a single set of Infinite Gathering Tools, instead I’m spending no gems.

I’d also have no problem with buying additional versions of the infinite tools on each of those 10 characters when they are released or made available. I’d swap out to whichever I felt like using at the time. So also buying each variation of each Infinite Gathering Tool across 10 characters would really add up.

Infinite Gathering Tools
10 Characters
3 Infinite Tools Each
3 Variations of Each Tool (when made available)
18,000 – # of Gems I’d spend @ 200 Gems per tool
22,500 – # of Gems I’d spend @ 250 Gems per tool
ZERO – # of Gems I’ve spent and will ever spend on Infinite Tools that cost 800 Gems Each

And that’s just on Infinite Gathering Tools and not even getting into what would have been spent on pieces from a single set of Gem Armor had armor pieces been sold individually in the gem store instead of as full sets.

99% of marketing is psychology.

Anet want people to buy gems with $ not gold. Your argument is invalid.

He never stated that he would use gold instead of money ($). Your counter-argument is invalid.

Khorrax.2108:

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

It better not come back… I don’t mind if they offer new weapons but in no way shape or form should the old ones come back… They should be limited edition to be owned by the priviledged few who were there for the original event and busted their tails to get it…

I really hope those weapons return just to spite this guy.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure we’ll be able to craft those weapons again. I remember reading something related to that.

You’re forgetting that the Ghastly Grinning shield dropped from Mad King Chests and wasn’t craftable in the first place.

Mirta.5029:

Imagine a completely new person walking their way into Orr. Imagine the rage that would be generated by the said person on the forums. Levels serve their purpose as a tutorial with increasing difficulty.

Orr is at the other side of the world, don’t you think when people get there they would have at least killed some other mobs, or… I dunno, did the story that actually leads you there?

I agree with OP, taking away levels would’ve been an interesting idea. It certainly would make rolling a new character less tedious, cause you wouldn’t have to level them up from 1-80.

Mortifer.2946:

It definitely looks genuine… I am pretty excited that I will finally be able to craft my legendary GS.

ilr.9675:

LOL…. so you basically have to be Grandmaster Crafter….

…which costs even more than just buying the Precursor off the TP….

“Shooping” debate aside, this possibility is very likely.

Not at all. I spent like 50g on weaponsmith from 400 to 500. Weaponsmith from 1 to 400 is cheap.

You’re forgetting all the mats you used that were in your bank. That you could’ve sold on the TP if you didn’t use them for crafting. That’s all gold that you crafted away, even though you gathered it on your own.

Astral Projections.7320:

Possibly you can’t sell it because it’s a gem store item.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Winter's_Arc_Short_Bow_Skin

I can’t think of anything you can buy with gems that you can sell. It’s all account bound iirc. Maybe this is still account bound even if it doesn’t say so.

Check TP. The Winter weapons are listed. Some people are able to sell them.

Ulion.5476:

Aberrant.6749:

I’ve been telling people to stock up on it for a while. Guildies, friends, people on the forums etc. Some of them are starting to do it now… most still aren’t doing it at all. I’m just one person and my guild/friends could be atypical… but from general knowledge of the player base, I don’t think so. I don’t think that people have fully realized how bad (or in my case good) it’s going to get.

My first post:

Been telling my guild since ascended weapons came out the price of cloth will triple once ascended armor comes out. No way to increase the supply of cloth on the market other than farming mobs. The cloth market is very finite in supply and cloth is use for ALL armor types.

You will still need to craft dozen of exotic to max armor crafts. Cloth is the common item for crafting exotic armor. Their will be no way to reduce the price of gossamer unlike orichalcum which people are heavily mining now.

Salvage, bags, tier promotion, etc.

You’re saying it like having the title “Dungeon Master” means something. It’s not like people will go: “oh, he has dungeon master title. He must be pro.”

I would sell my firstborn for this armor piece:
http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/9451224BG24.png