Guild Wars 2

I’m just wondering what’s up? A guildy told me and a brief browse through the forums seems to confirm that there was a chest nerf or something?

I’m just confused at what’s going on… I used to run ac 1,2,3, cof 1,2, se 1,3, hotw 1, and sometimes coe 1,2,3 and arah 1,2,3 daily for a lot of gold rewards. It was how I farmed my first legendary. I loved farming dungeons, it was fun, I felt like the diversity helped keep the grind/boring factor down and doing it so often felt really good.

Lately whenever I look in the lfg system I rarely if ever see groups for dungeons anymore. Maybe a few here and there. I heard they also increased some difficulty (haven’t really noticed except the troll in hotw1).

I’m just wondering where all the farmers went? There were a ton no matter what time of the day and lately they are hard to find.

Also any recommendations on a new farming spot? Maybe orr temple chains or world bosses? Can’t imagine that being better than dungeon runs but who knows.

So I’m wondering if this is a bug or not or is supposed to do this… when i wield my incinerator (or dual doesn’t matter) my toon is surrounded by a fire arua and it doesn’t go away. It was cool at first but makes it hard to see to play.

Anierna.6918:

I’ve just done the math for how the Ferocity change will impact the Ele fire staff meta build and each of the s/x LH meta builds. My calculations are here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-zwZEZiI96obGRzVXFvS3owX0k/edit?usp=sharing

This takes into account: ferocity changes to gear and Air trait line, no more stacking perception/bloodlust, equalization in food/banners/LH bonus, 2nd sigil for the fire staff build. This assumes that Arcane Lightning will remain as-is (Anet hasn’t said anything about this, so I’m hoping it won’t be nerfed).

tl;dr: The nerf is between 17% and 21% for each build.

what’s a good build to be running post patch?

Anyone know any good builds, weapons, traits etc? I had a decent fire staff w/ might stacking build and would use conjure weapons as utilities slots, heard they nerfed the crit though so not sure if ice bow and fgs are even worth using still or not?

reapex.8546:

That is kinda unfortunate imo but it works thanks

disagrees strongly, thanks anet

So I admit at lv 55 I’m still pretty much clueless about my engineer. I don’t know what weapon sets to run (usually dual pistols or rifle), what stats to go for, or what build, utilities or traits to use.

Normally I’m using 2 turrets (rocket and gun) and the elixer that allows you to run faster and gain fury etc. Also not sure which elite skill is best.

Does my weapon set even matter if I’m supposed to be using flamethrower or grenades, which I also am clueless about. Would like something dps wise to get to 80 (unless their is a much easier choice) then something useful for dungeons and world meta events etc.

Kumu Honua.2751:

It’s not that you aren’t heavy. It’s that you are a ranger. The class played by generally bad players overall. Doesn’t matter if you are the best ranger in the world. Faster to just dump you and not take the chance. You can be a mesmer if you want. Or an elementalist. You don’t have to be a Warrior/Guardian.

Not necessary agreeing with the logic but this is why to the OP.

Trust me as a gw1 player who main’ed an assassin I feel your pain. Did I let all the fractions groups who didn’t let me join at first bother me? Nope I went and got my Prophecies titles, once they realized I was a good sin it became a lot easier.

I realize achievement points don’t mean much, but they do mean something. Just get a lot, try getting dungeonmaster if you can (as a thief I still randomly get kicked at the start of a group too despite being 10k ap and a dungeonmaster even though no one said only heavies or meta) maybe some elite armor or weapons (something earned like fractal backpiece or weapons comes to mind, or even arah stuff… though not as presitious as it used to be thanks to sellers)

Personally I would never kick a ranger from any dungeon other than maybe high level fractals especially if he was 6k+ ap, wasn’t bow/bear, and had an arah/fractal weapon or two… unless we had a lot of rangers or just a bad group comp, in which case I’d probably just not be in that group myself.

Dear anet… please don’t listen to much to the people who whine and cry and QQ on the forums to much… as we know the forums are usually all negative anyways with also the addition of trolls.

Instead please go in game and look at town chats and guild chats and pm’s, i’ve been playing all day and have seen nothing but excitement, happiness, and glowing reviews about all the new changes. Maybe one nay-sayer in 100 if that.

Reminiscent Valkyrie.3109:

Uproar. Uproar.

Just imagine a world where alts level 1 have an Eternity at fine level.

Or a person who JUST made ONE bolt wielding two immediately.

How about the people who made 2 incinerators in the past? All their efforts wasted if they went in for the skins.

Wouldn’t this devalue the motion of making a legendary if you can just skin them? Also the people who have 4 incinerators or 2 bolts or any dual wielded identical legendaries, striking these people who worked hundreds of hours or spending thousands of gold so they look different, now everyone who made 1 incinerator can immediately visually get 2 provided that they pay the price of transmutation?

It just isn’t fair.

I’m imagining this world and hate to say it but I love it! Working on eternity next which will take a lot of time… the ability to allow my guardian, warrior, ranger, or mesmer all use it sounds pretty awesome to me!

So does dual wielding my incinerators.

Your points are invalid. MMO’s do this type of thing ALL THE TIME. One month you have the epic loot the next you’re not the hottest stuff anymore, especially 1 and 1/2 years later. Most people who got dual incinerators yeah they might be mad, but they have something the rest of us don’t and that was dual wielding 2 when we didn’t. That’s an experience that can’t be taken away from them. Like in WoW you can solo or get a small team and go kill the BC raids and get the legendaries there quite easily now, that didn’t take away from the thrill or the accomplishment of those that got them during their time.

You also “conveniently” forgot to point out the benefits of owning a legendary or two. Only your main will have the stats, it will always be best in slot (BiS, pretty huge advantage when you think about it… always is a big word), and you can change its stats! Do you want zerker gear go for it, need some more defense and want it to be knights or sentinel this fight you can do that too. These things are huge. Doing fractals let’s add some agony resistance to the weapons… It’s not like those people with legendaries (myself included) are losing anything… if anything all their alts get to use their legendaries too without having to pay gems for switching them over everytime! They are gaining something great. So be quiet and stop whining so you don’t ruin it for the rest of us who would seriously enjoy it. This world you described sounds pretty amazing to me.

maestrochino.7104:

So is the wardrobe going to make it possible that you can wield 2 bolts for the cost of 1? This is going to be so unfair for those that crafted 2.

Edit: another concern, if you craft and bind sunrise and twilight, then craft eternity later, you can sell eternity for gold and keep the sunrise and twilight skins? Wow VERY unfair.

They still have the ascended (and future best in game stats always) and can change stats at will still, so they still got some benefits.

Your 2nd concern seems like the bigger problem to me. But honestly with the eternity visual changes I think people are making a bigger deal out of this then necessary, bc I think most people would still want eternity if they came that far for it. Yes they could still have twilight or sunrise skins but if they ever wanted eternity it looks like they would have to craft them again. And they would lose the stats and the ability to change stats too.

Nemoel.8720:

I think it will be, as far as I have understood. After the skin has been unlocked you can put it over any dagger as often you want as long as you have enough charges.

That’s what most people I’ve talked to seem to think

Currently key farming for unid dyes and torment weapon tickets/scraps. As a die hard gw1 player having torment weapons across all characters again will be very nice.

conradpedalo.5381:

Would this be considered an exploit to cash in on this unidye bubble?

It would be considered a smart investment… lol its perfectly safe and legal, but seeing how people have got in trouble for obvious smart investments before I don’t blame you for being concerned.

Just made a quick 40g today with just a few laurels saved up

agreed! Ty anet we <3 you guys.

but can a norn use t3 human cultural now? lol maybe ^^

would like an update on this too. specifically can my thief dual wield his one incinerator?

Did I read that right? Did anyone else question this too? It looks like say in my example I own 1 incinerator, working on my 2nd but still need the precursor and lodestones so no big deal. But it seems to say that I could dual wield it with the wardrobe patch?!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-wardrobe-system/

Collecting Weapon and Armor Skins

“For the Wardrobe, we’ve changed skins to an account-wide unlock system. Skins can be unlocked by using consumables, equipping items, salvaging equipment, or right-clicking on equipment and account-binding it. Items that you acquire that are already bound to your account automatically unlock their skin when they go into your inventory. Unlocked skins can be applied to items infinitely (for just one Transmutation Charge), which makes it much less stressful to try out a new look for your character, since you can always switch back!”

I get my offhand incinerator probably won’t be ascended stats, but free legendary skin seems epic enough for me.

idk about 15 matches straight but I do see it in about 50% of my matches… every 1 out of 2 is still very bad.

Jaxom.7310:

kirito.4138:

Don’t understand Anet’s logic if the new revamp pvp reward system isn’t ready…. why remove chest/glory from the existing system and kitten it more?

They are just phasing out the glory. This is the next step. This way you don’t receive anymore glory, but you still have time to spend all your glory.

Can you imagine the noise if they removed glory and the glory vendors at the same time? That would be loud.

Plus the balance patch isn’t ready.. blah blah blah.

except they also took out the bonus win chest in solo/team que… so now its literally impossible to get more pvp armor. Even the rank up chest I got today at lv 31 just gave me low tier mats, steel harvesting items (not even max…) and a crude (15 slot basic use lol) salvage kit…wth.

So now I just get rank points… that’s it. The gold is laughable. I can farm 20-50g easily a day just doing simple dungeons I can play all day on pvp and get basically nothing.

granted i like rank points and emotes but still.

Its not all about the glory. Its about taking away all the rewards with nothing new in its place. They should have waited till the new system was closer to being ready (like a week or two beforehand) Now we have to wait for months or longer… and have no incentive to pvp (outside of just for fun…which i do pvp still bc i enjoy it)

so i get wanting to make a new system… but i don’t get taking away all the rewards and adding nothing in its place.. maybe they should have waited to remove glory and the bonus win chests till we got something else. B/c pvp is kind of dead now on my server.

Can we get less zerg content for living story? Or at least less zerg content that groups constantly fail? I love challenges but watching other players lose and not being able to help is sad and very frustrating.

Would like more dungeons like frost/flame and aetherblade or more solo challenges like those fights in queensdale’s gauntlet… those were epic, achievable, and still challenging.

RedCobra.7693:

cinemapaula.8673:

IMO Flamekissed was great the way it was… =)

no its freakin wasnt, i blew 100g on mine for a suit and the next day people can buy it for gems, youve got to put yourself in those people positions, why cant i get asuran t3 for my human

I bought my t3 human cultural… on several characters and I have no problems with the flamekissed armor I actually wish it was still on the gemstore because I like it more than the t3

Actually if people like you didn’t rage so hard maybe they would have made a reskin of asuran t3 that your human could have enjoyed. This is why we can’t have nice things.

tolunart.2095:

Mochann.5298:

Lindsey Murdock said many things. None of which Arena Net did. She said they would monitor precursor prices because they were concerning, and implement fixes if they got out of hand. That was when GS and Staff precursors were going for 200gp. They now go for 800gp and nothing has been done about the problem.

They greatly increased the ability of players to make gold. Legendaries are supposed to be difficult to get, so what you see as a problem is the game working as intended.

Except they did PROMISE precursor crafting and a scavenger hunt, neither of which happened… people have a right to be upset about that.

I have my legendary and am working on my second, but I don’t blame them for being mad.

No…

Zerg content blows. People fail so bad at the easiest fights because they don’t even read the boss description. Instead they are just lazy.

Need more challenging small group stuff like fractals, or solo fights like that chic in queensdale.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Vol, he’s talking about Flamekissed.

Flamekissed was taken out of the gemstore due to a ton of people complaining that their cultural armor was available for everyone. It was basically human t3 cultural light with flames.

Anet had a previous issue with cultural armor being transmuted to other races, and they had said this was not allowed about a year prior. So they took it off and are working on a rework. Anyone who currently has this armor will have it replaced by the rework when it’s done.

that’s assuming there actually is a rework… its been months now and still no re-design. Betting they stay hush-hush and hope people forget.

Zaxares.5419:

No increased chance of Scraps/Tickets? Still not buying any Black Lion Keys then. XD

this

It’s been months… where is this promised new skin?

Personally I think anet is just hoping people will forget… well myself and others won’t let that happen.

Either DO as promised “remove current one from people who bought it, replace with new skin, refund gems of those who don’t like it.”

Or bring it back for everyone else to enjoy.

They had a workable solution but so far none of that solution has happened… You can’t stay hush-hush and hope people forget. Its to amazing of an armor for that to happen.

ps: I have t3 cultural human on all my humans already, I just like the new skin better.
ps 2: that OR make more in game armor (not just gemstore) so this whole issue becomes obsolete anyways if people had a lot more cool choices.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

cheshirefox.7026:

can’t believe they revoked that item
do you know how many hundreds of gold i’ve lost because some items become more available over time.. my main is a norn, you wouldn’t hear me whining if everyone started running around in gem bought eir stegalkin armor.. this game is only as broken as its community, i hope light armor skins become the priority for awhile

People complained that their exclusive T3 Human Cultural armor was now shared by all races. Anet did the right thing by taking it down, and apologized for the mistake.

Anet WILL do the right thing once they DO what they PROMISED. They promised to “remove” the “current” one in-game and “replace” it with a new one, those who do not like the new look will get their gems refunded.

So far… NONE of those promises have happened! Its been months… What they need to do is A) Keep their word and do as promised, or bring it back for everyone else! This is extremely unfair to those who bought gems and missed it because of work, paychecks, travel, etc

Personally I wouldn’t be surprised if they just stay “hush-hush” about it and hope people will forget… well we won’t.

ps: I have tier 3 human cultural on all of my humans already, I just love the skin and would rather wear the new one

Any/all of our promised (and lied to) hard worked for torment weapons and fow armor would be nice.

ps: i do find it hysterical that the expensive gw1 items like voltaic spear, crystalline blade, and froggy sceptor are super cheap in gw2.

All you people crying about dungeon sellers need to grow up and stop. ANET SAID countless times selling runs is ok. It was ok for over all of gw1.

the ones who exploit will eventually get what’s coming to them, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe you won’t see it (unless they bring back dhuum’s ban animation which would be epic) but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.

Until then if you see a person exploit then report them, if not don’t join their run, but stop acting like they are a terrible person when they are only 1) providing a service to the community and 2) making themselves some $ too.

Someone please explain to me why the t3 human female looks about the same but the male version of this looks amazing while the normal t3 male human looks meh.

Right. I’m saying since the outrage over cultural armor, shouldn’t there be the same outrage over cultural weapons too. I’m well aware that they’ve been accessible to all races… and no one seems to care. Seems to me they should make cultural armor available to all, especially since a lucky few already obtained it before patch fixes.

Another reason that people may not care is that frankly a lot of the cultural weapons just aren’t that impressive. A fail on the design team perhaps, but the cultural exclusiveness logically should still be an issue.

I was thinking about this earlier today and thought I’d throw it out at the community since most of the QQ posts originally were about cultural armor and its race exclusivity. I would love an intelligent response.

Why is it ok for cultural weapons to be accessed by other races (or re-skins of them) but not cultural armor?

You would think if it was such a big issue, people were threatening to quit playing, that their would be the same type of backlash over this, but its really such a non-issue that no one even cares or notices.

I have my own ideas. Mostly being people don’t care about the race exclusivity. They cared that it was cheaper and looked better than their set, that it had cool particle effects and their armor wasn’t the top looking armor anymore. But they can’t say that without looking like pricks so they try to use an intelligent argument like its race specific! (I do think to be fair, if they did keep the armor out then they should make more reskins of other t3 culturals)

Again the question is: why the big backlash about cultural armor, but no one cares about cultural weapons? It’s the same logic. An intelligent response please, I’d love to hear one

dietzero.3514:

They removed it because their trial at getting quick bucks from cultural armour blew up in their faces.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Cultural-Human-T3-Not-Exclusive/page/11#post3275237

Well now its just made the other side angry too so removing it is blowing up in their face too.

rhapsody.3615:

I’m glad I bought it the day it came out and I can enjoy it while it is here. It looks so awesome while wielding fiery greatsword

Congrats. Wish I got paid sooner so I could feel the same.

cranked.3812:

Man people need to take the time to read the site before posting 100’s of threads like this on a consistent basis.

The set was taken out of the gem store because people were complaining that the skins too closely resembled another skin set. Anet admitted the problem and took the skins out of the store to be redesigned and released at a future time.

Forums are mostly used for qq’ing. Your side had its turn of QQ’ers when they released this amazing new armor. You got your way because of said qq’ing and the 100’s of thread’s just like it. Now its your oppositions turn to QQ. It’s naive to think you guys can make 100’s of similiar threads but how dare the other side do the same.

Part of the problem is “anet took the skins out of the store to be redesigned and released at a future time.” Some people only bought gems for that skin! What if they don’t like how the new design looks? Oh well they get to keep the gems… What if the gems have no use because they don’t want more toon slots or hair changes or mystery tonics? Anet should refund those people their $$$.

I saw this comment somewhere else but people only cried because it had particle effects and looked better than the t3.

You took it off… not cool anet… seriously not cool! I already own the t3 human light armor on my necro but was planning on buying this for my other races. Screwed the fans again.

I own the human tier 3 cultural armor and am very upset that they pulled it. All this did was make BOTH sides angry.

As the title suggests I want anet to bring back the flamewalker light armor asap. People can argue the validity of putting tier3 cultural reskins on the gemstore all day, but (and this is where i have a real problem) putting it up on the gemstore then taking it off one or two days later is even worse!

After saying all of that I already own the tier 3 cultural armor… on my necromancer and love it. Buying it on the gemstore for my other toons does not in any way get rid of my pride of owning it. I really wanted it for my norn mesmer. I was angry at first but I was open minded and changed my mind to really like the idea. I’ve always wanted human cultural tier armor on my norn. It makes absolutely no sense why cultural weapons can be acquired a few ways by other cultures but armor can’t. It was a gorgeous armor set and because I don’t get paid till Friday I missed out. Again I’m not arguing if it should have been on the gemstore or not in the first place, I’m arguing to put it on, then take it off is seriously wrong. Also this is not the first time cultural armor was available for other races but anet patched that up too, another oh well you missed out situation.

I was going to buy that armor set for at least 4 of my toons, my female human necro, my human male ele, my norn female mesmer, and my human female ele. Again I already own the t3 human armor on my necro, and can buy it on two of the other toons listed, but I really wanted the flamewalker because it was simply an amazing skin. Money both in game or real life would not be an issue. (A side note: why does the male t3 armor look so bad but the flamewalker version looked so amazing) So that’s 3200 gems I was planning on buying tomorrow but I guess anet doesn’t want business and likes it when their customers are mad at them. Granted people were already mad at them for putting it on the gemstore but now a lot of people are also mad at them for taking it off (way to kitten off everyone) Caved in to people who qq on forums, glad they don’t do that for everything every class would need buffed and nerfed 24/7.

Simply unfair and not cool. Was thinking about buying the toxic alliance armor too but idk now, they might take that away too.

Well when I first made my norn I made her tattoo-less. It seems weird the game knowing I designed it for no tattoos would make an item force it on a race, especially since its different for other races, ie: humans just get the eyes. Now if humans had the tattoos too that would make sense, the item would be the same look across all races.

Now if this isn’t a bug it seems like bad design. And I really hope they fix or change this soon. My suggestion would be to make it just the eyes like the human race if the norn is tattooless, and add the tattoos if they have some on character creation.

Basically I’m trying to transmute the starter necro eyes to my lv 80 norn mesmer. The problem is instead of just transmuting the eyes like I want it also adds tattoos to the face of my female norn including a ninja turtle type tattoo and some other random tats on her face.

My norn doesn’t have any tattoos so this is either clearly a game bug or bad design. I don’t want tattoos, I don’t like tattoos, and it ruins the otherwise really cool transmutation for me.

Here’s my process:
Step 1) create new necro alt
Step 2) transmute eyes with basic stone to a low lv grey headpiece to make it account bound.
Step 3) transmute eyes with the upgraded transmutation stone so it can go on my exotic 80 gear
Step 4) QQ about tattoos. lol