Guild Wars 2

I think Giver isn’t included (like it isn’t on legendaries) because it used to have 3 different stat combos. Weapons had Cond Duration, Prec, Vit. Armor had Toughness, Boon Dur, Heal, and the upgrade/suffix was Magic Find, Boon Dur, Heal.

The MF especially couldn’t be included, although it was changed to match the armor combo.

Overflows are happening all over the place when an event is happening or even starting soon. Groups get split up, guild missions get a lot of problems, people are wasting their time trying to come to an event and are disappointed when they have come for nothing.

Something needs to be done about this.

STILL HAPPENING.

I don’t want to choose right now.

If I delay choosing it today, will it be there tomorrow? 5 days from now?

I feel like i read a long time ago that someone said they lost their dailies because they took too long to claim the chest.. or something. Very foggy.

1. I intended that the buy orders would be part of the limit.
2. Flipping morality is a whole other topic. I’ll just say I disagree that there’s nothing wrong with it.
3. They are stopping me from buying because my orders just get topped with huge stacks that will take weeks/months to come in. Same with for sale items. I’d love to make it so that you could only outbid/undercut if your stack size was smaller. It would cause some disadvantage to mass production, as there is none currently.

It’s not manual at all. They know as soon as the item is outbid and it gets topped quickly.

There’s also no learning involved. They will remove and rebid many items at the same time. Faster than the UI allows a human to. At best, it’s a person clicking an “outbid” button next to each item as they rapidly go down their list of 1621+ items. No human could keep up with that many items with the sluggish UI. If they can monitor all bids realtime, outbid rapidly, they can make the bot bid automatically.

The behaviour is robotic. I’ve done some testing and the bot reacts in ways a human player wouldn’t, and never changes its pattern, even when it is doing something foolish.

It’s not like Behellagh’s activity at all.

It isn’t hard to test either, they can go to any item and find the account doing the highest buy order to find out who is doing it. Then check the activity. There must be some obvious signs in the log.

There’s a bot bidding stacks of 10 on every blue weapon between lv 19 and 60. Every time any weapon is outbid, a minute or two later the bot’s bid is removed and placed on top.

Try any blue weapon in that level range and the top buy order will be a stack of 10 or less. After the 10 are filled, the bot reposts another 10. It continues up to a uniform maximum, where the bot no longer auto-outbids.

I reported this 2 days ago and no one is doing anything about it. 1621 items all reserved for one bot. Possibly other items on the TP I haven’t looked into.

Please shut the bot down before any more damage is done.

No way, we need fewer power traders flipping, making it a pain for people who actually want the item. If anything, reduce the limit.

I’ve seen gw2spidy graphs jump and supply bars drop before patch of items that turned out to be used in new recipes. You can check it after any big spike caused by a new use for an item. Note when the news officially broke and check the spidy graph. Supply often gets bought out.

And does dark matter replace ecto or will both come from a salvage?
And the inscriptions – level 80 only?

Are dark matter and inscriptions 100% chance or RNG?

The same map multiple times in 1 play session is boring and unproductive. The randomness doesn’t add any benefit. You could randomize the maps every 13 invasions so they would get done more evenly.

The problem with the gears is that you can be 95% done the channel and a mob can just walk to a gear and “harvest” it instantly. It doesn’t give you an indication that your finisher didn’t complete, the mob doesn’t have channel time, it doesn’t interrupt, and you can see the new mob/mine appear despite your finisher animating.

There are a few ways this could be improved but it won’t be. In a zerg, DPS is the only thing that matters. Finishing the gears is only helpful in the playhouse.

I’ve also been thinking that with all exotics dropping in price, it will make exotics less acceptable when ascended gear comes out. If exotics are common and easy, more people might say “might as well attempt ascended”.

Also, we will be fatter when we’re eaten.

It does kind of suck a year of saving and discipline, and going the extra mile with dealing with the trading post intelligently has saved me money, yet everyone who didn’t do that or who started months later are catching up to me in this event.

It just seems so strange after so many months of players saying the loot drops were terrible and Anet being rigid about not giving more (or even decreasing it after Lost Shores).

Now suddenly, we’re getting tons of loot. Why the change?

Also, it seemed like any small change in the past could upset the economy and that was something to fear. Now, we’re seeing drastic fluctuations in prices and a deluge of supply for some items. For example, Radiant Dust used to be at 80-85c. Now it’s 18c.
Platinum Ore before Queen’s Jubilee was about 1s50 and is now 82c. And there’s lots of the event remaining. Isn’t that an upset to the economy, and why isn’t it worrysome?

This change is good in a lot of ways. It makes it feel more worthwhile when we go out and fight… but I get a feeling like it will all be invalidated by a future change. Like how people were farming karma and then we all realized karma’s kind of useless.

Just waiting for the other shoe to drop. Anyone else feel this way?

Wow. This thread explains so much of why the trading post has been getting gradually more of a headache for me to deal with.

There have been items that I keep getting outbid on and it seems like it’s by one person. I will put my bid in, then very soon afterwards it is outbid. There are long stretches where that bid is the top one, but as soon as I bid again, I have been topped.

I had thought there were people who just spent their whole day checking to see if they had the highest bid. But that is just way too much work, and there’s no way to play the game while doing that. That work + the inability to play is the HUGE advantage in these programs. Holy cow.

I’m undecided about how I feel about them. Part of me wants to use one, part of me wants them to be banned. I feel like the advantage should go to people who work harder. I’ve made my own excel sheets and put tens of hours into making trading more efficient. But this is an advantage that is both automated and requires no work for the end user. That’s an undeserved advantage.

If some can use this, everyone should. But if everyone used it, buy orders would be a frenzy of outbiddings until they met parity with sell orders, and the whole purpose would be defeated. That fact tells me these programs aren’t good for the game.

Taku.6352:

This is why we can’t have nice things. Anet gave us a huge event where we could finally works as a server outside of WvW and farmbots like you come and ruin it for the rest of us.

I’ve never seen a bot that is so articulate.
Also, I have only actually done the event with my server once very late at night. Every other time it is a PUG map. And they don’t necessarily play well together.

The two mentions of our personal nemesis from official sources have been here in February:

“we’ll also be surprising you with interesting villains, one of whom will become your personal nemesis. Again, no spoilers allowed, so I can’t tell you more than that, but you’ll recognize this sassy character when you see…um, him/her/it. <grin>”

and here, just after flame & frost (end of April):
“That person has not yet revealed herself. If you go to Rox’s final instance in the citadel stockades you can interrogate the prisoners after the dungeon and get some small clues.”

Since scarlet is summoning molten alliance enemies, it makes sense that she’s the sassy female we were told about. I don’t know how that makes her our personal nemesis, if she is.

What I find interesting is that we are supposed to recognize her when we see her. She looked pretty new to me, unless I missed some early scene with her.

We failed once due to groups being too small. Took too long to kill champions like the captain, and the number of events that completed were lower than they needed to be.

THough I agree big zergs will also fail.

I can understand your point of view, but this:
“. If it wasn’t for me, kinda sacraficing a lot of loot in the process, (and a few other commanders, but most other commanders were troll farmers, like 6 of them), we would not have made it in time.”
doesn’t lend you any credit. You never have to lose loot. Spam F while fighting and you can get every bit of loot without being slowed down.

As for farming.. I had thought of it but hadn’t felt the need to yet. I will sometimes remain after an event to clean up a champ or 2 unless we’re low on time. But if given a choice, I would trade 1 Stashes + 3 boxes for 4+ boxes that the farmers are getting. Especially once I got an acheive for each zone.

Pale Tree
Pale (adjective, light in colour), Tree (noun, type of plant)

Scarlet Briar
Scarlet (adjective, a colour), Briar (noun, type of plant)

Seems like she follows a similar naming scheme.

I noticed this recipe was changed.
•The recipe requires a level 400 artificer. The ingredients are 25 Watchwork Sprockets, 25 Pieces of Candy Corn, 25 Pieces of Zhaitaffy and 25 Flawless Snowflakes.

What was this Glob of Dark Matter? Is it coming back?

Undercutting makes the trading post too irritating for most to bother with.

The current system allows stupid people to prevent smart people from selling (ie selling big stacks for less than the price of the mats).

If I had it my way, you’d only be allowed to undercut if you had a smaller quantity than the current lowest poster. It would be like a grocery store express lane for 1-8 items, so the the people who post 250 don’t clog up the drain.

At first I couldn’t believe the nerve to even bring this into the game. That disbelief is blown out of the water though, by the faulty justifications people come up with for buying it. Take out a calculator. It simply isn’t worth it in any possible playstyle.

You could even vendor every item you would have salvaged, and have more money than if you bought this, and use no inventory slots to hold salvage kits.

Come on, people. Our buying power is all that we have to shape the future of this game. Don’t cast it aside when something shiny comes along.

I feel like this game isn’t meant for hardcore players. The top level gear is meant to be accessible to everyone after doing a reasonable amount of work. I don’t think the reward should be given for the hardcore arena match. It should be gotten by everyone who tries hard, and if people want challenge on impossible difficulty, they can do it for achievement points that don’t have a reward.

Saying that content should be hard so that only 5% of people can beat it doesn’t fall in line with everything GW2 has manifested itself to be up to now. And to me, the bragging rights of 5% aren’t as important as the enjoyability of the whole playerbase.

Everyone has a different preference as to difficulty. They can’t make it suit every person.

The bad camera angles and bad visibility of aoe circles or monitor flare have nothing to do with difficult gameplay, it’s just bother. And frankly, it feels disrespectful knowing someone programmed it that way intentionally just to bother us. I wouldn’t do that to the community if I was designing this.

How about we just take the dome off of the arena? That’s the main camera problem with me.

BTW agree with everything about artificial difficulty.

I was told that the money in the bank would remain if you delete all of your characters to switch servers. Along with items in the bank.

Now that gold is in the wallet, does this still work? Or will these currencies get deleted when all characters are deleted?

Price spiked to 3x its former value in the last 24 hours.

What happened?

Trading post window tabs:
1. Gem Store
2. Gem Exchange
3. Trading Post (Buy)
4. Sell on Trading Post
5. My Transactions
6. Pick Up

On top of the loooong existing bug where clicking an item in the Transactions tab takes you to a buy page (while still in the 5th tab and no way to get back to seeing your transactions)….

There’s a newly added bug where when you right click on an item in inventory, and choose Sell on Trading Post. It now opens this “Sell Your Stuff” page within the #3 Buy tab, rather than the #4 Sell on Trading Post Tab.

tl;dr 1 Right-click sell should open on the 4th tab like it used to. 2. Clicking on an item in 5th tab should switch the active tab to #3.

We killed them with retaliation and maybe lifesteal. Took about 10 mins and they dropped no loot and gave no XP. So yeah just leave it until the event repeats and hopefully they’ll reset.

This is still an issue after the patch. Very noticeable by the hyenas and somewhat from the new robots in the Pavilion.

I haven’t seen that one activate in about 3 hours.

Was it removed?

Also boo champs are fully removed from the Pavillion.

Also that Rain of Arrows AoE circle by the centaur legendary boss is not being shown every time.

It’s always such a headache trying to figure out what is being removed from the game, and on what date. And what is remaining in for this update (but possibly removed after some overlap time).

Guildies wanted to know if they could still do some achievements after tomorrow, if the MF changes will be happening, if Lab Cliffs will be gone. Everyone is guessing and giving responses like “didn’t it say it would _”.

Can we get some definitive list of each things that’s staying and going for these updates?

Probably not, but someone would, and they’d have a point.

I wish I knew the deadline. I thought it was going to change sometime on the 6th, when the update happened.

When I logged in earlier today, I saw the news bulletin and was totally surprised. I had to check the date because I thought I must have mixed my days up.

If we can send mass mails to say “ellen won” without a patch. We should be able to send one saying “Get your votes in by Monday at ___pm”.

Would be easier to accept that things didn’t go my way if I knew my votes counted.

I feel like they went towards ellen more than the fractal.

This was a huge issue in TA a couple of nights ago. The blooms UI health bars not only remain, but they are still targettable. It makes it very hard to find targets that are still real and a lot of skills get wasted. It pretty much breaks tab targetting for the whole dungeon.

It seems like with the blooms that the health bar remains until the death animation completes. I did see it happening with the nightmare hounds as well when they died. Really needs a fix.

Draknar.5748:

Clark Skinner.4902:

With the significant size of the player base who dislike or hate jumping puzzles, making a month of jumping puzzle content was a foreseeably bad idea. Every update I am more baffled trying to figure out the thinking behind each decision. smh

I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to anyone that dislikes the jumping puzzles outside of the QQers in the forums. And even then it’s a small minority.

That means there aren’t any. Please make a blog revealing to everyone all of the universal truths you’ve learned based on your experience.

The point of these scrolls was given in the initial post.

I’d have to buy a new character slot, use the scroll

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Will there still be MF on food?
Is it only for gear?
What about banners?
Guild Buffs?
Boosters?

Gold find?
Gold find food?
Gold find WvW bonus?

Weapon Swap sigils have a ~9 second cooldown. If you’re swapping slightly before that cooldown is up, they won’t trigger. Test to see if it doesn’t work when waiting over 10 seconds.

The Salad foods that give % more damage while moving are still not working.

This is a long-known bug. I tested it long ago, and tested it again today.

Setup: No boons, no stacks, using water attunement scepter auto attack (3 projectiles with no conditions) to kill Flame Legion Blademasters. Crit damage = 53%

First run: no food, standing still. Averages of regular attack damage; crit attack damage are as follows
regular attacks did 95.756 damage avg
crit attacks did 195.154 damage avg

Second run: Bowl of Asparagus and Sage Salad (8% damage while moving). Moving the entire time.
regular attacks did 95.909 damage avg
crit attacks did 195.818 damage avg

Third run: Same food, but standing still while auto-attacking the enemy to death
regular attacks did 95.421 damage avg
crit attacks did 196.143 damage avg

As you can see, nothing is having any effect on damage done.

IndigoSundown.5419:

loot from Champions will be upgraded

It already has been upgraded. Back in November, guaranteed loot was given from champions and veterans, and made so that they are worth fighting over normal mobs.

Yet despite that firm promise, nothing changed. And then they said they identified the problem and fixed it, except nothing changed. Fortunately, we only have to kill champions for an additional 2 months, on top of the 10 months already played, before we can begin to get something somewhat more worthwhile.

My time feels very respected.

I failed once because my clock was off by about 10 seconds, and it still appeared to be yesterday, but the deadline passed just before I completed the last gathering node. X(

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Clark Skinner.4902:

What is the difference between a macro button pressing F once a second and a finger pressing F once per second? Neither will get more loot than the other. Neither gives an advantage.

The only thing changed is less strain on the hand, which is healthier.

Difference is, if you automate the clicking, you are getting an unfair advantage over people who have to manually click.

It’s not an advantage over anyone else. The people pressing manually can get just as much. If gaming comfortably is cheating, then so is sitting with ergonomic posture, using mice & keyboards that are more comfortable, and using a larger monitor. They allow you to play longer without getting strained, and that is an unfair advantage, no? Not to mention gaming mice and gamepads that have extra programmable buttons so your fingers don’t need to travel as far to reach extra keys (more finger work = disadvantage). If reducing finger strain is a crime, everyone but the most uncomfortable player is gaining an unfair advantage over him or her, and should be banned.

What is the difference between a macro button pressing F once a second and a finger pressing F once per second? Neither will get more loot than the other. Neither gives an advantage.

The only thing changed is less strain on the hand, which is healthier.

BUG-FIXES
•Removed the ability to get loot drops and experience for killing small Thundershrimp in Labyrinthine Cliffs.

What did they drop?

And why should people not get loot from non-hostile enemies? Sometimes the non-hostiles are more work to kill then hostiles.

I didn’t write the post without trying at everything. I wrote it after a couple of hours of not enjoying it. The freshness of the new jumps did not make it enjoyable for me. The race’s jumps weren’t as hard true, but still don’t enjoy platformers, especially when rushed.

Yes, I know you need 16, but it is required to do jumping puzzles to get many of those. I got 10 crystals and a mesmer was around to help with 1. We shouldn’t need to rely on a mesmer being around for meta achievements.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I have 8 or 9 of the 16 achievements and the only jumping I’ve done as been in the new zone. Technically, I could get all 16 achievements without doing any of the jumping puzzles….just do the new zone achievements (exploration and sprint).

The new zone IS a jumping puzzle.
And I don’t care at all about ‘getting them all’. The meta reward is the only reason I’m bothering with the new content at all.

I remember a topic about how puzzles close access to people in the previous room, even if they are in the same guild.

People were mentioning that it wasn’t a problem because a mesmer could port them to the next room.

In the last 3 missions, we stressed to not move on until everyone is out of the room, but people always get stuck and it’s a real drag for them. I couldn’t figure out how to go back and help them. The times I have tried, I ended up trapped too.

Can someone tell me how to portal people on the other side of a door to the next room?

Chris said in game that this would be implemented.

That was in January though…