I have to admit that I’m scratching my head over this one. I am sure that they could have sold easily twice as many of these if they had priced them at 1000 gems.
Maybe they are just testing the waters to see how irrational the gem buying public is likely to be. Maybe it is something even more cynical, where they offer a good deal like the Zephyrite rescue kit and then offer this one to try and hook people in assuming they won’t do the maths and guess it is of similar value. Or maybe their anticipation of the value of the colour swath was way off because they made long term assumptions before the wardrobe changes were implemented and they haven’t recalculated.
Whatever the case is, they have hurt the reputation of the gem store, which is a shame.
My take on the Sylvari as dragon minions theory is that it only made sense if the Pale Tree was intended as a sleeper cell but was raised in such a way that it can’t be controlled by Mordremoth any more.
I keep telling myself that going into events like these working for a single drop is setting yourself up for disappointment.
Then I start hoping for a drop so I can make something I like and I rage for days not getting it.
Then I sulk and say to myself “fine I don’t want it anyway, I’ll just use up my last keys and leave!”
Then I get what I was after. And I still complain because I don’t have enough geodes after having bought the clay pot.
In short, I think I need to grow up.
I didn’t think about the crafting rares! Is that less expensive than just buying them at offer price?
For the more desirable items, yes. So staff, greatsword, hammer, sword and dagger (possibly others too, but I’d have to check). My guess is currently if the precursor is over 800 gold then the price of the rare will make it worth crafting.
The floor price for rares is based on the price of ectos, but this is sufficiently low that crafting things like spears and tridents are not worthwhile.
One day I want to do a full story dungeon run, start off with the level 30 personal story instance and work my way from Ascalonian Catacombs to Arah. If nothing else it would be cool to revisit CoF for the Sohothin tie-in with living story.
Is there a dungeon forum equivalent to Poe’s law?
A while back we had one guy switch out without asking on the last boss after two people got downed. The party wiped with a sliver of health left on the boss. This was one of the few times I’ve voted for a kick.
In general I don’t like it, I think its a cheap way of doing things (in the pejorative sense of cheap), but if people want to do it and ask beforehand then I won’t object.
I would definitely buy this item if my main was a Charr for when I ran out of salvage kits. Given that I am human it is not quite so tempting. As for Asura…
Another thing to consider: more precursors => higher t6 prices
Am I the only one with a dark enough sense of humour to find it amusing that somebody tries to do something in order to go trolling, but makes an error and ends up trolling himself?
Unless OP is posting it here to troll us, in which case: Trollception. I salute you
It has been that way as long as I can remember, so it isn’t down to when you crafted them. If I had to guess as to why it is that way I would say that they had a change of heart between weapons and armours as to which pieces they wanted to make sellable, but didn’t want to make any retroactive changes. Or they forgot. Either way it is an unexplained anomaly that has been around for a while.
This game was marketed as a no-grind game (because Anet doesn’t make grindy games), with horizontal progression for cosmetic rewards as end game. I bought into that hype and I’m not at all happy with the direction this game has taken since then. Everything, absolutely everything has gotten more grind as time goes by, and we’re still stuck with either RNG your mats away to obtain a precursor, pull out your credit card, or grind your face off.
But, legendaries are largely cosmetic. Admittedly, that has become slightly less true now that they are account bound, but you can get the same level item with way less grinding. Legendaries have always been there for people who like the grind which is why you can get everything except the cosmetics elsewhere.
@Orangensaft & @Voltcieage, it is something you run into if you open that box, even if you are NOT going for the achievement. I basically opened the box out of interest, well I wish I hadn’t. But surely I am not going to restart this instance just because some foe is there.
You were given the tools to avoid the foe but decided to do something dangerous “out of interest”. The only reason I can see for you being upset is if you want to play a game that has no consequences for reckless behaviour.
Plot twist: Trahearne is Mordremoth. Dun dun dun..
That would put his motivation for cleansing Orr in a whole new light.
You know I’m torn between smiling because it was a joke, and saying “No seriously man, think about it. It could work! There’s a reason the pact didn’t go to Lion’s Arch other than ‘Our mission is fighting the dragons’. He was planning this the whole time the cunning necomancer! No Lion’s Arch, no Zhaitan and, worst of all, he made sure that there would be no Tibault to save us from Mordremoth’s encroaching vines!”
Broham is in my opinion a very annoying character. He says things out of left field that contradict how everyone is feeling. Like when you go to stomp scarlet and she asked," dont you wanna know why I did all of this." Of course broham responses says," NO, we don’t like to be pushed around!" REALLY BRAHAM WE DON’T WANNA KNOW THIS VERY IMPORTANT DETAIL ABOUT THE STORY? Then when the master of peace says hes going to leave and braham asked him where is he going then he says no i can’t tel you braham seems totally ok with that? DA FUK he seems like a complete moron.
I agree with you on the first point, but with the master of peace I read it as him being sarcastic.
It’s funny, but I felt this was the best handled part of the Braham/Eir story. It has been established that Braham feels resentment towards his mother for leaving her. What Eir feels is less clear to me, maybe a mixture of guilt and resentment (for making her feel guilty). So they are not on good terms with each other.
Then they go off and fight together and it goes really well, they are Norns doing what Norns are good at and they do it better than the average Norn. For the first time they are together and nothing feels forced. Then they stop and the things that they felt before are still there, they still haven’t resolved their issues, and are unsure of the other, but they have shared something. So it’s awkward.
Yeah, gets though is gets to the end of the room. Which usually happens when one of those darn spheres spawns on top of my poor head. Generally when I’m using the barrier with staff, I can keep him there for a couple seconds while I hit him with Wave and Sphere, and when it goes down, i drop my aoe on him. usually can get him down by mid room, then back to statue, then back to mender, until something breaks the rhythm then it’s back to the drawing board.
For this sort of content consider using scepter/focus for ranged attacks. Guardian staff is good against multiple opponents at once, but does very little damage against an individual target. Scepter on the other hand is only a single target weapon, but does decent damage. Also, you have the number 3 skill which chains an opponent and is quicker to cast than the line of warding.
I totally agree with the OP, although I find skipping through the dialogue to be more annoying. In this case I actually miss the original conversation animations, which would have given me more of a sense of my own presence first time and the ability to skip quickly the second time.
I had a literal laugh out loud moment when she called me her assistant. I really loved that touch.
I squirmed in the previous episode when I was referred to as “The boss”, it was so clearly there to placate the whiners who wanted to feel special. I want to be surrounded by personalities, not sycophants.
I found the encounter really enjoyable on the first play, but I was playing guardian. What I found less enjoyable were the challenges, especially when the orbs materialise under you and there is no time to dodge.
The no drops thing is a deliberate decision. The sigils and food thing seem to be unintended consequences. Collateral damage in the war on farming.
There are two ascended materials called Crystalline Ore and Crystalline Ingot. If you think these are going to be a dust version of, say, mithrilium and deldrimor steel ingot then stock up on t2-5 dust. Otherwise I can’t see prices going up too much because the need to promote other materials didn’t push up dust prices so I can’t see it having an effect for promoting gemstones.
My hope is that 500 cooking is going to be a way of consuming these ascended materials.
Capturing Scarlett would have required the “writer” to have come up with actual answers to the gaping swiss cheese plot.
We would be asking Scarlet. and not left to fill in the massive gaps on our own.
I don’t think the “writer” would have been capable of doing Scarlets answers in any sort of remotely plausible fashion. Hasn’t yet. But , Ley lines, yah know.
Weird then that ley lines were being speculated about last year, well before season 1 even ended.
And then the PC later on makes a point to Rox later on that Taimi got a lot of stuff right. I think it might be that Rox is unnerved by Taimi (understandable given her hero worship of Scarlet and headstrong nature) and is worried that Braham is blind to Taimi’s faults.
Given that it is mentioned in the journal my guess is that they are going to have things come to a head at some stage, either with Taimi taking exception to being thwarted by Rox, or Taimi getting in to trouble doing something that Braham should have stopped her doing.
There’s nothing wrong with mass buy orders, and I do not see how that would be against the ToS.
It’s probably not against the ToS, but it is essentially dishonest because it is only there to convey false information about the market.
That prices vary wildly for exotics based on looks and functionality doesn’t bother me. The anomaly is exotic and costs 120 gold because it costs a lot to make and looks good. Why do you think that an exotic with great functionality (ie, can be forged into a legendary) should be cheap?
At the moment Dawn is about the same cost in gold as Gift of fortune. If you have about 1 million karma, a lot of skill points, 500 badges of honour, have world completion and find Ascalonian Catacombs easy, then sure you may as well buy the mats and craft Sunrise. You stand to come out several hundred gold better off doing these things so it’s probably wort the effort unless you only have something like 20% world completion.
Am I the only one that find it rather funny that someone is complaining about peoples usage of language while at the same time using capital letters for every word in the headline?
Capitalising the initial letter for each word in a title is quite acceptable, and is even recommended style in some areas. One website I use suggests that the proper capitalisation of the movie is “The Wizard of Oz” for instance.
For the record, my pet spelling peeve is “then” rather than “than”. I know that one’s already been done, but it’s worth mentioning again. I also hate it when my iPad autocorrects to “it’s” when “its” is appropriate.
Crafting exotics is not ridiculous and ascended items are only slightly better in terms of stats. Ascended crafting is meant to be a long term goal for most players, though not as long term as a legendary. The game is getting towards 2 years old and in order to keep players going you have to expect the odd item that is going to take you a month to craft.
I just started throwing hammers in the forge last week to get the colosus. 300+ gold gone with no return.
So, you have spent 300 gold trying to get an 800 gold item and haven’t got it yet. If you could get the Colossus for 300 gold reliably do you know what its price on the TP would be?
There is a base level for rares related to the price of ectos. At 70s I am guessing you are looking at one of the desirable weapons for a legendary. Greatswords, staves, hammers and (I think) daggers have prices dictated by the cost of precursors rather than the price of ectoplasm.
A silver-fed upgrade extractor. Like the current upgrade extractor only reusable for a cost of several silver to extract each time.
I bought a gem card from a store today. When I got back home and pulled off the sticky label part of the code underneath came of with it and is unreadable. What should my next step be in order to access the gems that I purchased?
There are a couple of crafting oddities with the latest patch. Hopefully they’ll fix them up soon.
At this stage I would recommend you not rush things until you have eight deldrimor steel ingots crafted. That’s the number you will need for the dagger and you may as well craft them yourself while it does you some good.
Another way of doing things on the cheap is to use dungeon tokens. For any dungeon except CoF you can buy dungeon weapons with Magi, Rabid, Soldier or Shaman stats. Salvage these with black lion salvage kits for a chance to get inscriptions. You’ll probably end up averaging 6 or so runs per inscription, but you’ll also unlock skins and gain ecto’s and dark matter.
Two points Nerelith. Firstly, the gem store has always been “pay to look good”. They have to make their money on something and they decided on cosmetic and convenience items.
Secondly, if you now consider spending time online playing the game to be work, then you also consider things like dungeons armour to be paid armours. In fact all armours by this logic are paid for unless they give them to you for just logging on.
If I have to move forward while using wind jump close to an edge there is a high chance of “rubber banding” for me.it may be a Ping issue.
First off, I’m really enjoying the first instalment of LS2, both the story and new area.
One thing however really annoyed me, using aspects in combat. Aspects seem to be more reliable than when first introduced, but they still have a nasty habit of not working as they should 100% of the time. I’m not sure if this is a function of high ping (I’m playing from Australia) or somebody occasionally watching youtube while I’m playing, but the fact is that they don’t always work (even allowing for the fact that lightning jump seems to consistently overshoot). This means that while it’s ok for jumping puzzles putting them in combat makes for a frustrating experience rather than a challenging one.
I’m fine with keeping aspects for things like jumping puzzles, just no more in combat.
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The big advantage with warrior is that there is the social pressure towards good play provided by declaring banners at the start. That said I still see the occasional dolyak signet warrior with ranged weapons, but that tends to be newer players.
The weird thing about stacking with pugs is that might is so rarely stacked, which is one of the things that tends to make it safe and effective.
Congratulations to all involved. I had a great time watching, and thanks DnT for running this.
So, there I was grumbling last week when I had to pay 80c a pop, now they are over 1s20c.
Personally, I have been using them to create mystic forge weapons, which have become more desirable since the wardrobe came out. If that’s what is driving the market I would expect to see coins drop back down eventually.
For me the big test is going to be about a week from Season 2 starting as more casual players return to play living world, because at the moment there is a relatively high proportion of players grinding out stuff.
1300 is enough to buy The Legend, which is the precursor to Bifrost.
To craft Bifrost look here http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bifrost
In short you will need:
A precursor.
500 badges of honour
340 skill points
1 million karma
500 Arah tokens
Lots of material that can be bought with gold.
If I were you I would buy the precursor first (though if you like gambling you can craft rare staves and throw them in the mystic forge to try and get one), then look at gift of mastery. Learn to run at least one explorable path of Arah and craft mystic clovers.
Twilight is much the same except you will have to learn Ascalonian Catacombs.
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If you have close to 1 million karma and 340 skill points then I would say make it yourself. The only other thing you need to get that you can’t buy with gold is the dungeon gift, which is only eight runs and running dungeons is a good way to get gold anyway.
They are gonna make it work with season 1 though right? Well guess I’ll dust off my account. I’ll level a fresh toon. This was always one of my biggest little complaints.
As Guhracie said, season 1 wasn’t done with this in mind, so they are going to have to retrofit it. This means it will be a while before we see it, but they have said that they intend to do it.
They should have been ascended. Considering the time involved and the fact that for many, WvW is their endgame, that would have been fitting. Most of us are using ascended anyhow and its not top tier.
PvP tournament players, of course, get legendaries apparently.
Legendary = 2500 gold approx
Exotic = 2 Gold if you are luckyDon’t need to do the math to see which of these tournaments is more valued.
Yeah, you kind of do have to do the math. Multiply both gold values by the number of people who win a legendary in pvp and those who win an exotic in WvW.
Your ignorance is perfectly forgivable given that nobody else knows either, possibly including the devs (who may or may not have firm plans on it).
If I had to guess I would say that it will be in the next feature patch which will be several months away. Mind you, if you’d asked me in January when I thought it would come out I would have guessed in the first half of the year.
On ruby orbs, remember that players can buy trinkets with zerker stats already using laurels, so don’t expect demand to jump that high.
My guess is that as people level up we will see a bit of a jump in ori and a jump in the price of any exquisite jewel that is cheaper to buy than make.
I am also guessing that people have a few mithrilium in their bank and so there will be more of a spike on t2-4 mats as the time-gate will be bypassed, but that spike will be small as it’s mainly masochists like me who will be crafting up when JC500 comes.
One unanswered question is how they are going to allow jewelcrafters to make stats like Soldiers and Magi. If you like long shots invest in crests.