Guild Wars 2

I thought it was impossible to create sell (or buy) orders below vendor value, but today I successfully filled an order and bought 20 Ugly Wool Hats (which vendor for 14 copper each) for 3 copper each (making a 2.2 silver profit if I’d vender it right now)

Confused!

You mean level 2 right? ;D

Level 1 personal story is designed to be completely race specific after all…

So the Veteran Slayer farm for the monthly involves killing 100 veterans.

This is probably done over a month of regular play anyway, but what if you’re in a hurry or want to farm it?

What I did last time was to farm mosshearts, but there is a much much faster way!

(Spoilers!)

In the Tears of Itlaocol minidungeon there are veterans that can respawn about as fast as you can kill them. Just watch out of their champion and their poison burst damage.

Thedenofsin.7340:

If the point is to make the mini-game progressively difficult to the point where most people cannot complete it, then why bother having a hard mode at all?

I for one like the idea of a super hard mode. It’ll give something to work at, and a prize that truly shows off awesome jumping skillz.

Besides it’s in line with all those old impossibly hard games, so it’s keeping with the theme

My personal philosophy is that if I can beat something 100% then it’s too easy >_>

captaincrash.6528:

I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that the chests were a 1-day thing.

Glorious chests at the end of zones inside the Super Adventure Box are 1 per day per character.

The Super Mystery Boxes in the open world respawned all the time.

Tanek.5983:

That said, are the ones in the worm needed for the achievement? Wouldn’t that leave you skipping others out in the zone?

No, you can backtrack.

It’s best to get everything up to the black water first and then turn around and go through the worm, but if you need to you can get back across the black water from the other side, or just do it in baby mode to have rainbow bridges.

Unless everyone on Underworld is slow you probably weren’t the first.

I’m on IoJ and had the title monday afternoon (US time, around daily reset probably), and wasn’t nearly the first on my server.

Congrats none the less though, it’s quite the achievement.

You can repeat zones for more baubles, yes, though the glorious chest at the end of a zone is once per day per character.

Protip: look up some of the good digging locations and secrets to make a run through a zone a little more profitable.

You can also get baubles by finding giant chests outside the Super Adventure Box throughout Tyria.

There’s guides for the zones:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1bfssm/sab_w1_zone_1_bauble_locations_wip/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1bgi54/sab_w1_zone_2_bauble_locations_wip/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1bhp5h/sab_w1_zone_3_bauble_locations_wip/

Agreed. At the very least it would be nice if the achievement triggered without needing to fight the boss.

dragNdrop.8149:

Maybe I’m missing something, I’ve done the first four, but when i go to get the last two it says I’ve already turned them in. But the status bar say’s I still have 2 to go. Are there multiple objects on each map and I just have to find the right one? I thought it updated itself so that the old objects didn’t show anymore. Any info would be helpful.

The old objects still show and they are indistinguishable from the new ones until you try to pick them up, you need to find the new ones.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Langmar_Estate

Lexandro.1456:

Intel graphics problem, most likely a driver bug. I suggest looking for updated drivers for your GPU.

This is a very minor bug and driver hunting is a pain. I certainly wouldn’t be too surprised if it was a GPU issue, but I’d also be interested to see if anyone else (intel or otherwise) could trigger this bug.

I made a bug report in game, but since I could reproduce it so reliably I thought I’d post here too.

First of all look at the attached screenshot (attachment #1, taken in south blazeridge steppes) to see the UI corruption I’m talking about.

Note in the screenshot where it says “Crossing” in the upper right. This appears to be part of the text “Twin Sister’s Crossing” that would have appeared on the map (attachment #2), the text is the same size as it would have been on the map as well. I can consistently get various “map text” such as this to appear depending on the surrounding area.

How I trigger it is as follows (can take a few tries to get the timing right):

• Talk to a scout so that they begin to pull up the map that shows you heart-quests
• Immediately and rapidly mash the map key 3 or so times so that you get back to the adventuring view right as the map is going to appear. Timing is important so it might take a few attempts.

This can be triggered after changing zones, and after restarting the game.

This corrupted text can be fixed by anything that causes it to change or update, so minimizing and maximizing the story quest will fix the story quest part of the UI for instance. It can also all be fixed at once by completely minimizing and unminimizing the GW2 program itself.

My graphics card is an Intel HD 3000, I am running on Windows 7 in windowed mode.

I have also attached a game advisor report that I modified to remove some personal information (attachment #3)

Sebrent.3625:

If so, are there plans for:

• Being able to either take two of the same pet (i.e. both my terrestial slots are a cave spider)
• Being able to obtain the HoM pets through other means
• Being able to obtain new pets of the same family and with the same F2 skills as the HoM pets

Thanks.

The easiest solution that wouldn’t make GW1 players grab their pitchforks would just be to add another Jellyfish and Spider as HoM alternatives.

But is this really important to anyone? Are there places where having two sets of paralyzing venom or chilling whirls is worth it with the long cool-down on pet specials? I’d think variety in your two pets and their special skills would be more useful most of the time.

Regardless, I’m just wondering. It sounds like an easy fix so it should probably be done sooner or later.

This behavior matches how it worked before the checkmarks where there. I think they don’t want people to overlook dailies / monthlies, but it might be nice to have a toggle somewhere.

CriminalMind.4379:

Says “Masterwork Quality” or above.

Missed that! Thanks.

Same here, I just crafted 74 green wood planks and no progress at all.

See where it says “… gems”? This means that your connection to the TP is borked.

Does it work if you close and relaunch the game and immediately open the trading post a couple times? This usually fixes it for me.

And yes, this bug is super annoying.

I believe you need to be at a crafting station to craft stuff, and that you don’t do it through your hero panel.

Sowin.5187:

Crimsony.2514:

Let’s say you have a guild of 5 people and 0 AoW unlocks today. Ignoring any influence gains from activities you need 73 gold to unlock all the tiers, or 14.6 gold per person.

I don’t mean to single you out Crimsony, many have illustrated this point.

But, to be fair, why not charge every player in the game 14.6g to access the new content?

Why tax the small guilds?

“Help! I’m being repressed!” lol

You have a fair point.

It’s true that big guilds have a big advantage here I won’t deny that. And I certainly can understand why lots of smaller guilds would want easier unlocks here.

After thinking about that I do think having some easier to unlock missions would be good, and that “elite” missions that require completing a bunch of others first (but that aren’t expensive) would be even better.

I do really think there’s a place for expensive guild missions though.

Personally I just like having goals to work towards as long as they’re not unattainable.

One thing GW2 lacks so far is much progression beyond getting to level 80 / high level gear. GW1 had a huge questing system, and thousands of skill unlocks, and these gave the game depth. I’d like to see more depth, more things to work towards, in GW2.

Going against the majority here, I for one have no problem whatsoever with requiring the expensive unlocks for guild missions (having just solod out a guild treasure trove for my secondary private guild ;D).

In fact I’m happy they’re adding more stuff to the guild unlock system, it felt kinda tiny.

Let’s say you have a guild of 5 people and 0 AoW unlocks today. Ignoring any influence gains from activities you need 73 gold to unlock all the tiers, or 14.6 gold per person. With somewhat active and willing players this is easily done in just a few weeks, if you farm together in a group it’d go even faster.

I realize this means you couldn’t launch guild missions right from the patch date, what with all the grinding and build times. But guild missions aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

And I’m not just saying this because I don’t need to worry about it or it won’t effect me. I’m in a teeny tiny guild with 3 active players and a few more occasional players.

Poledo.3256:

Darque Intent.1674:

Yeah the end of the event is odd. Since the last beta I thought there should be something in that hut with the throne like chair, but alas, nothing has appeared in there since launch.

It also seems odd that it’s not even decorated inside…

Look at the thing that hangs out in there, he trashed the place and ate the furniture!

Nah, he actually appears out of nowhere right when he smashes through the door. This is of course pure canon and not a side-effect of being in a computer game.

Gaile Gray.6028:

I understand, and that seems to be true. There are a nearly-infinite number of potential passwords, so hopefully everyone can choose one that suits him or her and all will be well — and more secure — in the future.

Near infinite you say?

I couldn’t find the exact password rules so I assumed the following:

• 100 characters max
• non-space printable ASCII characters only

Given these assumptions the number of potential passwords can be easily calculated as 94^100 – (blacklist size)

or approximately

205487477052359885945235685067246572
845424635839739738959838742603457313
014037104010284943436279326671344387
862112146511720036208770768568795279
366314788216602099004251084292188536
525947528204517376 possibilities.

However near infinite is at least 3 time more than that. ;D

Signet of Capture

Gwen as a hero!

Jade Sea and Echovald forest. Imagine how cool a half-melted Jade Sea would look like. With pitfalls, intricate underwater mazes, mining operations, luxon, weird sea monsters, and bandits or whoever! >:D

Josh Foreman.8250:

Apolyon.6937:

And even if it is not a JP, the labyrinth in Flame Temple Tombs in Diessa Plateau is a very good one.

Uh… I made Diessa Plateau and I don’t know what you’re referring to. Is it new content?

It’s this mini-dungeon: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Flame_Temple_Tombs

Pretty sure it’s been in since beta, you do a meta-event to attack a firey place and open up a portal that ports you into the mini-dungeon and then there’s some underwater parts with torches and tunnels or something. And some ruins and stuff.

Lots of videos on youtube, like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SVZnP-QCTQ

He’s Oola lab genius. Not Oola the great (though he is great too)

Icelin, have you tried entering the Chantry of Secrets in Bloodtide Coast as Hazteur suggests?

As for the little gold star, note that you won’t see it yourself, so you’ll have to ask someone else if they see a gold star on you.

Good luck getting your world completion rewards!

Fortunately no one has hurled abuse at me in chat for killing their enemy or keeping their NPC alive yet, if it happens I’ll simply report and ignore them.

There are tons of places to get dodging or reviving done super fast without needing to get mad at people. Like the Thaumanova reactor! There are little asura corpses left and right, tons of kill variety, a fair amount of veterans, and little ice turrets that can be easily dodged.

Things too crowded on your server? Then just guest or go somewhere else…

The log-in screen for GW1 claims that max password length is 100. It was raised to this from the previous length (15) in preparation for GW2, so that might be a good guess as the maximum allowed length.

http://eu.guildwars.com/news/article/password_length_change/

It’s not punishment.

• At level 80 you have access to plenty of skill points, more trait points, better equipment, and better consumables than someone at lower level. This can make an enormous difference over someone of lower level.

• At level 80 you also get better loot, even in low level areas.

• If there wasn’t level scaling then doing low level stuff would be way way too easy. High level characters can always blaze through low level content, they’re plenty powerful already.

• ANet has already already added one new level 80 zone (admittedly not the most popular), and it’s likely there will be more in the future.

100% ladies. Sorry guys but you just don’t have enough pretty clothes.

There’s a spot in Lion’s Arch, at the end of the Trolls’ End JP, where you can fall through to behind / inside some terrain.

The “entrance” is that wall just behind my character in the screenshot. It can be passed through.

Also while I’m at it, that one story mission where the pale tree puts you in dream-orr is a little rough around the edges if you deliberately go wandering. Especially going past where you’re supposed to, and messing around to the far south and hugging the boundary to the east and jumping around.

Elric Of Melnibone.4781:

The complexity would be fine if they gave us a storage mechanism to handle the item bloat. Having at least one of everything on hand to properly use discovery is just not possible with space requirements. I ended up ‘cheating’ and looking up recipes because I never had that one last ingredient, usually intermediate, on hand.

Also, it would be easier to craft if you could right click on a missing ingredient you have already crafted and bring up that recipe because the recipe list is also ridiculously long.

This is definitely possible if you have a lot of bank space you can dedicate to discovery and are careful about organizing things. I did it myself, and got my discovery list completely empty by systematically finding recipes until there weren’t any left. Since then I’ve peeked at some of the trickier recipes introduced in updates, but that’s mainly because it would be too expensive to get all my intermediate ingredients back just to find a lone recipe or two.

Cantha Courier Crisis!

It has the ultimate attack: Falken Punch

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Cantha_Courier_Crisis

I kinda like it. I had a lot of fun discovering everything.

If you only need one of something why not just buy it from the trading post? Or buy the immediate ingredients from the trading post? This is usually cheaper than crafting your way all the way up the chain anyway.

And if you need a ton of something and want to craft it all the way from scratch for some reason, you’ll put in (about) the same amount of effort as crafting just one.

I completed it in the first stage of the event (tar elementals) with four other people.

I just love having item space so I’ve been accumulating it since release.
I got all the bank tabs, 5 extra character slots, my own private guild bank (just 50 slot for now), extra bag slots for my main, two 20 slot bags from the lost shores event, and plenty of 15 slot bags.

The Bowl of Candy Corn Ice Cream has a placeholder icon. see attachment.

Esrever.8613:

lots and lots of candy corn

Speaking as someone who has around 45,000 pieces of candy corn (and growing!), I would really like this. I don’t personally think it will happen though.

I was reading a thread with kitten in the title, then I looked at the address bar in my browser and saw kitten in the title instead of kitten. kitten /p>

Oops, and I was expecting the filter to hit the thread title here but it didn’t, I should be more kitten careful xD

I spent 3000 gems (farmed from in-game gold) and got EVERYTHING halloween related from the gem store excluding the black lion chest prizes or halloween finishers.

Hopefully I’ll be able to do the same on the next holiday, but I’m not sure whether or not I’ll play enough to farm another 3000 gems or so (preferably more to sell the excess when demand spikes) by then.

Ryth.6518:

You have to wait till Act IV.

But you should be able to get 4 points in EotMK already. And the screenshot shows everything that can be done, already done. Attending the party might only get that person to 4 points but not all the way and that would be bad.

Hehe, I had the exact same suggestion with a lot more rambling in my post.

Linking to it not to steal your thunder, I just think it’s good to have everything linked together

Sorry if this is premature and there’s already plans for this bag or something I overlooked, but

I did the act 3 event today (totally awesome btw) and got a 10 Slot Trick-or-Treat bag, but it is soulbound and my character is already maxed out on 15 slot bags so I can’t even use it. Bummer!

Bank space is somewhat limited (even after buying all the bank slots) so I don’t want to keep it around in there forever, but I also don’t want to just toss it.

I know bags don’t do much and I’d almost never look at it, but the icon is nice and it can remind me of this halloween event.

So it would be great if there was a crafting or mystic forge recipe that let you upgrade it to a bigger size when combined with another bag or rune of holding or something.

While I’m here, one quick related suggestion: make future-year halloween drops go directly into the ToT bag, similar to how other categories of bags work.

I could be wrong, but I think costume brawl will actually be available year round.

Kasen.9032:

Anrothan Aimhirghin.7381:

I just want the Mini pets I have all and need more to my collection!

Do you know where the mini pets are going to come from?

The gem store will have some according to their halloween page

All kinds of tricks and treats are coming to the Gem Store this Halloween. Costumes that grant spooky skills, tonics that transform you into ghouls and ghosts, creepy crawly minis to follow you around. And don’t forget to pick up your free devil horns before they disappear!

The details, and whether or not that’s the only way, remains to be seen.

Cancer.9065:

Stevoli.8795:

If they did allow instance switching, it would be a nice way to look for non-bugged skill challenges and events as well.

But you know how that goes, as soon as they implemented it, people would start switching instances and farming the same crafting nodes and mobs in one area over and over.

What if they implement it for the cities only ?

Lion’s Arch has a few crafting nodes.

EDIT: Aaaand it started working for me again out of the blue, yay pirate outfit!

I cannot buy items from the gem store (or it doesn’t get delivered at any rate! I hope I didn’t buy the pirate outfit like 3 times XD), and the spot where it should show how many gems I have is either blank (gem store) or “…” (currency exchange).

I can still convert gold to gems (without seeing the result obviously) or gems to gold with no problem.

Anyone else have this problem? I really want that pirate outfit :P