Guild Wars 2

With the increase in rares and the decreased value of ectos, for about the past 3 weeks ive been mf everything, even greens. I’d sell of the yellows worth 28s or more, then the rest was thrown into the mf. At 1st i was getting a good flow of exotics, prob around 1/4 mf rolls. Then came the 1 week drought where no matter how many yellows i threw in the toilet, i got no upgrades, but i kept at it. Then yesterday, BOOM, a precurser. I couldn’t believe it. I lost about 20g in yellows during the drought, but in the end it paid off, bigtime.

The new dyes are ok, but nothing special. To me nothing can beat black and white unless we get particle effect dye’s, transparent (ghostly), or shiney matallic dyes (juggernaut look). Not just another dyes who’s color is 1 shade off a dye thats worth 1s, eventhough these are RARE, who can tell that on an armor? They arn’t eye catching enough to justify the price. If i pay alot it must be cool. Please make awsome new dyes EYECATCHING and AMAZING.

I got a shard today, nothing’s broken. I too have accumulated quite a few extras. I think the best way to get them, is doing ascalon & dredge maps on lvl 30+. the higher the level the more mobs, and the higher the tier of condensed mist. Good luck.

I wonder if this is what the mass ban was?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Perma-Banned-for-exploit-merged/first

A dev wrote, a vague response not admitting what the exploit was:

We closed a serious but not-widespread exploit, and banned those accounts that performed it and those that received or stored the wealth they generated.

While performing the bans, we made a mistake and additionally banned some unrelated accounts. We identified the mistake and unbanned those accounts.

For those still banned, if you wish to appeal, you may submit a support ticket and the team will examine your case.

Focus on map completions (hearts, skill points, & points of interest)and dynamic events (orange quests shown on the map at random times), they give good exp for lvling.

You can find a black lion auction house rep and buy cheap gear on the trading post, to help keep you from dieing. I wouldn’t worrie about pvp & wvw untill you learn the game a little better.

The wiki shows some upcomming plans, which i look forward to.

Structured PvP:

New maps.

Objectives other than conquest.

Rentable custom arenas in Structured PvP, for customizable scrimmages and duels.

World versus World:

Improving the commander functionality: Being discussed, but not being worked on yet.

Making Siegeweapons not soul bound: Planned, but currently not possible due to internal programming issues.

Dueling: The ability to duel other players in world.

Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Upcoming_changes_and_features

Nocturnal.5023:

Won’t the 3s of Lyssa’s buffs be wasted ? I thought you can’t do any actions when you used the invulnerable renewed focus.

Lyssa’s buffs are 5s, the invincibility is 3s, and nothing’s waisted. As soon as you hit renewing focus you become invincible 3s, and takes 2s to finish casting, but while casting it you CAN move, but CAN’T cast skills. However you can activate virtues, once the casting of RF is over, the virtues are reset, and you get Lyssa’s buffs. So basically hit 0, then f1, f2, f3.

Astral Projections.7320:

Aeonblade.8709:

There is that one decent one on my Guard…well…kinda.

There is? My guardian wants to know which one. ^^ I use Renewed Focus because I tried the other 2 and they seemed to be overwhelmingly underwhelming. And then that long cooldown starts.

They should make the elite slot capable of holding utility skills. It would be more useful then.

With my guardian, i use Renewed Focus all the time. Using the Guardian of Lyssa Build: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/73978-guardian-of-lyssa-build-unkillable-self-healer-w-great-dps/

Basically runes of lyssa’s 6th bonus is loose all conditions and gain all buffs for 5 secs. So every 90 secs i can become invincible (3s), hit all my virtues as soon as i use RF (gaining an aegis, burning, and healing), along with all buffs and loosing all conditions. It’s instantly saved my kitten many times.

The wiki shows some upcomming plans, which i look forward to.

Structured PvP:

New maps.

Objectives other than conquest.

Rentable custom arenas in Structured PvP, for customizable scrimmages and duels.

World versus World:

Improving the commander functionality: Being discussed, but not being worked on yet.

Making Siegeweapons not soul bound: Planned, but currently not possible due to internal programming issues.

Dueling: The ability to duel other players in world.

Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Upcoming_changes_and_features

I bought one for each of my characters aswell. It’s only for a limited time offer, and in a game thats about skins and looks, why wouldn’t you get one?

Before knocking it, you need to see the animation effect it makes. Legendary weps cost 2k gold & the only benifit from a cheaper alternative is a cool skin. For those that have the money it’s the same idea, 22g and never buy another pick again, and look amazing while mining. Sounds good to me. I’d rather buy it now then regret it down the road when they are no longer availible.

You can get all ascended gear in 1m 20 days per char.

1 ascended earring (12 commadations + 5g) = 6 weeks of bountys (2 comms per week)
1 ascended earring (40 laurels + 12g for 50 ecto) = 4 weeks (with monthly)
1 ascended amulet (30 laurels) = 3 weeks (with monthly)
2 ascended rings (20 pristine relics) = 3 weeks (assuming you are lvl 10+ fractal)
1 back (1850 relics or 1 vial + gold) = ? (depends on fractal lvl or which piece you make via forge)

That’s the 1m and 20 days plan, with full dedication, it’s enough time to get everything. Just do an even # fractal everyday, your guild mission every week, and your dailys & monthlys. It’s so easy, right?

So i’m thinking of spending 70g on mighty infusions for my ascended earrings. I worrie about them later adding a way to get an infused version. Has there been any dev comment about future plans for this, or is it certanly never going to happen.

I’m a bit of a perfectionest and really want my extra 10 power, but 70g a bit much to loose.

I know everyone is aware of this, i just want to know if this plans to be fixed?

A friend of mine made The Anomaly, and did ok. It sells for around 120g, and takes 250 skill points, 250 ecto, and 100 mystic coins.

250 ecto x .25 = 62.5g
100 mystic coins x .05 = 5g
120g – 67.5g = 52.5g profit
52.5g / 250 skill points = 21 silver per skill point

Atleast its better then 10 silver or less. It’s high demand skin aswell, his sold within a day for 120g.

Thanks Josh for releasing this info. I got the greatsword skin and really loved it, but after seeing many with it, and hearing about SAB’s future releases, was having 2nd thoughts about keeping it forever.

I think this info does make this instance of the SAB series more special. Knowing we will never have an oppritunity to have these skins again is huge. I missed holloween, and always wish i’d of played then, because of the sick skins that were released. When i saw this event i got really excited, and must say i love limited edition items. After hearing it’d be released every 3-4 months, it kinda ruined the limited edition feeling a bit, since everyone would have them. But you’ve rejuvenated my passion for this event.

Thanks for being so awesome.

Glad i found this because i was about to buy the anomaly, its a shame too because i love that skin. I’ll go with the flux matrix instead, it should be hardly noticable, yet still look cool.

I got a question about my clones though, what all isn’t shown on them? such as the shiny fractal capacitor can that be seem in all its shinyness on clones? Or legendary weapons and effects?

and add a bikini or underwear dye, i’m tired of yellow.

The next time SAB comes out they will be less farmable. This time people can constantly running it in about 12m. The new changes to how the skins are obtained will not be 12m for 3 chests.

The most popular skin is the greatsword, the new skins it will effect the odds of it dropping. Currently there are 7 droppable skins(1/7 odds for greatsword), but adding daggers, hammers, rifles, axes, ect. The odds for a greatsword drop will be half then current odds, add in the changes to “make players play the content” and greatsword will be harder to get.

You can see on gw2spidy how much demand for these skins there are and how much supply. Most are around 50-80 supply and 200+ demand, so kinda informs you where the market could be heading.

Where is the market floor? looks like it may have passed. When i look at any skin i see multiple buy orders from same buy, and i scroll down the list and there is tons. A crap ton need to be farmed to fill all these orders, before price can fall. People have way to much gold in this game, & with only 50 of each type on the market someone with 10k gold can easily buy out skins to manipulate the market.

Everyone assumes anet will have the new world out in a few months, but it’s uncertain could be next April. Unavailible skins go up over time, holloween has been 6 months, and look how much those wanted skins raised, with no supply. I know these can be gotten other ways, but people are constantly making new char, and new ppl join the game aswell, over time these availible skins will be used.

Many seem to think that the supply will overcome the amount of buy orders, and the price will fall in the next 2 weeks. But what if the opposite happens.? Everyone gets sick of running the instance, & less skins are supplied, then many realize that this is there last chance to buy skins, so everyone starts buying.

No one knows it’s for sure, it’s all speculation.

I thought it’s wierd you got one for free initially. To trick ppl, instead of the vending machine (free), put a Shady Merchant (5g) for a coin. It makes the ppl that earned thier coins from jp chest, or farming chest in real world to get 25 babbles to get a continue coin better. Continue coins are pretty worthless now, i never die 5 times running it. The 1st day it came out tons would of blown 5g to play immediately, only to find out later it was easy to get a coin and wouldn’t of waisted gold. ha ha suckerz!

“and definitely not May either”

Where did he say that?

I thought i followed his comments pretty close, but I might have missed this one. I def heard not April, but after that i thought it was open.

What makes you think The Super Adventure Box is a jumping puzzle?

It has a Nintendo controller, and “a game within a game” sounds like a gw spin on an old Nintendo game to me. With “adventure” hopefully being the key word, makes it sound like an old school Zelda adventure style mini game. That’s what i was thinking anyways.

It’s called a cattlepult

Aside from loosing the gold 1st time i seen it, it was my favorate & comical part out of the whole game & i did the 100% map completion.

Halarious! As the cows are being fired, the guards at the tower are talking about it raining cows & trying to figure out why cows are falling from the air. Then a guard asks Mad if he is launching cows at him, which he denies, The whole thing just cracked me up when i saw it.

Maybe it should say “wiff” and “whoosh,” atleast something would be nice when your not in a brawl, but just playing around.

yeah i was expecting same thing. i seen this video:

But after buying they dont fuction like this.

I honestly think guesting isn’t a huge problem.

The real problem: I’m in very large guild, and many ppl have 3-5 characters. As each event happens ppl will announce it in guild chat, and swarms of us go to the event. With every player doing each event with every char they have, that’s what’s causing the problem. There are many people on each of these servers, each server has massive guilds of 500 members with 100+ members online all doing events.

I think most ppl are already getting bored with doing these events nonstop. Everyday i see less and less of my guild at these events. Overflow is already getting better on my server aswell.

The march 26th update fixes this problem (only 1 upgraded chest reward, per event, per account). I think this problem will be solved after this update.

Harathi Hinterlands~Ulgoth the Mondir

I did this today on an alt and got a rare, has this one been tested to be an upgraded chest?

I found this link aswell with other chest that might be upgraded http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Valuable_Chest
(not all have been tested thoroughly )

Anyone else agree/disagree, or have comments/suggestions?

Someone say something

In a game where the devs have some of the most balanced PvE gear, GW2 fails at making a balanced PK for PvE players.

Sure there’s WvW, but this isn’t a structured environment. Huge zergs of ppl fighting small groups, not much fun for for either group (unchallenging/impossible odds). Most zergs lead by a commander who is focused on taking objectives and earning points for their server. There isn’t enough action for me. You don’t get points for killing ppl, so many zergs skip fights to gain points faster. It’s kinda boring aswell because if you die you have to walk a million miles.

Why do we have to make a whole new char, where our time spent in PK is completely a waist of time (unrewarding). I see why they made the option to seperate it, to bypass the leveling process for those that don’t want to PVE at all. But that screws everyone else, that took time to build a char, yet wants to fight actual people in a structured environment.

Improvement suggestions:

-Why can’t we have an arena where we have structured pvp, like 1 v 1, or 4 v 4 (earning tokens for kills, spendable at a merchant). I love pvp, but I dont like how it was implemented in this game.

-What happened to “guild wars,” guilds fighting against other guilds. I think this could atleast provide a little more action and structure then WvW.

-Make a PK server! Players could only guest to it, and every player gets a bonus 50% mf from all mobs and chests, but it’s all out war and chaos. Making it a good place for guilds to team up and play content.

I just think we need more then WvW and a completely seperate PvP. Just my opinion.

Send me an invite. I am also unable to complete most of the bounties with my guild, they are so unorganized with these missions it’s pathetic. They say noon and it’s like 3-4 hours later, so unpredicable that i’ve only done 1 with them. What tiers are you doing each day?

I feel the same way, i still do fractals sometimes (if there’s time), but gaurenteed rares come 1st. To be honest, i think it’s pretty boring , I HATE waiting for 20+ min for a boss to spawn. I’ll do whats the most rewarding though, even if it’s boring.

Kinda reminds me of this run my buddy did with some idiot. At Jade Maw, this guy was picking up the crystal right as others were being targeted getting them killed, and telling people “this ones mine, find your own”. My friend said at one point he went afk a few mins holding a crystal, & was just being a total jerk to everyone. So after Jade Maw died, they kicked him before he got the chest. I thought it was pretty funny & served him right. I hope he learned a lesson.

I know this wasn’t the case with your group, but just reminded me of what he said and i thought i’d share it.

I think some are being to judgemental of ppls names, i’d rather judge someone on their skill then their name.

I saw a Sylvari named Half Man Half Salad and got a chuckle, funny names are good if they’re actually funny.

I have a HOT mesmer named I Eye Candy I, mainly because i didn’t want a bunch of 14 year old kids hitting on me, and the real Eye Candy was taken (of course). I figured the name Eye Candy implies that there’s a guy playing the character, & if im looking at a computer screen 4+ hours a day might aswell have something good to look at. It seemed a fitting name to me

Sounds good, i’ll try to make it.

Don’t forget to factor in that damage while dead = 0 (plus you’re lowering another person’s damage if they rez you).

I got a green lvl 80 rebreather from a cursed shore karma agent.

Someone told me that was best one currently, which i’m unsure if that’s correct, because it seems strange as its only a green.

If there isn’t any better, they should make the next ascended item a rebreather because it would have huge stat bonus over current one. Everyone would strive to gain the difference in stats between a green and ascended lvl stats.

It wouldn’t effect wvw to much either since i’ve only seen a few underwater battles, pretty rare occurance.

What do you think?

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I had this problem with the temple heavy head, what i ended up doing is going to ascalon catacombs and buying that exotic helm with power toughness and vit, then buying any temple helm, and used a fine transmorphing stone to swap the skins and stats to how i wanted. You can get what you want its just more effort.