Guild Wars 2

laokoko.7403:

Can’t you guys just spend a bit of those thousands of playing hours farming for gold.

A guy is flashing his 10 legendary in the crafting forum. And he says he just farm.

A reasonable point, however, I’m not talking about crafting a legendary. I actually place a higher priority on playing the game for fun, making a legendary would drive me mad. The most money Iv ever seen is 80g all of which I farmed. Don’t get me wrong, I can get by with the level of farming I do, im currently sitting on 40g with 4 fully kitted 80’s. I just wish that just one time, I could find 300g without having to work and work and work for it. And Im just wondering what the odds are of that still happening.

Hello,

Today I managed to cap a new milestone in gw2 reaching 1800 hrs played, and yet the best drop Iv come across in those 1800 hrs is Tsunami (an exotic scepter with the same skin as the precursor storm) which I sold at the time for 7g 35s.

I decided to makes this thread to gain a perspective on loot drops usually obtained by players with roughly similar hours to me, or Just loot drops for other players in general.
I just want to know that its average for a player with my amount of hours to have found literally nothing worth more than 8g in my entire game play experience. Every silver that I have made in this game to fund my builds and other expenses I have grinded for over many long hours.

So share with me your “luck” Is my experience the norm? Or does everyone find items worth lots of gold every now and then?

Iv always looked forward to finding a precursor and being able to afford all those nice skins I see on people, but with 1800 hrs already spent Im starting to doubt that that happy day will ever come.

Run prismatic understanding.

You will never lose in a 1v1.

Ever.

Maybe at 25% health you get granted an F2 blinding powder that you have 2 seconds to use before it expires?

This would be nice, but I’d imagine that it would require some serious coding.

Its not really a change to the spec, just allow us to deactivate it. The only reason I see for its continued existence is if Anet is intentionally nerfing thieves by having that trait there.

I’d do anything to get rid of it. You guys seems to be interested in a replacement for it, or maybe a buff for it?

All I want is for it to be gone. Dont care about replacements. It would make my day to just not have any minor trait in that slot of SA.

Please Anet get rid of 3s of revealed at 25% health aka “last refuge”. Fitting name for it really, as it will probably be the last thing you ever do on that life.

Atmosphere.7451:

They just need to change the mechanics of reveal to say, one attempt of stealth clears the revealed debuff. It prevents spammable stealth for the most part unless you’re willing to sacrifice a lot of initiative to get there. Last refuge may still cause problems this way, but not nearly as many.

Nope tbh, i would still rather do without it completely than have this halfway solution.^^^

Auesis.7301:

Instead of removing Reanimator, like every sane Necromancer has begged them to do for months, they buffed it.

We’re not losing Last Refuge.

This is true, but Reanimator doesn’t spell death for necro’s in a fight. 3s of revealed for thieves is a lifetime, especially when you don’t notice it, due to Bp dropping without warning.

RyuDragnier.9476:

I have a feeling it’s a trait meant for WvW, because it has saved my life so kitten often there. Getting beaten up by a group of people constantly knocking me around, and suddenly it kicks in, giving me stealth and confusing them long enough for me to start dashing away, throwing every stealth giving ability I have out. That baby saves lives in WvW.

Shadow step saves me in those sorts of situations, which i tend to avoid most of the time anyway. Of course Last refuge has saved me in the past, but 95% of the time, its killed me.
I want it gone. I don’t even care if Anet doesn’t give us a replacement.

Just plz Anet, get rid of it.

Was just about to make a thread on this, but instead im going to bump this one. I know its ancient but this is still a problem for thieves. Im really getting tired of a trait that basically grants revealed at 25% health. I’d be happy with an option to turn this blasted trait off. It helps the enemy.

Ok I fixed mine by using my backup Dat file and re downloading the winter’s day patch

Still doesn’t work for me.

I repaired my client thinking it was a client issue, now i cant even load into the game without it crashing.

Exactly the same problem, I also tried repairing the client as instructed. Identical result.

Other people having this problem too.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Login-Servers-down/first#post3370717

It would appear that we are not the only ones with this problem:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Login-Servers-down/first#post3370717

Just gonna add my voice to this list, was in WvW got kicked for the new patch, which never arrived. Continuously kicked to desktop whenever I log in. Cant download the new patch.

EDIT: On JQ

Just a moment ago when the match ups reset in WvW, everyone was kicked off the game back to their desktops where they downloaded the new patch. However the patch never showed up for me. Every time I launch the game, it loads into the game normaly as if i’v already downloaded the patch. Yet when I join WvW, it kicks me back to the gw2 launcher as if I was about to download something, but then it doesn’t and i can start the game again. I keep doing trying to join WvW to trigger the download but nothing works.

Iv tried restarting my pc already.

Ok throughout this entire thread, all im seeing is people saying that WvW players have no excuse as to explain why they cant get ascended gear. They’re claming all the crafting mats are easy to come by. Basically your right. But please, explain to me how you pull out hundreds of gold from WvW to craft to 500. Iv been playing this game since october last year. The most gold Iv had at any given time is 73. The most expensive gear item iv EVER found was tsunami, which i sold for 7 gold.

The mats are easy to come by. But where the hell are you WvW players like myself, pulling out hundreds of gold to pay for crafting? Im happy with my wallet when I have more than 20g in it. There is just no way to make hundreds of gold from WvW only. Correct me if i’m wrong.

PS: telling me that I need to Zerg 10hrs a day is not a solution to me. The casual player does not have those hours.

Hello, just here to let you guys at Anet know that I stumbled onto a way to glitch underneath the map of the obsidian sanctum. Dont want to blurt out how I did it, so im really just making this thread to ask how do I go about reporting this bug to staff, without letting the entire community know of its existence and the method to doing it.

Zikory.6871:

Hi Doug,

Can you name any or all of the guilds Blackgate “bought” and the amounts paid? Also can you clarify your definition of “bought” under this context so we can keep things clear. Looking forward to your insight on the matter.

Hello, there.
The first guild that Iv noticed roaming around make a considerable difference is the red zerg we all know as ZD, however it seems that you already are aware of this purchase. When I say purchase, i dont mean every single member’s transfer is paid for. Unless ZD is a unique guild, what usually happens is the high ranking officals pocket the gold and use their influence to convince the underlings to transfer with them. After all, if they enjoy running with their guild, most of them would be happy to transfer. Now, this time, i dont have confirmation that is how it worked. Im basing this “assumption” and yes it is an assumption, on how other people I know, who have been part of a “bought” guild were not paid a single bronze.

Now lets get one thing clear. If the amount of guilds bg bought is exaggerated, then so be it. In the future, I will endeavour to provide sources whenever making such a post. I have heard from reliable sources that what Iv said is true, in the case of ZD I know it is. However being in the middle of uni exams, researching what server bought what guild for how much is pretty low on my list. I simply made an observation, nothing more.

PS: I dont mind losing, im a roamer, i dont zerg, i find it boring and repetitive anyway and the queue’s are short with a heap of enemies to fight. Its all good for me! 2 mins queue on eb!@!$ ftw!!

Sam Gem.1246:

Why is JQ and SoR playing dead? I mean, JQ was doing well for the first few days, then I hear SoS was bought by BG. SoR didn’t cooperate after a few days. Why is this happening?

Simple. JQ was given an easy matchup. Before I explain, its worthy to take note that JQ has a massive pve pop. Now, because of the easy matchup JQ was given all these “pve kids” jumped into WvW to join the never ending karma train and get easy achievement points. Thats all WvW was on jq for the past month. 5 hr queue’s and karma train. Now in the latest matchup we’re fighting bg. When fighting bg, there is no karma train. You actually have to defend stuff!!! Not just flip sm whenever you feel like it. So, with the karma train gone, all the pve players went back to pve. We’ve lost out blob. Yes, im on JQ. The queue for eb atm is either hotjoin or 10 mins max. Contrasts to the past few weeks where its been 3 hrs minimum.

TL;DR
JQ blob = Pve players. Pve players karma train. BG = a need to defend stuff. Defending = no loot or karma. Pve players go back to frost forge.

PS: to add salt to the injury bg has been buying/renting guilds left right and center. At one point, they bribed an sos guild so focus us. Not that im complaining, there are no rules in war.

WvW players don’t care about pve. So unless your going to bring WvW into pve, keep Pve out of WvW. That is all.

Bump……. (15 chars blah blah blah blah)

I’m still waiting for an answer on this?

hey, just today i thought i would try runes of torment on my Mesmer. The runes apply 45% more torment duration, however, my illusionary counter skill, does not increase past 14 and a half seconds. In fact, the 14.5 seconds is the result of the food buffs im using (40% condi duration) and my weapon stats (10% condi duration in each hand). The torment runes dont seem to apply any addition torment duration whatsoever. No idea if this is a bug for any other class or just mes. replaced traveller runes with these runes, so as you can imagine iv blown a fair amount of cash here (didn’t want to salvage arah Armour) and am a bit put out that it was all for nothing. Would appreciate feed back. Thxs

EDIT: Update, I just added a sigil of torment to my weapons, and i’v discovered that the runes do effect the duration of the torment given through that sigil, but still have no effect on the torment given through a mesmer scepter 2 attack.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRArf8alwzCrHTzoGb9IipHBXvBckUUavWJF42FC-jUCBohgYNCy5QFRjtuuIasKZQaGYqUJVxCWHDQKAYmDA-w
As seen in the above link, my build should deal 18 seconds of torment on the number 2 scepter. However, In game, I am only able to apply 14 and a half seconds.

It would appear that these runes work with every other class, and skill including mesmers. It would seem that the number 2 on the scepter is the only skill that remains un-affected by the torment duration buff.

Thxs

Punny.9210:

Every thread i have read here. All of them say how long queue in EB is. Have you actually queue other maps ?. Most of hardcore wvwer dont really care which map they go. It kinda makes me think these threads are from pve er.

ppl who have been in T1 for long. These queue are actually nothing new >> it’s more like reminding the good old days though

Get into EB? hahahahahaha
Good one.

Been able to get into EB twice since leagues started.
3 hr queue for Home BL

Jayne.9251:

I thought they were getting their own set of servers because of the anticipated influx of players and will have nothing to do with the EU/NA existing game?

Perhaps this is true? As I said, im looking for more info on this.

Hello there.

So, to the point, ill just begin by pointing out the obvious. We all know how bad the queue times are presently, especially in the T1 servers. I know that most of you are accustomed to 3 hour queue’s to get into EB. These queue times are nothing to what we’re going to be waiting in the future. I don’t know how many of you know this, but as point of fact, gw2 is currently being developed for the Chinese, and will be released soon.

SOURCE:
http://www.mmoculture.com/2013/07/guild-wars-2-2nd-test-phase-for-china-begins-in-september/

Now, its excellent to see that more people will be introduced to gw2. However, I would now like all of you to think of the current state of gw2 WvW, mainly the skill lag and the queue’s.
Now I want you to imagine how bad these things will be once another billion people are introduced to the potential of becoming apart of the community. So, to the head of my point, more people are going to be drawn to gw2 because its such an amazing game. The WvW world servers need to be improved! If the cap for WvW is not increased with better performing servers, then we could be looking at queue’s of up to six hours. I believe the new “edge of the mists” map will give idle WvW players something to do in these queue’s, but once this new population is introduced to the game, the edge of the mists is as close as the average gamer, who cant afford 6 hours of waiting time, will ever get to real WvW. And those lucky people who do, will have to wait another 6 hours for their number 1 skill to go off.

Now, I haven’t spent hours researching all these facts, If i have gotten anything incorrect, please correct me. If iv missed anything please enlighten me. Because tbh, my main drive for making this thread is so that someone can inform me Im wrong, or there’s a solution that Iv overlooked.

Discuss.

Victory.2879:

I know I’m biased, as I hate JP’s with a passion- probably because I’ve always played games with more depth than Mario Bros 1. Even my daughter only played jumping games for a couple months before moving on to something that requires more than the brain of an 8 year old and reflexes to match.

I appreciate that some people enjoy JP’s- in which case I can recommend several other platform games that should keep you happy so there is no need for you to play GW2.

If what I’m reading is correct, JP will once again be filled by gankers and idiots who delight in preventing others from getting through this rubbish in order to fully complete a WVW achievement meta.

Maybe Anet should look at the figures for JP usage in wvw before they brought in this ‘achievement’ and replaced JP with something wvw related like defending towers or one of several other things.

It’s a desperate attempt by Anet to get people back into the JP’s and encouraging the scrubs that enjoy ganking and generally being kittens back into their liar. Sadly it will work.

I’ll be that toon that you see swearing a lot as I fall off for the hundredth time, or manage to almost reach the top before a mesmer pulls me off, or a group of 5 thiefs gank me, etc..

Probably see the return of the JP train – where the commander takes the entire zerg into the JP to get it finished so we can move on and do some real wvw.

Not everything in this game is designed to be easy. Some pve players complain that they need to WvW for map completion.

You are no different than these people. The jp’s are not that difficult. Most people can do the EB jp in less than 10 mins.

Adapt.

I agree with you 100%, in tier 1 WvW (I’m in JQ) Guilds jump across servers like catching connecting trains. If what you say is true about the cost to join AR, thats ridiculous.