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Apostate armor?

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Yeah, I just found out about this too, it blows that it’s only available on certain leveling weapons and I think jewelry. This needs to be a full-fledged stat set, I’ve been looking for this exact stats combo for my necro for ages.

ESPECIALLY now that conditions are gonna actually, y’know…not suck.

Troll's End veggies?

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First of all, I LOVE the transitional Lion’s Arch. Way back when it first got destroyed, I was telling people how cool I thought it would be if you did exactly this…gradually rebuilding it in-game. I didn’t think it would actually happen, though. I thought we’d just log in one day and it would be completely rebuilt. Kudos.

If I might make one teeny weeny little suggestion, though? Have the cleanup team plant new harvestable plants on the ledge just before the end chest of Troll’s End. It just won’t feel like LA again without those veggies back. xD

Death Animations

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The death animations aren’t tied to your weapon of choice but rather the type of attack you used to kill the mob.

Certain Legendaries trigger it too. Bolt for Electricity and The Predator for Fire, that I know of.

Death Animations

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Any chance of getting the fire and electricity death animations put on weapons that aren’t Legendaries, but are visually appropriate for said animations?

I’ve got Mjölnir, which is kitten ed NEAR a Legendary considering how much 350 Charged Lodestones cost. I feel the effort put into acquiring it could justify some special animation.

Maybe burning death for Volcanus too, etc.

Guild kick prevention?

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I seem to have just discovered a safeguard that attempts to keep you from kicking too many people in your guild at once, which is somewhat comforting to know is there…

…or it would be, had I not used the word “attempts”. It seems to be far from foolproof. I right click a name on the guild’s roster, and after a moment “Kick from Guild” turns to “Guild Invite” so when you try to click it, rather than kicking them it just gives you the message that you can’t invite them because they’re already in the guild.

It takes a moment, though, and it’s not terribly hard to be faster than it and still kick. Seems kind of pointless, I’d say either fix it or remove it entirely.

Oh, if anyone was wondering the REASON why I’m kicking hundreds of people from a guild, it’s not that I went power-mad with a grudge or anything. We just compiled a google documents list over the last few months, painstakingly and by hand, of the people we actually see repping now and then.

We don’t have a 100% rep requirement, which is nice for the friendly, casual atmosphere…but comes back to bite us when we hit capacity and need to clear some space. We can’t just kick whoever’s online but not repping at the moment like I imagine the bigger, hardcore guilds do. I mean, we TOLD them it’s not 100% rep.

It’s kind of a huge pain in the kitten that wouldn’t be necessary if we could sort the list by Last Repped. Hint hint, Anet.

Fractal Rewards

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Yes, it’s that time again, folks. Time for me to point out how ludicrous it is that you can do a Fractal 50, having done all the work of getting your reward level that high and getting all ascended swag to max out your AR, and get…nothing for it. “Oh, wow, empyreal fragments…thanks.”

So few people do fractals, moreso because the reward system is borked than because of difficulty and time investment, I think. While the third item you get other than a pristine relic and empyreal fragments is technically, at this point, considered a “bonus” item…if it’s something you get MOST of the time, those odd times when you don’t get it make it feel like a ripoff.

Especially when higher difficulty doesn’t seem to equate to higher reward. When there’s no difference in your reward chances between a 29 and a 50, why bother?

Fractal 50

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Firstly, whoever told you about the respawning Irukandjis was mistaken. It’s not that they never stop REspawning, but that don’t DEspawn once you kill the two tentacles at the start of the fight. Granted, the fight is still more difficult and tedious because of this. My guild group usually retreats to the “safe corner” and attempts to draw in Irukandjis one group at a time to handle them without being overwhelmed.

Secondly, the jump in difficulty is not actually that bad. Beyond the obligatory Agony Resistance, the enemies hit a tad harder. Other than that, I can’t recall any distinct differences off the top of my head.

Also, I’m afraid my guild group is almost always full when doing fractal runs. But, if we have a free spot, I can send you a message ingame to invite you along.

Ahhhh okay, that makes a lot more sense. I was trying to picture the fight while simultaneously dealing with them and I was just like “How would that even work?”…but just having to clear them at the start doesn’t sound like a big deal.

Fractal 50

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Okay, so…yesterday I finally got my personal reward level from 49 to 50, and got my main Fractaller to 70 AR. Yay me. It was hard finding groups for 40+ scales because, let’s face it, the whole Fractals reward system is borked…but that’s another post entirely.

My question is, how crazy is the jump in difficulty at 50? Should I be legit worried? I’ve heard it gets crazy but I can’t seem to find any information on the specifics of what’s different, other than having heard someone mention once that at 50 the windrider things at Jade Maw never stop respawning.

Furthermore, I’m looking for a permanent group of people who are likewise insane and willing to frequently run Frac50’s in spite of sometimes getting LITERALLY nothing for it. Because I’ve about had it with the LFG tool idling out my ad, and suppressing me for spamming after I put it back up one too many times.

A Treatise on Tipping

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Wow. Just got home, didn’t expect this to get nearly this much attention/debate. This is about the reception I was anticipating, though, in terms of sentiment if not quantity.

Half “he’s whining because he wants money”, half “he’s on a mission to civilize”. Which is fair, I suppose. My choice of phrasing may have been somewhat contradictory, I can see how people are interpreting it as “Yeahhhhh I’m not saying I want more money, but….I totally want more money.” :P

And I suppose it is naive to resent not getting tips when you’re unwilling to ask for them, someone pointed out that a simple “, tips appreciated.” at the end of the port announcement isn’t unreasonable rather than expecting people to read minds about it.

Like I said, it’s not ABOUT the money, it’s about feeling like you aren’t taken for granted. And a small, pittance amount of coin can be a good way to convey that. Some people tip, some people say thanks, some people do both…and some people do nothing, and that kind of bugs me more than perhaps it should. Not enough to actually say something to them about it, mind you, but enough for my inner monologue to be like “…ingrate.” as they accept a port and then just silently run off.

A Treatise on Tipping

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Umm porting doesnt cost anything if you port in town to another wp in town.

True, but of all the JPs in the game only three of them are in a town.

Will Bolts of Damask ever drop in price?

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Fixing their mistake of requiring 100 bolts of silk instead the standard 50 would obviously help some.

This, so much this. Not only is silk the hardest of the mats to reliably gather, but it also takes double the amount of it for some reason.

A Treatise on Tipping

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I debated over making this post or not, but ultimately decided nothing ever gets better unless you talk about it. The TL;DR essence of it boils down to: tip your Mesmers, people! Now, onto my reasoning.

I didn’t get into Mesmerism to make money. I still remember the first time I got a port for a JP, it was to Sharkmaw in sunny old non-destroyed LA. Someone pinged the WP, said they were porting…I didn’t even know what it was, but I saw a lot of people saying they were on their way so I figured hell, I’ll check it out.

Then BAM, through the magic purple gateway to free loot. I remember thinking that was the coolest thing I’d ever seen in an MMO, that you could do that for people. I knew right then that I wanted to make a Mesmer. More than that, that I wanted to get really good at JPs.

And not to be immodest, but I have. The ones people tend to have trouble with and need ports for, specifically. I run Not So Secret almost daily, because aside from the satisfaction of helping people with it, there’s 4 chests there in total and it’s pretty sweet loot.

It bothers me how few people tip, though. I never ASK for tips in-game, it feels…crass, somehow. I mean, this is a game after all, it’s not like I’m a waiter where if you don’t tip you’re an absolute kitten. This is a leisure activity, the ability to feed my kids doesn’t hinge on it or anything. But they’re appreciated, y’know?

It’s an easy way to say you appreciate the time and effort we’ve put into learning how to do these things so you don’t have to. I’m not asking for much, here. I’m not talking gold, I’m talking silver. If everyone who takes a port gave 5-10 silvers, which is really nothing…like, the cost of taking two or three far-away waypoints…that really adds up.

Or just use your own best judgement. Base it on what you can spare, and what not having to run that JP yourself is worth to you. If it’s one you didn’t really need, you already had the achievement for, you just happened to be passing by as the port was going down and you don’t tend to have a lot of liquid capital in-game, a few silver is plenty generous.

If it’s the last JP you need the achievement for, and you’ve been trying to do it for 3 hours and kept dying before I came along and offered to port, AND you’re rich anyway, AND possibly also got an exotic or something from the chest, maybe make it a few gold.

I’ve gotten some very generous tips before, for which I’m grateful. But they’re far outweighed by scores of people who gave nothing, not even so much as a “Thanks.” If everyone gave a little bit, it wouldn’t take the rare person who tips like 5G to balance it out. >_>;

Personally, I always tip 10 silver minimum if I’m the one receiving a portal on an alt or something. That adequately covers the WP cost of them getting there, the effort they spent running it and the time they saved me not running it.

Okay, /rant, have a super day and good luck with your loot.

New Report Options

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There are categories for reporting spammers, people who curse at you or insult you, people who try to scam you, etc…

But what about the SILENT kittenbags? The people who do horrible stuff that doesn’t involve verbal abuse, or even saying anything? People who use someone to help carry them through a dungeon and then kick them out at the last boss to invite friends, people who troll JPs with AOE swiftness to intentionally kill you, etc.

I’ve seen the whole “stuff will be decided based on chat logs, not unsubstantiated reports” disclaimer, and I understand the reasoning behind it. I certainly wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of some kind of disciplinary action because one person said I did something and had no proof. But at the same time, it seems crappy for the policy to be that we throw up our hands and accept there’s nothing we can do.

One person’s testimony may not mean much, but what if a pattern was established? If reports were received about a player’s quiet but bad behavior from enough people, over time, might that not lend some weight to the accusations? The odds of dozens of people, or however many reports it would take to get someone noticed, all making it up are rather slim.

Looking for high level fractal group

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Since nobody ever wants to do them and getting a group together takes so long that the LFG tool suppresses you for reposting your group every time it idles out…thought I’d ask here.

Scale 44, second level, Cliffside.

They need to start putting 40+ scales in the daily once in a while, or up the reward to motivate people to do them more…SOMETHING. It takes longer to put a group together than it does to run the kitten fractals.

Meta Events Forever Broken

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Wellp, there are now FOUR Sams on the TP. I will never be able to save up for one unless another precursor lands in my lap, because every time I farm up 40G in a day its price jumps by 50. Oh well. I’m sure it’ll be fixed Soon™ and the price will drop as a few more of them become available, right?

…right..?

Meta Events Forever Broken

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Status update:
Sky still blue.
Grass still green.
Curse still Forever Fourth.
Ogre Wars still broken.

It’s incredibly frustrating how long this has gone unfixed. As I understand it, it was broken well before they introduced Collections. Then Collections come out, one of which requires several rare drops from event chains they know break constantly. Kind of a troll move.

I don’t know if they’re hoping that if they go long enough without fixing it, maybe people will get desperate enough to buy gems to convert to gold to buy these things off the TP where they exist in the single digits, or what. But having collections with items that are and remain completely unobtainable is unacceptable.

At the time of writing this, there are more Bifrosts listed for sale on the TP than there are Sams.

What do you do every day?

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Curse the gods for not fixing Ogre Wars
Do Teq
Do dailies
Do an Arah path and kill Eye of Zhaitan(I actually sold a Zap from the Forge the other day and managed to BUY a freaking Pendant of Arah, but getting another one to sell would be nice as I still need Sam)
Port Jumping Puzzles
Lumberjack Orr

Enchanted Treasure Chest question

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Does anyone actually have this? I’m just a Sam away from it, if they’d ever FIX THE KITTENING OGRE WARS AND-..y’know what, not the point.

My question is this: is the chest like every other home instance node in the sense that if you bring a party member in with you, they can use it?

The Replica Annoy-o-Tron

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Just to note, the job-o-tron only comments on grawl impressions if the person wearing it is doing a lot of jumping.

Jumping =/= actively contributing to the fight. Job-o-tron tells people around you how poorly well you’re doing.

You don’t have to jump a lot, so much as just every time you jump there’s a chance for him to say it. There are also other parts of the game than fighting, such as JUMPING Puzzles and Vistas that require a lot of jumping to get to.

Hearing how grawl-like I am eight or nine times an hour…yeahhhh…no.

Halloween skins?

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The projection was that a lot of people only want these skins because they’re valuable, and that a good number of them would be sold, increasing the number of them on the market and bringing down the price.

Guess more people than estimated decided to keep and use theirs.

Getting Ancient Stone Summit Shoulder Spike

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Aaaaaaand now In Pursuit of Knowledge is broken until next patch, too. Again. JFC, Anet, WORK WITH ME HERE. I’m gonna go play my other crappy game for a while…

Getting Ancient Stone Summit Shoulder Spike

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I shall take your deafening silence as a resounding yes. I’ll just…pack up my tea party and go over here now. >_>

Getting Ancient Stone Summit Shoulder Spike

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I was going to try and camp out Timberline Falls today to log in right after the patch reset the map for a chance at getting my Ancient Stone Summit Shoulder Spike. Anet shot that plan to hell by patching earlier than I’m used to, evidently the stupid broken event chain already had time to complete once and will now never reset.

UNLESS…we get enough people to join on me in map 64.25.38.136:0 to fill the map and overflow it? Everyone bring some guildies, a friend, a bored stranger…fill that kitten ed map until people start hitting a new one, and then get them to taxi us over.

If it works, we might even be able to do it with Dredgehaunt for a shot at Commissar’s Manifesto. WADDYA SAY, GANG? CAN WE DO IT?!

Broken Event Chains

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Starting this thread to keep track of all broken event chains, please add any you know of that I’ve missed. Most of mine have to do with Treasure Hunter-related ones.

Timberline Falls – Protect krewe leader Dobbs as the krewe clears the excavation site
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Protect_krewe_leader_Dobbs_as_the_krewe_clears_the_excavation_site
Finishes once and then doesn’t reset. Wiki recommends logging in immediately after a patch to catch it on its first and only runthrough.

Straits of Devastation – Protect Scholar Breandan while he examines the seabed near Broken Spit
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Protect_Scholar_Breandan_while_he_examines_the_seabed_near_Broken_Spit
Bugged mid-event, Scholar Breandan is stuck in a wall underwater, doesn’t talk to you, move, and no enemies come in range to attack him to try and get him out of it.

Dredgehaunt Cliffs – In Pursuit of Knowledge
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/In_Pursuit_of_Knowledge
Meta event UI says “The dredge and the Priory are competing for the center camps.” even when there are no active events at Fridgardr Lodge or Firebase Molek, and the event to recapture Fridgardr Lodge never pops, blocking any further progress.

Fields of Ruin – Ogre Wars
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ogre_Wars
Just-…such a clusterkitten. When the list of bugs is longer than the list of events, you know you messed up.

Any chance fixes for these are being worked on? Sam and Commissar’s Manifesto can only be obtained through these, and if they’re always bugged they’re just gonna get more and more expensive as the existing supply dwindles. I’d like to at least have a SHOT at completing Treasure Hunter, Anet.

The Replica Annoy-o-Tron

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Your—grawl—impression—is—really—coming—along.

This. He says this WAY too often relative to his other lines. I’d be happy if the only change they made was to nerf the hell out of(or remove entirely…) this one freaking line.

Concordia achievements

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Looking for someone to do the Entanglement – Concordia achievements Dropping like Flies and On Swift Wings with. Possibly other stuff if you need it, I’m just finally starting to get caught up on living story achievements. Started at Gates of Maguuma and going forward from there.

Camera Controls

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Not really. There’s like 7 or so camera distances, one of them should fit your needs for any given situation.

Ghost Karka of the lava pit - intentional?

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If you have your WvW model limit set to lowest, it may be possible you saw the process used to place the husk while loading in. For instance I can hear the dozens of dead asuran bodies dying repeatedly in CoE on this setting when I swirl my camara.

Basically you are seeing the dead Karka Queen spawn, and then being posed in it’s death position.

But why is she made of fire? o_O

Ghost Karka of the lava pit - intentional?

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I noticed something odd in Southsun Cove tonight. While approaching the mouth of the cavern that is the lower level of the Karka Hive, I saw what APPEARED to be a Veteran Karka, made entirely of fire, standing upright in the lava pit. As I drew closer it sort of collapsed upon itself and vanished.

I tried to recreate the occurance and by running far enough away and coming back, I was able to. It took me two tries but I managed to get the enclosed screenshot, which is a little far away…but as I said, it vanishes when you get closer.

Has anyone else ever seen this before? I spend a pretty good deal of my time in Southsun and I certainly haven’t. I can’t help but notice that directly next to the lava pit is the petrified, permanent corpse of a vet/champ karka. One that perhaps fell into the lava and died shortly after crawling out…and with Halloween drawing near, the veil between the living and the dead is sufficiently thinned to make itself known to us? :P

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Female norn hairstyles - meh

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Too froofy. I can’t imagine any norn woman spending that much time on her hair to pull off that crap. Should’ve made Braham’s hairstyle unisex.

Question on Crab Toss's return

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Bump for interest and also Keg Brawl. Not that I know anyone who plays it, but as an intellectual curiosity if it’s getting an upgrade to go with all the new games.

Question on Crab Toss's return

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I loved Crab Toss and I’ve been whining about its removal since it poofed. So to hear it’s coming back, at least on a rotating basis, is very glad news indeed. One thing does have me scratching my chin, though.

I’m liking the coin bags you get from the Sanctum Sprint, and I noticed the descriptions for Southsun Survival and Aspect Arena mention “karma and coins”, so I’m wondering…is earning silver gonna be an across-the-board thing for minigames now, including Crab Toss?

Being able to play minigames for coin and items to sell is a refreshing change of pace from the ol’ CoF1-grind, and I don’t think the addition of coins would woefully unbalance Crab Toss. 12-ish silver, 5 karka shells and 2 greens/1 rare for the winner; 8-10 silver, 1 karka shell and a green for the runners-up…sound about right?

New Legendaries / Rework

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I saw all the great-looking new Cutthroat Politics stuff, came here to ask a question about Crab Toss’s glorious return and saw this thread. I-..I can’t even-..MY HEART.

New awesome-sounding minigames, getting Crab Toss back, a clear chance at a precursor AND more incentive to WvW? Anet, have you been reading my diary?

Instrument Users, post your music here!

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I can’t take credit for this, but I can share it. Mouhappai was kind enough to transcribe it for me. Lola’s Melody from Illusion of Gaia, starting in the High octave:

656-5653 1231(6)
656-5653 12-356

Flute Help

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Okay, I feel dumb. The same site I linked the first time around DOES, in fact, have the sheet music for the other song I’m looking for and I just couldn’t find it. x_x

http://www.hamienet.com/midi10191_Wind-Melody.html Anyone wanna take a crack at it?

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I’ve kept myself away from buying any of these instruments since the unbreakable bell was available.

I would just sit hours and hours playing Zelda songs.

Well YEAH, that’s kinda the point. xD

Flute Help

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Now if they’d make it so you can Esc out of a note to keep it from holding, it’ll be perfect. That, and learning the Wind Melody..which I can’t find the sheet music for.

I ermh, take you mean wind melody as the naruto theme song
http://josh.agarrado.net/music/anime/?startswith=N
dumdum, anime-sheetmusic!
And game-sheetmusic!
http://www.gamemusicthemes.com/sheetmusic.html

;)

Heh, no. I meant the Wind Melody also from Illusion of Gaia, the one you learn at Larai Cliffs. Thanks anyway though. :P

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Now if they’d make it so you can Esc out of a note to keep it from holding, it’ll be perfect. That, and learning the Wind Melody..which I can’t find the sheet music for.

Flute Help

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The flute in game is in E major, so this will sound a different pitch than the example you provided in the link, but try this and let me know if it’s okay for you.

Begin from the higher octave (underlined numbers are lower octave):
6 5 6 | 5 6 5 3 | 1 2 3 1 | 6
6 5 6 | 5 6 5 3 | 1 2 3 5 | 6

I put this together really fast so I hope there’s no mistakes.

Yeah, the pitch is different, but not much you or I can do about that unless they let you retune your instruments at some point down the road. The melody, however, is spot-on, perfect. Thank you so much.

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http://www.hamienet.com/midi10175_Flute-Song.html <- This tune is literally the entire reason I bought a Flute. Anyone else remember Illusion of Gaia? Awesome game.

I’m not a very musical person, I don’t play any instruments in real life(Guitar Hero don’t count), I can’t read sheet music…I was poking through a Reddit post with a bunch of songs arranged for the Choir Bell, Epona’s Song is about the only thing I managed to make sound right.

If someone could help me learn to play Lola’s Melody, though, I’d be eternally grateful. If that’s even possible with the 2-octave system. I understand the bell and the horn had 3?

If I can get this song, and maybe also the Wind Melody under my belt I’ll be content.

Content temporarily disabled?

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Was running around Southsun farming Reef Riders + Mosquitoes. Upon killing/looting one, along with my Potent Venom Sac I received a random redtext “That content has been temporarily disabled. Please try again later.” message. The hell?

I noticed another little patch this morning…did they finally get around to removing Supply Crates, or something? Because I’d still been getting them up until yesterday. I’m thinking maybe one tried to drop and that could be the cause for the message..?

Karma Vendor for T6 mats

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Anet doesn’t like people farming. They want people to just play “naturally” rather than grind for stuff…and yet, they make Legendaries and other rare Mystic Forge weapons that require 250-stacks of multiple items with drop rates that only drop from certain enemies, in certain areas, with drop rates varying from low to extremely low. Sound like a contradiction? That’s because it is.

They recently did a little something about this with the ectos to crystalline dust salvaging, and I applaud the effort. But you still need to farm the ever-lovin’ crap out of mats, or grindfarm gold to buy them on the TP. The solution?

A karma vendor that sells t6 mats. For, say, 2100 karma apiece, since Obsidian Shards are a comparable resource. They fall under the “x thing you need 250 of” category, but aren’t nearly as frustrating to accumulate. Karma accrues over time without grinding for it a lot easier than gold, from anywhere.

You can play in whatever zone(s) and do whatever events you find fun, do your Dailies and Monthlies while doing so, and end up with a buttload of karma in a reasonable time. This would allow people to play “casually” without it taking 168 years to accumulate mats. Any t6 mats you get as drops would feel like a nice little bonus, one less you had to buy…rather than a pittance, since there’s no reliable non-grindy way currently to amass them in large quantities.

Please make a REAL autoloot

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ElforTheLandStander.7052

Bots are gonna bot, nothing you can do about it but report them when you see them and get on with your life.

But don’t give the entire class safety scissors because one derptard cut his finger with real ones.

Please make a REAL autoloot

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ElforTheLandStander.7052

For the love of glob, do it.

Meaning, when enabled, you automatically loot any corpses/bags you pass over or come in range of. As opposed to the current system of “run around in the chaos of a large fight spamming F, only to get snagged by a corpse(usually a useless NPC) which you start reviving”. An aside, you REALLY need to be able to dodge out of reviving, but that’s another post waiting to happen.

This would be kind of handy for world events like Grenth, where claiming your loot helps cut down on culling, but is an absolute necessity in WvW where you often feel like you’re contributing solidly but not being rewarded for it. Because even if you stay alive for like 20 seconds in a big laggy zerg v. zerg and kill a bunch of stuff, you often can’t claim your loot.

You fight valiantly, but your comrades are ultimately driven off, taking with them any chance of getting a revive…and since there’s only one WP every 26 miles or so in WvW, the chances of you getting back to the spot you were alive before your loot bags despawn is slim to none. So you’re just laying these surrounded by 12 or so bags like “wtf”.

At least in world events, you can always count on a revive or there’s a WP within running distance for you to get your butt back there. So come on, Anet. Give us our hard-earned swag.

Silver Doubloons - is this for real?

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ElforTheLandStander.7052

It’s easy, make level 20 characters, park them at the JP chest in non-level zones like Lion’s Arch, or take your mains and open the level 20 JP zones for silver doubloons, they also can be crafted with gems which is probably profitable right now if silver doubloons are 94s.

Also no one cares, if your such a baby and going to quit the game cause your not getting your way, just quit now because not everything will be your way in this game so learn to deal with it and appreiacate what you earned. It’s certainly not my way for me… I get owned with all the “ticket skins, like fused, scelrite” because they are so extremely rare because the company is trying to milk profit from idiots who blow $200 trying to get a ticket vs. selling them fairly at a flat rate for a decent price so people like me can stock up their sPvP locker, but nope… im missing out on content because I REFUSE to spent 2000g or $500+ to get 20 tickets when they release their stupid RNG chest.

Threathening to quit over this won’t change anything, wish you would realise that because reading it gets really old. Unless 10,000 people came on here and complained all at once, not much will happen. Best of luck though.[/quote]

When you say level 20 areas, do you mean like 15-25 or 25-35?

Silver Doubloons - is this for real?

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ElforTheLandStander.7052

How about a way to upgrade Copper Doubloons?

This. This, so hard. Copper Doubloons are pretty much useless as-is, uncommon enough that they can’t be farmed easily without being so rare that they’re impossible(unlike silver, coughcough).

If you think 2 Copper Doubloons and 2 dust is getting off too easy, make it 4 each. Just give us SOME reliable way to get them, rather than having to choose between relying on the Forge RNG or the .00000000000000000000000000001% or so drop rate on them from those worthless bandit bags.

That’d put a kink in the motherless TP exploting gold flippers, I’d wager. Drop the price a little…

A stack of mats that are 1/4th of one Gift shouldn’t cost more than your freaking precursor.

5/31 DragonWagon/Magummybears/SBI

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ElforTheLandStander.7052

TC WvWer here. Allow me to just say…

DB, we miss you. Please come back soon. You were always honorable and worthy opponents, who did your fighting on the battlefield rather than in the jumping puzzles.

Stay classy, and I hope to cross blades with you again. In the meantime we’re stuck with Fort Dorkwood and SoS…>_>

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Crab Toss is so much fun

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Posted by: ElforTheLandStander.7052

ElforTheLandStander.7052

Dear Anet,

Please let Crab Toss be a thing forever and ever, and not troll everyone who’s spent time and effort honing their skills on it by having it poof after a few weeks.

Signed,
Everybody

Map Completion doesn't match up

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ElforTheLandStander.7052

On the character select screen, the map completion % displayed on the left under my name with the race + class/guild/map completion/map/server info is always 1% ahead of what I actually have in-game or when scrolling over the Map Completion medal.

Currently I’m at 80%/79%. Should I be worried? I really don’t wanna explore the entire world and find out I’m stuck at 99% and don’t get my Gifts of Exploration or something.

Beaded Weapons goofed up

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ElforTheLandStander.7052

I just crafted a few Beaded weapons, including a Lancea. When I previewed that one, it came up appearing as a Harpoon Shooter. Didn’t actually equip it to see if the weapon itself is goofed up when equipped because I wasn’t near water and I was selling it anyway, but yes…at the very least, the preview is screwed up.