Guild Wars 2

archmagus.7249:

Chris Cleary.8017:

Oslaf Beinir.5842:

Please provide more details. A list would be fantastic <3

MTX Combat Boosters – Speed, Might, Regen, Swim Speed (ect)
Food/Utility with +%Damage vs Monster Type – These will not have any benefit
Pet Consumables – Ogre Pet Whistle, Fire Elemental Powder (ect) will be disabled
Sigils of +%Damage vs Monster Type- These will not have any benefit
Sigils of Night – This will not have any benefit
Costume Brawl – Costume Brawl Pet summons will be disabled

I might have missed some things here, but you get the picture. Feel free to ask about specific items, however if they are likely to add a edge to combat, they are likely disabled.

If we have a food/utility which still has some time left on it (the duration was boosted by a primer, and we still got a few hours on it) will the timer on the buff keep counting down, or would the timer be suspended until we leave the raid?

He just said that they wouldn’t have any effect. They probably accomplished this by making it day time during raids so Night sigils didn’t work and not giving any of the enemies the same type as any of the potions. So just like how an undead potion won’t work on a tree, none of the potions would work on the mobs in here.

Also as far as still having the buff up, none of the slaying potions are that expensive. Are you really that worried about a couple of silver?

khani.4786:

So can we get an actual list of items disabled? Or do we just go into the raid and if our gear quits working then find out then….

My guess on disabled items besides the slaying potions/sigils will be:
Day/Night Sigils
Ghost Pepper Poppers
Ogre Runes/ That Flesh Reaver stacking sigil (any others that summon other AI minions)

what else?

All the raids seem to be day time so Night sigils already won’t work.

Now the question is, will force sigils still work?

slamfunction.7462:

Balance? Who needs it? Just ban the things you couldn’t test! BRILLIANT! sigh…

How are they just banning it? They said way before HoT launched that they didn’t want slaying sigils/potions for HoT.

Eight Samurai.6840:

Yes, pretty much what I feel about your last statement is why I’m 50/50. In order to optomize I would have to redo my expensive sigils and runes just to get a tiny bonus. Theoretically, I could do it, but do I really want to, the answer is not at all.

I optimize my gear but only replace slaying sigils. This means on my Ele, for example, I’m running a Force+Night Staff, Force+Air, Night+Slaying, and Force+Slaying Staff.

Only needed a night time and day time staff and not the extra slaying stuff frees up some inventory space though I’ll hold on to them for fractals for now unless they go that route in fractals too.

Eight Samurai.6840:

No, what I was implying is that their are items in game such as rocks you can buy with karma that you can toss at enemies to knock them down, or potions that transform you to give you different skill bars. That’s the part I’m for removing… the tonics about specific mob slaying, i’m 50/50 with.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Yeah consumables of various natures are kind of weird. They disabled Spiky Fruit in dungeons and fractals but not the Rocks you buy from Brisban Wildlands for instance. Plenty of other consumables still available for use in instances though I doubt many are even bothering to use them anymore since dungeons aren’t really done anymore and fractals don’t need them now.

As far as the slaying sigils/potions, Anet had said previously that they didn’t like them because they became seen as required gear for X content.

56, 67, 77 (Swamp, Swamp, and more Swamp) would be faster than the Jade Maws (unless your team has terrible DPS).

I agree with your idea for 3 fractals like an addition of a Grandmaster daily tier. 3 random fractals from 51-100 or 76-100.

Also think the lower tiers should have 3 random fractals picked out each day instead of 1 recommended and then two others since people are always going to just do the recommended then two swamps or something.

As it is now, people do 7 Swamps plus the two recommended ones if they’re doing all their fractal dailies.

Eight Samurai.6840:

Hey Gaile, nice to hear that you guys are actively making sure people aren’t exploiting raids to get easy wins. I just wanted to ask one thing however.

Are you implying with that statement that people who used optimized gear for whatever content they were doing were exploiting?

Buffs prioritizes your party/sub group first. After that, the overflow then goes to the closest non party/sub group player. It’s based on proximity to the source.

If you have a party group of 3 and you put a banner down, the 3 party members will get the buff, then the banner will apply the last 2 remaining to whomever is closest to the banner. Same works with boons. Whoever outside the party is closest to the source of them will get them.

Have not tested things like wells on how those get applied. Is it by proximity to the player casting the well or by the center of the well?

You use the extractor for the +5s and pay an additional 75 relics for the +7.

The +7 costs a +5 (the one you just extracted )and 75 relics.

It does seem a little low especially with their previous statement the liquid rewards from dungeons were being shifted to fractals and raids.

ATM, the only gold to be really made is through exchange of gold between players. Doesn’t seem to be much actual gold production going on which is probably what they want. Not sure what the plan is for later on when the gold supply has gone down enough.

Qugi.2653:

Not sure what you look at but no way leather to 0-400 is 8G buy all mats for example. Not close no way even with buff. If you can leather to 0-400 for 8G share how. Show step and what need to do. You will be popular if can.

I already said how. Calculate what you need to buy based on custom offer prices. The items you come up with are quite different than what gw2crafts.com says.

If you want to make a spreadsheet to do it, it took me about 4 or 5 hours to make the first one and another 30-45 minutes for each profession after that. Not really worth the time unless you’re leveling up multiple characters. For myself, I got all 45 of my characters to 425 for Armorsmithing, Leatherworking, Tailoring, and Jewelry.

I’ll probably make the spreadsheet available once I get everything I need for Weaponsmith, Huntsman, and Artificer.

Cooking, I’ll leave to gw2crafts. Too many recipes to bother tracking.

Qugi.2653:

Enko.6123:

Qugi.2653:

Best site to know about craft and cost. Cook jewel and artifice lowest cost.

http://gw2crafts.net/

Have not use craft to level in long time but I think it is only 7 level craft to 400 now. You over level 50 so can craft rest way to 80 but will cost much more than use to.

gw2crafts.net is not the cheapest; its the fastest.

gw2crafts.net uses available prices and calculates what to buy off of that.

If you calculate using custom offers, you can save 40-60% more off of what gw2crafts says.

Also, use a crafting booster and an item booster. Cuts down on what you need to make by 50%.

Why I said use buy offer if can when I said this.

Qugi.2653:

For some thing can save some coin by put in buy order for some more common material if you do not mind wait small amount.

Most every person I see for year use that guide as start place to craft level. Many that know can save some 2-3 gold here by using buy order or boost. But that guide is where most start. That was what OP ask about and got answer with. If you have better craft level guide send OP PM. That person will like it better.

Current costs (at time of this post) to get to 400 :
Armormsith: 6g 58s 36c
Leatherworker: 8g 34s 5c
Tailor: 7g 83s 5c
Weaponsmith: 11g 66s 60c
Huntsman: 11g 53s 78c
Artificer: 2g 72s 22c
Jeweler: 5g 79s 65c

If you run an item booster and crafting booster, it gives you 100% crit.
If you run the new xp booster, fireworks, and any guild xp buff you have, you’ll gain more character xp per crafting level.

Qugi.2653:

Best site to know about craft and cost. Cook jewel and artifice lowest cost.

http://gw2crafts.net/

Have not use craft to level in long time but I think it is only 7 level craft to 400 now. You over level 50 so can craft rest way to 80 but will cost much more than use to.

gw2crafts.net is not the cheapest; its the fastest.

gw2crafts.net uses available prices and calculates what to buy off of that.

If you calculate using custom offers, you can save 40-60% more off of what gw2crafts says.

Also, use a crafting booster and an item booster. Cuts down on what you need to make by 50%.

Having the ability to change the fractal level from within the Observatory would get rid of one of the annoying things with fractals atm. Would be nice if they added this. Heck just have us pick the level from inside the observatory instead of from the LA portal.

That grace period to rejoin that map should include holding your spot for 1 or 2 minutes. If they did that, it would get rid of most of the gripes about the high number of crashes going on in maps like Dragon’s Stand.

Guild Hall instance is crashing when people are trying to enter.

So to confirm, crafting does not give XP to mastery tracks (at least not to Fractal track).

Fractal Weapon Collection is not correctly unlocking. All skins are unlocked in the wardrobe. Showing 12/19.

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Christos de Soufre.3802:

How defined are your raid plans at this point?

We have a raid comp set up and we’ll be starting them up as soon as they’re launched.

Linken.6345:

Enko.6123:

You need to remember how gw2crafts.net calculates its numbers. It uses available prices from the TP. There’s cheaper ways to get the same items from the TP and then you can recalculate what you should buy based off those cheaper prices. If you’re only leveling it up once, its probably not really worth it. I’m working on getting max on every crafting profession on all 45 characters so it was worth it to me to set up a spreadsheet to save as much gold as possible.

Also, instead of making stuff for the first 25 of every level, you can just refine materials for that tier as you pretty much get your money back.

Why would you need all crafting professions 8×45, aint 8 one of each craft maxed enough?

Because I want to?

You need to remember how gw2crafts.net calculates its numbers. It uses available prices from the TP. There’s cheaper ways to get the same items from the TP and then you can recalculate what you should buy based off those cheaper prices. If you’re only leveling it up once, its probably not really worth it. I’m working on getting max on every crafting profession on all 45 characters so it was worth it to me to set up a spreadsheet to save as much gold as possible.

Also, instead of making stuff for the first 25 of every level, you can just refine materials for that tier as you pretty much get your money back.

gw2crafts.net is not the cheapest way to do it; it’s the quickest way.

At ct current prices, it costs 50g to get ALL crafts to 400 and about another 150g to get the three armor professions and the three weapon professions to 500.

Just need to know how to do it and also be patient.

As in most markets, you can get fast, cheap, or good quality. Pick 2.

Narrrz.7532:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Be aware, you could only hold up to 4 or so of those chests before they will automatically open when changing maps/logging out. So, it’s not like you could do much World Map Completion on a new/low-level character and save them to open in the Heart of Maguuma.

Good luck.

I’m not sure hey even open automatically. i think they’re just lost.
That’s how the silverwastes chests work anyway.

Once you go over 4 and change maps, they aren’t lost. The extras over 4 are just auto opened.

While I think they need to keep the timer in place (heck actually shorten it), instead of the boss getting a straight up damage buff when it expires, instead something similar to this idea where it ramps up. So the 8 minute timer runs out, every X seconds, boss gets +x% damage. So the longer it takes you after the enrage timer, then the harder and harder he starts hitting.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av4NvDVKEaOzdHJPaTlsRU5LeEJWN3hodklXWGFCU1E&usp=drive_web#gid=0

Here’s the recorded drops rates that LOD has had.

We’ll be resetting the spreadsheet again come HoT launch.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Isn’t crafting XP different from regular XP? I mean, using a Crafting Booster only boosts crafting XP, but does nothing for XP toward leveling.

Crafting XP contributes to your crafting level. Whenever you finish a crafting level, you get character XP.

The Crafting Booster and one of the bonuses on the Item Booster grants you additional chances to critical when you craft an item getting bonus crafting XP.

The new XP booster grants you +50% XP from all sources. This will apply to the character XP when you finish a crafting lvl.

Well up to lvl 80, I don’t expect it to. I would expect if my character is level 80 that any future XP gain contributes to Mastery tracks regardless of the source.

I’d just like to find out where people are getting their so called information from because I remember during the livestream when they were talking about masteries about everything contributing to it. They were talking how you might go gather random nodes because, hey, it gives you XP for masteries. Don’t see why they would change it for XP gained from crafting especially since it used to give you Character XP and would result in skill points before.

So there’s been some rumors going around that XP gained from crafting will not contribute to Mastery tracks. Only “confirmation” that someone has said was that they thought they heard it on a livestream. Anyone have a link to where Anet said anything about this if it exists?

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

How do you know 1 mechanic of the Vale Guardian is missing?

Don’t think anyone was able to use the Speed Mushrooms that were in there since that mastery line wasn’t available yet.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

I’m pretty sure it was mentioned during a livestream.

Got a link?

Sidenti.6035:

Forget that. How do you live with only 80 inventory slots?!

If that was from Beta Weekend 2 that’s all we got on beta characters.

That’s kind of odd with the weapon strength and extra stats on the torch. Was it like that during BW3?

It’s not the HP level that Jade Maw bugs with; It’s killing Jade Maw before you finish Phase 2 (Kill all Colossi). Finish off all the Colossi or at least wait for them to all spawn before you leech all of Jade Maw’s HP. If you let them all spawn but don’t kill them, you’ll still need to kill the Colossi before the end chest will spawn.

You can tell how many are left by the number of crystals floating around Jade Maw.

AC Story:
Do you have a POV for whoever went to Nente and hopefully with a build number or a date?

SE P2:
Do you have the Mes POV and hopefully with a build number or a date?

Approved and added to site.

Final time: 9 min 28.83s rounds up to 9 min 29s

I’d like to see him become a Mordrem and then we have to put him on the altar in Arah to redeem him or something. Would actually like to see a Sylvari personal story where you are corrupted and become a Mordrem and Destiny’s Edge (1.0 or 2.0) captures you to save you by using the same ritual we used to restore the undead chicken.

Think of it this way, you don’t report him, he will definitely not be banned. Report him and at least there’s a chance that he will.

Don’t forget about Delicious Rice Balls for 10% increased healing.

FotM 40 needs 55 AR to basically ignore the instability.
FotM 50 needs 70 AR to basically ignore the instability.

Can you survive with 50 and 65 AR respectively? Sure but you’ll need to heal a lot more often.

I would have preferred it as a blog post with a video so the recipes and directions could have been listed instead of on a livestream.

Approved and added to site.

Final time: 6m 53.5s rounds up to 6m 54s.

Approved and added to site.

Final time: 17m 49.43s rounds down to 17m 49s.

ironfrodo.7625:

Roul.3205:

well still dunno if its a record xD

and im sry for you, but dont worry, you still have ac p6, and you can leech it for ever and ever and ever..

Goku and Abe had an 14:58min run. Dunno if there is another faster one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwL5S0HTJro

Was there a forum post for this? If there was, I’m going to go back and approve that one instead.

Roul, if I find the post for the other one, then that would be the record.

Edit: Well I can’t find a post if one was ever made.

It’s being held up because I have a full time job and I haven’t had a chance to go through them yet and the beta was this weekend. If you feel that it’s taking too long for records to get approved, you’re welcome to sign up as one as well. Just contact Wethospu and ask.

The other approvers aren’t active atm.

Approved and added to site.

Final time: 13m 18.4s rounded down to 13m 18s.

Here’s a simple solution. Kill the boss before the enraged timer expires and get a reward. If it goes down to 0 then either don’t get a reward or get a reduced reward. Still lets you continue on to go to the next boss/wing but encourages people to improve without stopping progress.

TheSouL.1098:

Make no sence to reset the side. Alltime record is Alltime record, even if there is a new Patch. Thats the thing with Alltime, there can be just one. Besides i think its unfair for the Player who did better Alltime record then the current meta alltime record

This isn’t just a patch. This is an expansion which is why I would like that. It’s not up to me though so we’ll see how the other voters go if and once its proposed.

Don’t know. I would personally like the all time records to be recorded somewhere for pre HoT stuff and those listed are just immortalized.
Then we start with a clean slate with HoT.

The Lightning AoE always spawns in the same section that the Vale Guardian is in. If you keep it in the middle, he’s probably crossing the line when it spawns and its spawning farther away.

Malthurius.6870:

Also, this thread here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/LOD-Vale-Guardian-Down/first#post5573311 claims to have cleared the boss with 9 zerkers and a celestial guardian, and the only reason the guardian was in celestial was to manipulate aggro AI; even saying that the guardian going in clerics was too much.

My entire point being that offensive stats are too good and defensive stats are worth barely anything in this content thus far.

Are you confusing “Zerker gear” with “DPS gear”? The Engineers were in Sinister which is still a DPS build (and higher DPS than Berserker).

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Nice kill.

Lold here:

https://youtu.be/-poOgTxwxfY?t=7m28s

When over half your party went down at the end. I thought it would be a downed state kill but most of you got up

Glad to see zerker still meta. Did you really need cele guard?

Just needed something with a bit of toughness to hold agro. Tried Cleric’s originally but it was overkill (overheal?).