Guild Wars 2

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

Is there anyway you can change these so that they are infusions rather then gems. I think people would get a lot more use of them if this was changed.

Better yet, a MF recipe to upgrade them to infusions… that way peeps have a choice.

~EW

Endless Soul.5178:

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Over these last few days my nickname for the LH has developed pretty organically.

It’s: “Holy-kitten, where’s a zerg to save me!?”

I say it every time I see ’em.

~EW

Mine’s “eeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeeeee!” as I run past trying to escape.

It wouldn’t surprise me if some people call it “wwwwwwwwwwwwwwww” just before they die.

I’m tempted to start calling the LH “kitten” for short.

~EW

There was a thread in the warrior sub-forums about it at some point in the recent past…

… iirc, the consensus was this phenomenon is where those seeking balance within the game can find it.

~EW

While it’s not outright said, we all know it goes to Zommoros. He’s known for taking stuff and not giving anything back. There’s no reason to think such behavior stops at the MF.

~EW

Over these last few days my nickname for the LH has developed pretty organically.

It’s: “Holy-kitten, where’s a zerg to save me!?”

I say it every time I see ’em.

~EW

edit: JaFW, the sensitivity training didn’t help at all. But, the punch and pie they served was good.

Coldtart.4785:

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Except with a dps offhand axe, you can choose a defense/utility mainhand like the mace.

options are options

~EW

That usually just means it’ll get paired with warhorn or shield to be a 100% defence/utility set and use your other weapon as dps.

Sure it’s an option, but I doubt it’ll ever be a worthy option.

I’m not so sure about that. For me I’d require slotting Dual Wielding. With that, though, the AA has a good power mod that also gives weakness, there’s a block on a quick cooldown, and a daze interrupt… I think it’d have merit. The daze means you can follow up with your burst (which stuns), followed by the whirling axe. Daze could also remove stability for the stun to land, and the stun keep ’em in place for the whirling axe to hit more and build adrenaline quickly.

Of course I recognize that’s all on paper. In-game such things are rarely so smooth…

~EW

I like it, JaFW!

~EW

DoctorDing.5890:

Am I the only person to think that the market is not broken?

You are not the only one, no worries.

4 years and we still have a functioning economy. That’s way better than most MMO’s I’ve played. I have been given no reasons to doubt that ANet knows what it’s doing.

~EW

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I’m experimenting with mine. As pure black as I can make it with Shadow abyss dye and a Poly Luminescent Black refractor. Then I added a Ghostly infusion for blue flames and the black smoky effect on the body. I think it looks pretty good. When I get tired of that I’ll try other color schemes. ^^

Do you have a screenshot? That sounds cool.

~EW

I am thoroughly happy with the outfit! And, royal ascalonian weapons look great with it.

~EW

Just a flesh wound.3589:

??? What new skills and new weapons are linked to new raids?

I think they meant ‘traits.’

~EW

Kal Spiro.9745:

But the tattered wings are dropping this year? I know haven’t been doing an excessive amount of Ascent, but I have been trying to do a few runs a day and I hadn’t seen any evidence of them.

Yes the tattered bat wings are dropping. So far I’ve looted 4.

~EW

spawnofdivinedestruction.6230:

Neurion.4086:

BlaqueFyre.5678:

and the D/P won’t give permastealth especially if what he says is true how he spams Vault since he will have no Initiative.

I don’t think he plays a Thief, not as his main for certain.

By the way, OP, you should have posted on the Thief forum, not here.

There is a thief forum…?

It’s stealthed between the Revenant and Warrior sub-forums on the main page: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum

Though, I don’t recommend a person ever ask if a profession should get a nerf on that profession’s subform…

~EW

(edit: a more tactful approach would be to post in that subfoum something like, “I’m finding [X] difficult to deal with, can anyone give me some suggestions on how to counter? I play [Y].” )

Kalendraf.9521:

Coldtart.4785:

I don’t see how a pure dps offhand will ever be useful for warrior when it can already get a pure dps mainhand axe and then get defence and utility on their offhand.

This is exactly why I think OH Axe needs to go back to the drawing board and come up with a new set of skills that can serve a need for the class.

Except with a dps offhand axe, you can choose a defense/utility mainhand like the mace.

options are options

~EW

Shiveria.6742:

so i made a new gw2 account as i lost my old one a friend of mine bought me the expansion and ive been trying out the 80 boost. Frustrated i tried quite a few classes and couldnt find one i like. that was until i tried rev. It was sooo much fun but my friend informed me that they were nerfed lately so that means from what she todl me no one takes revs on raids. This makes the decision hard on me as i love rev and want to do the expac with it. but i also want to raid. could use some advice as i dont know what to do. guardian looks interesting as well but i am loving rev.

If you love the Rev, then play the Rev… because that’s what’s going to keep you logging in and playing.

Join or create a raiding guild, and become friends with those people…. friends won’t begrudge you playing the profession you wish (though they may reqeust/expect a specific build for that profession). Even if Rev is currently not the top in-demand profession, that doesn’t mean there’s no place for it.

~EW

Mea.5491:

I’ve always been your secret admirer because of that! :P

*blushes

Mea.5491:

I feel sorry for people who blindly follow meta builds and they miss out on all the fun! Those are the people who get bored and quit after a few months.

Very true. Had I been following meta, I woulda never tried a rifle/bow warrior, or a passive-regen warrior, or sw/sw celestial warrior, or a scepter/torch guard (2 years ago), or my settler’s no-minion necro, and on, and on… they’ve all been so much fun!

(edit: lately I’ve been toying with the idea for a staff-only, no minion, necro… I think it could be fun too. )

~EW

Mea.5491:

FlOwMaKeRs.8623:

In this game you’re forced to use 1 meta build in different modes, YOU don’t have the freedom to create your own BUILD

Lies. I’ve been a Knight Necro since forever and Knight stats (maxed Toughness) are far from the meta… But I can still do every content with my guildies. You only have to be meta if you play with elitists. Join a friendly guild and/or start your own groups.

+1

Build experimentation is my endgame, and I thrive on figuring out how something unpopular is actually awesome.

~EW

Zoid.2568:

We need a spinning monkey tail glider. A monkey sitting on your back with its tail spinning very fast that it makes you fly.

If it were done before Halloween, we could then use a total makeover kit to give a Charr blue fur and the super-sayan hair style in order to be dressed as Sonic the Hedgehog for the holiday!

(what has been imagined cannot be un-imagined)

~EW

It’s not a system problem, it’s a you problem. Take control of your impulses, and take responsibility for your choices.

Also, stop fearing the future. Play in the now. The future will sort itself out, and accept there will come a time when you stop playing for whatever reason… no point in spoiling your now with fears of what might be.

~EW

Vukorep.3081:

A lot of stuff can be converted into gold (not talking abou karma, dungeon tokens ect)

you need leather? Sell every other material you dont need for gold and use it to buy leather.

dont hoard every piece of material you stumble apon..

Agreed. Once Halloween is over, go farm things that drop gear/loot bags…. SW is great for this, as are many of the HoT maps. Open up all the bags on a lvl 80, salvage everything (use mystic kits on leather armor, use basic kits on everything else), keep the leather, and sell the other mats on the TP to buy more leather.

~EW

Tbh, much of the information you’re seeking can be found in emkelly’s Warrior 101 thread stickied above. The warrior is a solid choice in all the modes.

As far as raiding is concerned, I believe the PS build is still the preferred warrior meta people want/expect.

~EW

juno.1840:

DoctorDing.5890:

I’m somewhat amused that the majority of the lab farming squads I’ve joined in the last couple of days now just skip the Viscount boss. Since the buff they consider him a bad use of time. Perhaps his rewards needs buffing too….

He’s still not hard and what players fail to realize is champ bags give at least 5 HoT bags.

If the door spawn timing was such that there’s always a door available then I can see skipping less efficient doors (like the two three doors that spawn a single vet — very little reward there). Given that there is “down time” where general mob farming is pursued, skipping Viscount doesn’t seem that efficient.

I’d rather play to enjoy the challenge of the content than farm an area as efficiently as possible. To me, the former is enjoying the game, while the latter is working from home.

~EW

jheryn.8390:

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Gaile Gray.6029:

I played my little heart out this weekend, even took a day of PTO to get in more Labyrinth time. And given the confusion with the undersea creature, I’m hoping we can all agree to call the Labyrinthine Horror by the name of… ~drum roll~ … Cecil. It… just seems fitting, and players seemed to agree.

I dunno. I’d vote for… Colin. Here’s why:

• People want to blame him for ruining their loot run and dying too often.
• Other people love breaking his defiance and forcing him to stand still for 2 seconds.
• He swings a sword; he swings it again.
• Big grin.

Colin, the Labyrinthine Horror

ANet, between this post and the pancakes suggestion in the other thread, I implore you to hire this man and pay him whatever he asks.

~EW

I agree with you EW except she may take exception to being called a man. Just sayin’…

Good catch. Post is now fixed to be more internet gender-neutral friendly.

~EW

NecroMongress.8691:

Thank you for the reply. Since there is a cap on luck and luck is account bound, what would be the point in storing it? Is there another use for it?

Not yet. People hope that either the cap will be raised, or eventually some new recipes will use it.

~EW

My Warrior is still climbing the mountain. Booyah!

~EW

Just a flesh wound.3589:

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Gaile Gray.6029:

The fact of the matter is, if I see someone 2 feet taller than me approaching with a roaring chainsaw, I’m likely to call him “Sir.” Or her “Ma’am.”

If I see someone 2 feet taller than me approaching with a roaring chainsaw, then I’m facing the wrong direction.

~EW

Shocking. Simply shocking pre-judging. Just because an 8 foot Skeleton is running towards you with a roaring chainsaw is no reason for you to make negative snap judgements about him and run away! You need to take the time to talk to him. Try to see things from his point of view. Empathize. Maybe he’s having a bad day and only needs a sympathetic listener. If he chainsaws you in half its a sign you didn’t try hard enough. You didn’t reach out to him and discuss his needs, his dreams and problems.

Can’t we all just get along? :/

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. There’s a reason I no longer use OKCupid: codependent 8ft tall chainsaw wielding skeletons are all the same right down to the bone.

~EW

Razor.9872:

SarahWitter.2317:

Felahr.9830:

SarahWitter.2317:

Felahr.9830:

SarahWitter.2317:

Felahr.9830:

I never had any crashing issues, BUT my outfit is still visible. if it was supposed to be disabled its not working. i hope im not causing crashes for other people :/

What player race are you?

Charr

Thank you. Are you showing your helm or having it hidden?

Showing, of course! Its the best part of the entire outfit

Unfortunately, our internal tests are showing that it is most likely tied to the helm. So it is possible that you may be crashing other people’s clients that see you while they have low animation settings.

You have to admit, this is pretty funny.

Lowly peasants are not allowed to gaze upon my glorious self! Die from my glory!

lol

If they ever make a second set of legendary armors, they could use this as the effect, and use your line as the error message on crash.

~EW

DeanBB.4268:

Yes, I believe it is a necklace. Again, saw it pop from the ToT bag, saw it was account bound, so moved it to a safe bag to decide upon later. So that is a “poly-whatever” which is different than what the OP is hoping for, I take it?

Yes, the infusion is a straight drop from the ToT bag. The poly-luminescent undulating refractor is a jewel salvaged out of a necklace that is dropped out of the ToT bag.

It is the infusion that the OP wants.

~EW

Mamma il Dio.2074:

Hello, I just spent litterlly 10 hours nostop opening an insane amount of ToT bags, about 60k bags or more considering the others opened in the previous days and of course I didn’t see the Phospholuminescent Infusion, did you lower the drop rate or what? It’s not fun at all, as the first day after 2 hours there were already 3 Infusions at TP. For me this is totally insane, i was really hoping to get it if i opened so many bags but nothing…I’m very disappointed

So, if I understand you right you opened 60k bags, which currently go for over 5s ea on the TP… round down to 5s, that means those bags could sell for somewhere around 3k gold…. to buy the infusion on the TP, it’s just north of 2.1k gold. So you could have gotten the infusion, liquid gold just under 1k, and avoided future carpel tunnel surgery if you had just sold the bags instead.

~EW

According to my research, there’s a fish somewhere causing the problem. This is what I found:

But our fish said, ‘no! no!
make that cat go away!
tell that cat in the hat
you do NOT want to play.
he should not be here.
he should not be about.
he should not be here
when your mother is out!’

~EW

Knighthonor.4061:

But whats some ways you would go about designing a MMO GW2 game for consoles?

Gaile Gray.6029:

The fact of the matter is, if I see someone 2 feet taller than me approaching with a roaring chainsaw, I’m likely to call him “Sir.” Or her “Ma’am.”

If I see someone 2 feet taller than me approaching with a roaring chainsaw, then I’m facing the wrong direction.

~EW

You spin so fast you suck in your enemies… give axe 5 a pull.

(actually I’m fine with axe 5 as-is, I just like the above idea from a visual standpoint)

~EW

Nikal.4921:

I like this outfit, at least what I see pictured on Dulfy. Don’t care about the helm or effects. I could do without the effects. Is there a way to turn them off?

From all the pics I’ve seen, you can turn off the helm… but you can’t turn off the grasping hands.

~EW

AreeSoothsayer.1068:

They were a previous halloween item that I wasn’t around for. When I saw them in the bank I knew I must have them. Waited for October, earned gold to get enough diamonds I would be sure to get them,

WHERE ARE THEY?!!

They were stolen by the missing cat-in-the-hat mini.

~EW

The grasping hands pulled the outfit back into the mists! Repent, ye trick-or-treaters!

O.O

~EW

supa suop.8026:

Give me the head, and maybe the grasping hand aura. They can keep the rest.

A visual representation by Dulfy

I want it all. I haven’t wanted an outfit this badly since the pirate captain’s outfit. Ch-Yarr!

(it will go well with the royal ascalonian weapons)

~EW

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Gaile Gray.6029:

I played my little heart out this weekend, even took a day of PTO to get in more Labyrinth time. And given the confusion with the undersea creature, I’m hoping we can all agree to call the Labyrinthine Horror by the name of… ~drum roll~ … Cecil. It… just seems fitting, and players seemed to agree.

I dunno. I’d vote for… Colin. Here’s why:

• People want to blame him for ruining their loot run and dying too often.
• Other people love breaking his defiance and forcing him to stand still for 2 seconds.
• He swings a sword; he swings it again.
• Big grin.

Colin, the Labyrinthine Horror

ANet, between this post and the pancakes suggestion in the other thread, I implore you to hire this person and pay ’em whatever they ask.

~EW

Obtena.7952:

OK, but that doesn’t really mean that there is a problem with sword as it’s realized for warriors. It’s clear to me that most of the people QQing about sword haven’t attempted to play a condition zerker with it … and they are missing out. So their underlying experience to claim it’s deficient is lacking.

Agreed. One can’t take whatever build they run with, slot a new weapon, and expect it to work well. When one’s build is tailored to the weapon, that’s when you really see what the weapon can do.

~EW

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It still hasn’t appeared in the API, so no one’s obtained it in game either. Here are some possibilities:

• There will be more stuff in the gem shop Friday (weekend prior to RL Halloween)
• It’s a mystic forge recipe that no one has discovered.
• There’s an in-game “quest” that no one has discovered.
• It appears as an item because an NPC uses it as a ‘mini’ (and none of us have noticed).
• ANet had completed enough work on it to include it in the test patch…and it got approved for release, but pulled at the last minute for [reasons], thus it would appear in the .DAT file, but not in game.
• ANet is trolling us, to see what weird things we do when we see something we like in the .DAT file.

A dragon ate it.

~EW

Do exploration of the starter cities (DR, Holebrak, Rata Sum, etc). They reward transmutation charges when you complete their exploration. Make an alt just to do that, if you need to.

~EW

Behellagh.1468:

How do you break people from hording? That’s the issue. The relatively sudden rise in price encourages hording more than the attractiveness of selling.

You change many of the recipes that require mystic coins to require something else… or make them use less mystic coins. The less in-demand they are, the more will be flogged on the TP.

I suppose I could be considered one of those who hoard mystic coins. But, I don’t do so out of any nefarious scheme to sell them for profit. I hold on to them because at some point I’m going to want to make a weapon skin for a particular look I’ll be going for at that time. I keep the coins I get, and I use them sparingly because I know how easily I could burn through them. They are just too useful to part with.

~EW

Now I want hotcakes.

~EW

MarkoNS.3261:

LinseyMurdock.4165:

Eirian Direstorm.9748:

I agree about blade shards, chak eggs, mysitic forge stones, etc. I also suggest resonating slivers.

I undertsand why you don’t want to put crafted things in. Would it be hard to at least make more things stackable in the bank, like the various salvage kits, harvesting tools, etc.?

Every month I end up getting quite a few BL salvage kits. It’s great to get them for free, but it would be even better if they stacked.

It would be extremely hard, if not impossible to make those things stack.

why would it be hard to make black lion salvage stack ?

I think it’s because they’re not programmed as a stack of 25 items, but instead 1 item with 25 charges/uses.

~EW

Seera.5916:

But gemstones are used directly in crafting. They are used to make the various earrings and rings.

Sigils and Runes are not. That’s why they should not be added to material storage.

Only the following items should be in Mat storage:

1. Items used in crafting or MF recipes unless they are unbound and only used in a handful or recipes (ie: you can easily buy one off of the TP or be too hard to store one in your characters’ bags or bank spots).
2. Items that can’t be crafted UNLESS the crafted version is required in LARGE quantities for recipes (ie: ingots, planks, sections, etc)

Sigils and runes do not fall under those categories. And only a handful of them are even used in crafting and MF recipes and I would only support those sigils and runes being added.

A much better suggestion would be to have a Sigil and Rune library where you can deposit sigils and runes to and be able to access it from the Hero Panel. That way you can just swap sigils and runes. Useful if you’re doing dungeons and just need to swap out from one set to another due to dungeon type.

Yes, I’m aware of all that. But, to me they’re still not much different than gemstones, ore, etc… crafting has nothing to do with how I view them. I’d feel the same if all gemstones had to be stored in my bank tabs. They are an item type that there are tons of variety of, and they sit around for days, weeks, months, and even years without being touched… just like gemstones, ore, etc.

If the devs want to stick to crafting/MF mats for this project, that’s fine… that was clarified after I made my runes/sigils suggestion.

~EW

Eragon.8537:

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Would Superior Sigils and Runes be too many things? If not, that’d be a nice addition.

~EW

A much better implementation, and a much-needed one, in my opinion, would be to have a “sell all sigils” option with vendors. I am supposing that you would like this option to allow for an easier job of mass salvaging (now with salvage all option) green items and immediately depositing all mats to clear inventory. I would like to see that instead of a material tab (since it’s not really a material), there’s an option to sell all to vendors, similar to “sell junk.” Maybe this could work for rare and masterwork sigils, but not exotics?

Actually, no… I have 2 1/2 bank tabs devoted to Superior Runes and Sigils (because I change up my builds so often, I like to keep as much around as possible). My thought is these are two types of items that take up a large swath of space… I don’t view them much differently than I view gemstones, ore, etc. The minor and major I don’t care much about… I can vendor/MF them quickly enough that they’re not a problem for my inventory.

~EW

If all I achieved in this life was to successfully punch a dragon to death, then I’d die a happy Charr.

~EW

You’re definitely not the only one who wants to change their display name. Welcome to the club, my friend.

~EW

+1 to the suggestions for vision crystals, boosters, amalgamated gemstones, mystic stones, doubloons, and reclaimed plates!

~EW

Would Superior Sigils and Runes be too many things? If not, that’d be a nice addition.

~EW