Guild Wars 2

Calae.1738:

Errant Venture.9371:

Calae.1738:

Errant Venture.9371:

Death blossom giving dodge + stealth + immobilize AND positioning you BEHIND your target? Girl you cray, that would be the most hella OP skill in game. And this is coming from a skirmisher sin with 7k+ WvW kills O.o

The reason thieves are overpowered is because of the initiative system. Put a cooldown on every single one of thier skills, reduce thier burst to reasonable levels and the overpowered Thief disapears. The developers will be spinning in circles forever trying to balance the Thief until the initiative system is scrapped.

Right, because simplifying the game makes it better. The initiative system mirrors the energy system from GW1 and actually makes the game COMPLEX and raises the SKILL CAP on thieves. The lack of a broad energy mechanic makes the game too simple. Don’t complain when you spec full glass and a skirmisher class drops you. That’s their JOB.

According to your logic, we should make every profession in the game have an energy system and remove all cooldowns.

Cooldowns are fine as a complementary system, but yes, every profession should have an energy mechanic.

Calae.1738:

Errant Venture.9371:

Death blossom giving dodge + stealth + immobilize AND positioning you BEHIND your target? Girl you cray, that would be the most hella OP skill in game. And this is coming from a skirmisher sin with 7k+ WvW kills O.o

The reason thieves are overpowered is because of the initiative system. Put a cooldown on every single one of thier skills, reduce thier burst to reasonable levels and the overpowered Thief disapears. The developers will be spinning in circles forever trying to balance the Thief until the initiative system is scrapped.

Right, because simplifying the game makes it better. The initiative system mirrors the energy system from GW1 and actually makes the game COMPLEX and raises the SKILL CAP on thieves. The lack of a broad energy mechanic makes the game too simple. Don’t complain when you spec full glass and a skirmisher class drops you. That’s their JOB.

We’ve been speculating on this for months over in the Lore forums, but there really isn’t any hard evidence in game and we haven’t gotten any interaction with the story team since beta =( We’ve asked a few times to do a Lore AMA but there’s been no response

Death blossom giving dodge + stealth + immobilize AND positioning you BEHIND your target? Girl you cray, that would be the most hella OP skill in game. And this is coming from a skirmisher sin with 7k+ WvW kills O.o

Collin has mentioned that the plan is eventually to make legendaries Acountbound on Equip so that you can use them on multiple characters, but I haven’t heard much about this lately.

John Smith.4610:

Ursan is correct, there are many, many players who have earned enough money to purchase or create a precursor outside of the TP.

No, the Precursor market is not controlled by goldsellers.

While gold sellers don’t control the precursor market, isn’t it possible that the influence it greatly and attempt to manipulate the market to force prices to an artificially high point?

Would LOVE to have SOMETHING to do with my rings besides dump them in storage

Onun.2593:

In my Hints Browser i have all checked … but still i have in the Hero Panel the Hint Completion at 82/83…. this must be a bug of some sort.. i already opened a support ticket.

Same issue here. I have all the hints checked off on the help page, but the achievements page is stuck at 82/83. Sorry for the necro, but is there any way to resolve this? I want my achievement points =(

TehGear.8702:

Yeah you can craft a char to lvl 80, but that involves to spend time on doing it.
And the op wants to avoid spending much time on it, as far as i can tell.

Doing each crafting profession to 400 takes ~6 hours if you just crank it out. Using buy orders you can get everything you need for all of the professions for ~50g

John Smith.4610:

Not even close: 9 and 11

Would it be possible for players to have access to this sort of transaction data? We can monitor sell listing volume, but as you’ve pointed out, that’s not particularly useful.

Res orb or a ranger with search and rescue

Submit a ticket and request a rollback. Don’t be an idiot in the future.

Thereon.3495:

One tip I can give for the queues is to get yourself in the main LA server and every five minutes or so re-enter a queue. Until they fix the queue system its a free for all to get in because queuing for longer doesnt necessarily mean youll be first in.

Almost positive this is completely false.

Don’t play a straight-glass toon on fights where it’s not advantageous to do so and learn your skills properly. I can think of at least two different War utilities that completely mitigate the bird damage, and you should be able to dodge-roll most of the damage from all the others. Bring a warhorn for extra endurance regen if you’re wasting your dodges to much.

All of his melee attack have huge cues and it’s stupid easy to just cripple this guy and kite him out if you’re bad at dodging the melee

tl;dr stop being bad and complaining b/c you can’t full zerker + greatsword faceroll through every boss in game.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Minos.5168:

Though, I guess that does promote transmutation stone sales in the gem store.

Map Complete is where I get mine. I’ve never bought a single transmutation stone from the store and I have a stack of about 50 fine, and around 200 regular.

It’d be real nice to be able to upgrade all those normal stones into fine stones, though. I’ve got almost 2 stacks of the normal ones sitting in my bank (working on my 5th map completion) and they’re basically useless for me =(

If you salvage a PvE items while in the Heart of the Mists, you will NOT get credit towards your monthly PvE Achievement. Just a heads up for everyone who uses this avenue as a cheap way to get back to LA.

rooster.2745:

using the solo 1 method , and tried the ten and very dissapointed lol , had used 62 ectos and have 27 clovers , i think thats good odds?

It’s better than average. The average is 1 clover in 3 forges with a standard deviation of ~0.25 clovers in my experience.

Firegoth.6427:

Kid Taylor.5479:

The 20% gold infusion. I play dungeons alot and this would jump my money pile greatly.

You need the utility jewelry first.

As for me, Endless cat tonic.

Better to get the infusion first…we’ll likely see alternative ways to get amulets in the next month

trane.4569:

I’ll be crafting my mystic clovers pretty soon.. I’m just waiting to get my 1 million karma..
But I’m wondering:

Which recipe should I go for? 10 or 1?

I know that 1 recipe has technically 33% chance of success, but I also heard that the 10 recipe stacks the success % if you do them all in a row. Is this last statement true?

The statement about perentages stacking is copletely unconfirmed and likely not true. Really it coes down to whether or not you feel lucky. The 1-clover recipe involves a much larger num er of events so you’re very like to end up in a certain range of events ( 240-250 with a standard deviation ~10). Using the 10-clover recipe involvves many fewer events so you have a much larger standard deviation. You could get realy lucky and rattle off 3-4 winners in a row or you could get equally unlucky and miss many ina row. Neither is more advantageous, but i prefer the 1-clover recipe since the number of mats necessary is much more predictable

Vol.5241:

The chests really make things worse, I’m confused why they added it.

Everyone still loots all bodies and it only contributes to more culling.

What do they mean by chests? Are they on-screen popups like daily chests? Or something dropped on the ground at a different place than the corpse?

cargan.5689:

Leablo.2651:

Kareth.6572:

it just destroys the climate

Relax, brooms are low emission.

Its true brooms are carbon neutral especially if you plant a new tree each time you cut one down to make a broom.

What is destroying the climate is the lack of Pirates, those few that are left are in Orr and with the changes are now endangered..

Rather than brooms the gem shop needs more eye patches and shoulder trained parrots if we are going to save the world.

Give this man a cookie.

My guess is that you would be able to force a disconnect to circumvent the Agony at the Jade Maw. I assume that, before a phase change, all but one or two people could force a disconnect, and then have the remaining people activate the phase change. The people left behind would eat the Agony-death but then the remaining players could reconnect, revive the downed players, finish the phase change, and continue on with the fight. This would let them continue progressing above level 50 (which was hard-capped due to a mechanics change in the last patch).

marnick.4305:

No. Currently there’s a single Ascended Amulet available for gold. The name is “Triforge Amulet”.

So far there doesn’t appear to be a recipe to upgrade it to the infused (inherent +5AR version) though.

FLFW.3105:

Errant Venture.9371:

QuartzMoped.2370:

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

It’s displaying the daileys based on your system time, but the server actually hands out credit for completing them. So you need to your system time to the correct time. (It’s probably set for the wrong date.)

So.. what kind of operation do you all got going on? Computer time and date effect dailies? Really? Seriously? LOL!

The dailies change each day and are on a set cycle. My guess is that they’ve loaded the entire SET for the WEEK into the client already, so they don’t have to manually update the achievements each day. Messing with your system clock (which is what your client uses to display the time) probably confuses the client into displaying the WRONG dailies. You can’t progress those dailies because the server has its own clock and know to give achievements based on that clock.

So basically they failed.. again

Not really…more like the players who haven’t managed to set the right date on their PCs failed.

QuartzMoped.2370:

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

It’s displaying the daileys based on your system time, but the server actually hands out credit for completing them. So you need to your system time to the correct time. (It’s probably set for the wrong date.)

So.. what kind of operation do you all got going on? Computer time and date effect dailies? Really? Seriously? LOL!

The dailies change each day and are on a set cycle. My guess is that they’ve loaded the entire SET for the WEEK into the client already, so they don’t have to manually update the achievements each day. Messing with your system clock (which is what your client uses to display the time) probably confuses the client into displaying the WRONG dailies. You can’t progress those dailies because the server has its own clock and know to give achievements based on that clock.

Robert posted about a week ago that you WOULD be able to upgrade the amulets to have an inherent +5AR, but when asked as to what the recipe for upgrades would be, he responded “You’ll have to wait and see.”

I’m sure the Triforge will be able to be upgrades to +5AR along with the other amulets, we’ll just have to wait ~2 weeks for the first amulets to be gotten before we figure out the recipe. I recommend keeping an eye on reddit

Afaik there are no rings or backpieces thhat have utility infusion slots…the only come in offensive and defensive vareites. This means that the new infusions can only be used in amulets and (for now) are limited to one per person and will take a month and a half to get (50 laurels for amulet + infusion). Doesn’t seem so bad to me.

JayMack.8295:

Wulfghast.7685:

Zhaitan says hello. http://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x344/Wulfghast/gw313.jpg

How did you get there?

Is it something to do with Path 2’s ship skip exploit?

No it’s an unused dragon model way out in the ocean in Cursed Shore. iirc. Not sure if it’s actually Zhaitan or an unused model for a planned Dragon Champion event.

Very impressive, this guy is a beast now.

Death Reincarnated.3570:

They probably didn’t make it account bound because players would exploit this. Dailys don’t take much time to do, in general. Players can make a character, do the daily, get reward, delete character and rinse’n’repeat.

Now you see why this is not a good idea.

This was brought up already, it would be relatively simple to check the number of available character slots on an account, and use that value to set the limit. I.E. I have 6 available character slots, I can run the daily 6 times. If I have 10 available character slots, I can run the daily 10x a day.

Akari Storm.6809:

LMFHCNASAO!!!!!
The whine in the forums is almost aged to perfection.

I’m sure that in future patches, addtional ways to obtain laurels/ascended anything will be put in.

As far as having the what I think someone called a tactical disadvantage in WvW because they initially can’t get 8 ammy’s, one for each character they have…Well, niether will the rest of the community who have 8 characters. It’s not like you would know what your opponent was wearing anyway. Say you and said opponent had identical gear choices/stat choices/build choices and you lost. How would you know that you had all the same stuff? Say you get beat by players who only have rares, which I assure you…probably happens more often than you think, how would you know?

It’ll be fine. The sky isn’t falling. No need for panic.

I may be wrong, but isn’t there another thread talking about retroactively giving these awards for accumilated achievement points? I think I read that even the infinite achievements like the Entropy one for salvaging items would have a cut off point for rewards. I may be wrong.

As I mentioned earlier, the retroactive rewards will only be for the single-completion achievements. The calendar-gating will still be a problem, even after this change. The simplest solution would be to allow the amulets to be bought with Pristine Fractal Relics in addition to Laurels.

BroScientist.9875:

So I’ve completed 4/5 of my daily achievements and all that is left is the daily gatherer. It says I need to collect 20 gatherings to complete it. Does this mean I have to find 20 resource nodes through the world? Anyone have any tips for completing this?

Thanks!

Wood and ore count 3x towards the achievment, cooking materials count once. Not hard to do at all, just run through a zone and find resource nodes.

Raine.1394:

That’s enough. I can’t get anyone to die in order to revive them. I give up. Been looking for a corpse for several hours, no ones cooperating. It’s now 2 days without completing dailies. I don’t think I missed more than one or two since launch and now I can’t complete one. Thank you Anet. Beautiful work.

NPCs count, and there’s usually a plethora of dead players in WvW + Orr

alcopaul.2156:

The point that kittens in game should be hard to get, to appease the hard core players who think that everything in game are easy to get.

ascended – bridge the gap between exotics and legendaries right? that’s what you wanted, that’s what you’re getting.

They’re not HARD to get though, they’re just calendar-gated so you can only get them a defined rate. If I want to play multiple builds or multiple characters, I’m put at a disadvantage. I’d LIKE to be able to put in the extra work so that I can play in the manner I enjoy but the mechanics don’t allow that. I don’t want to impinge on anyone else’s playstyle or fun, the altaholics just want to be able to play ALL of our characters without being at a disadvantage because of a calendar-gate.

fractalKinesis.8569:

Errant Venture.9371:

fractalKinesis.8569:

OP plays too much.
Dailies aren’t your way of gearing up anyway, why even concern yourself with it?

Dailes ARE your way of gearing up, now. They’re the ONLY way to get ascended amulets.

Do you really NEED these special amulets that are probably no better than what you would get from other sources?
Don’t be so obsessive.

There’s a 5-7% difference in stats between available exotics, and ascended amulets. Additionally, an ascended amulet allows you to have an addition +10 Agony Resistance. That’s a BIG deal and I’d like to be able to put in the extra effort to gear out all of my character in these new pieces. The game doesn’t let me do that.

Mkalafut.1273:

Before I leave this thread for good, I think the account-wide system is great and allows for people to do the dailies and monthlies the way they want. Forcing people to do them all on 1 specific character (50 wvw kills, 100 events, and whatever else they do) is not ok and limits options players have.

There will be more options for laurels in the future. That’s all I really gotta say since nobody seems to listen anyway I’m not gonna type much more out I’ve said what I’m going to say.

No one besides you is talking about restricting dailies to a single character. The altaholics in this thread want the ability to either purchase Amulets with Pristine Fractal Relics or have the ability to REPEAT dailies more than once in a day.

Please read before pitching a kittenstorm next time.

Mkalafut.1273:

That’s a horrible idea. Now I’m seriously leaving this thread lol… just lol

Why? It doesn’t affect casuals in any way and it let’s the altaholics PUT IN THE EXTRA WORK to gear their characters in the way they want to. This game is supposed to be about playing how you want, when you want. This patch doesn’t let people with multiple 80s do that, and you’re turning a fairly constructive discussion into a trollfest.

Doggie.3184:

Oh god, no. I don’t want to have to do dailys multiple times a day >.<

You shouldn’t have to. But I shouldn’t have to take 5 months to gear all of my characters because of calendar-gating. Let ME repeat the dailies as many times as I have characters, or let me buy my amulets with the Pristine Fractal Relics I’ve already earned.

fractalKinesis.8569:

OP plays too much.
Dailies aren’t your way of gearing up anyway, why even concern yourself with it?

Dailes ARE your way of gearing up, now. They’re the ONLY way to get ascended amulets.

Mkalafut.1273:

Holy crap the patch just dropped and so many people complaining. The laurel system is fine. You’re gonna really complain about something they DIDN’T HAVE TO ADD? They are fine as account-bound items. That means you can still do the daily on any character you want and still get the laurel.

Right but I’ve got 5 characters I want to gear. I’m going to have to spend 5 MONTHS at a competitive disadvantage to people in WvW because I can only get 1 laurel today. If you’ve only got one character, the new gear is fine. But it’s not fair to anyone who plays more than one level 80 b/c clendar-time and not game-time is the limiting feature.

I WANT to put in the extra work to get my amulets, but the existing game structure won’t LET me so I’m FORCED to play at a disadvantage on my alts.

Vorch.2985:

Laurels will be awarded for achievement points as well. We don’t know the ratio.

Thought that warranted the highlights

Those are still going to be one-off rewards and the calendar gating will still be in place.

rtommaso.3120:

How about PvP dailies and monthlies? Those dont reward laurels? (and dont forget february has only 28 days)

PvP Dailies do not reward laurels

rtommaso.3120:

if the monthly awards 10 laurels, you can get 80 laurels a month, which means you can qequip 2 of your alts/month.

It’s 35 Laurels per Amulet, and you’ll get 40/41 Laurels per month (30/31 dailes + 10 for monthly). So every 7-ish months you’ll have enough spare Laurels left over to equip a second toon that month.

Yep, portals filled 2/3 of the room and one shot people. Nearly impossible to dodge (let alone see) the circles with the choppiness of having 20+ players spamming particle effects in one room. Le sigh.

Erasculio.2914:

Errant Venture.9371:

Forcing EVERYONE to be a casual player is not great design.

Not rewarding grinders more than casual players is a wonderful design. It’s the only way to make people not grind, which was ArenaNet’s goal – “we don’t want players to grind”, remember?

I thought the goal of the game was to let everyone play how they want, when they want? Punishing me for having alts doesn’t make the casual player’s life any better, and makes me very annoyed.

Melana.8345:

They were talking about adding stuff based on achievements as well – though it wasn’t 100% clear whether achievements (e.g. all those jumping puzzles/story completion/etc things) would earn laurels or something else, it sounded like they would be earning laurels. That wasn’t included in the initial release because it wasn’t ready yet.

If achievements are going to earn laurels, it’ll remove the daily/monthly calendar gating. If you’ve got multiple level 80 characters, you will have multiple story achievements/etc available to get laurels awarded for. It’d greatly increase the amount of laurels available (kind of like karma jugs improved karma availability).

They’ve already stated that achievement based Laurels wouldn’t be for any of the repeatable acchievements. They’d just be one-off rewards and the gating would still be in place. Don’t forget there’s a lot of OTHER cool stuff to buy with Laurels and I’m going to be required to put ALL of mine towards amulets and not cosmetic items in order to stay competitive.

Erasculio.2914:

toxianguardian.4850:

I’m cool with grinding gear. I’m cool with gear treadmills. Because i can keep up with them.
What’s not okay is this laurel amulet stuff.
1 laurel a day? 35 a month roughly? Thats ONE AMULET anet.

That’s exactly why this laurel system is so great.

Grind is bad for a game. The gap between the majority of casual players and the minority of grinders is also bad for the game. When ArenaNet said, “we don’t want players to grind”, it wa obvious that they were not cattering to grinders. Laurels are perfect for this – a grinder is not going to get more laurels per day than a casual player, even if the grinder plays 10 hours per day and the casual players a single hour per day.

This is working as intended, and for the records it’s a great design.

Forcing EVERYONE to be a casual player is not great design.

MHE Tiger.4875:

how many months would it take for you to equip each one of your characters with a legendary? Probably longer…but I don’t see anyone complaining about that

Not sure what to tell ya man

Legendaries don’t offer me a stat advantage over Exotics. Ascended gear does. I shouldn’t be forced to play at a lower level than other people for months at a time because a calendar gating mechanism prevents me from gearing out my alts.

Let me put in 5x the game time to gear my 5 alts. Don’t gate me with 5x the calendar time.

Reloading.3260:

Errant Venture.9371:

Reloading.3260:

What if, for each of your 80’s, you had to farm fractals to get your ascended gear.

And now you don’t.

I’d be fine with that, because I’d have the CHOICE to farm my gear at my own pace. Here, I’m restricted to one amulet per MONTH.

Well guess what? You can still choose to go and farm your gear at your own pace in Fractals, OR you can choose to pick them up via dailies/monthlies instead without doing fractals.

Though wait for it, this is really mindblowing, you can even CHOOSE to do both at the same time!

This is exactly what I CAN’T do. I can ONLY get my amulets (the only pieces I need for BiS on all my characters) via the daily/laurel system. I don’t have any other options, and there’s a strict calendar-gating mechanism which limits my ability to acquire those pieces to a snail’s pace.

XelTorias.1364:

In case you’re encountering that game client disconnect issue, one way to go about saving your progress is to logout and then log back in again whenever you’ve done a portion of your dailies.

That way you won’t lose a whole chunk of them whenever you get dc’ed.

Thanks for the tip, I appreciate it.

synch.2980:

but the calendar-time gating is irksome.

This is my main problem. I don’t mind having to put in 5x the amount of time to get my 5 characters geared. But I should have to put in 5x the GAME TIME, calendar-gating me is simply ridiculous.

Reloading.3260:

What if, for each of your 80’s, you had to farm fractals to get your ascended gear.

And now you don’t.

I’d be fine with that, because I’d have the CHOICE to farm my gear at my own pace. Here, I’m restricted to one amulet per MONTH.

Astraea.6075:

While I don’t wholly disagree with your suggestion, I would note that making this change will mean people won’t be able to use contributions from alts to complete their dailies and monthlies. People will then complain that they are “forced” to use one character exclusively so they can complete these achievements.

It may be very hard to design a reward system for dailies and monthlies that satisfies both groups.

Again, this is understandable. Giving us only ONE mechanism to obtain amulets and restricting that mechanism so that it takes a month to complete each item is NOT understandable though. That’s why so many people had a problem with FoTM: it was the only way to get rings.

At the very least, allow us to buy Amulets with Pristine Fractal Relics. Currently they’re useless for people who’re already geared in rings, and it would give another means (which is much less limited) to acquire Amulets.