Guild Wars 2

Because in GW1 it was Gold coins —> Platinum bars which were 1000 gold pieces, but most of the people joining GW2 would be confused and so they stuck to a simpler method. That, and Platinum isn’t worth as much due to finding rarer and stronger metals.

Unless there are thousands listed, then yes (off course, if it’s thousands listed of a crafting material, you should be okay).

Esplen.3940:

Then all the bots will get banned, prices will inflate, and people will all be angry happy!

AirlineDlx.5203:

Esplen.3940:

Another thing is to always~ list EQUAL to the lowest seller. Why? It puts you at the top of the stack, meaning you’re going to sell first if anyone buys.

~: Don’t always list equal to the lowest seller if it isn’t a guarantee sale, like a really unstable market. Make sure you check to see if the stock of a certain item disappear to list things, otherwise it might just be one of those “all the stock is gone, but we’ll be back later!” prices.

Actually matching the lowest seller doesn’t put you at the top of the stack, it will put you at the end of the queue of sellers who’ve already listed at that price.
For the leather squares market I really have no idea if it’s a good market, that depends on how much you’re making per day.

Matching sets you to be the next to get the order filled, I’m quite sure of this.

Crafting with cores is a very profitable market which I have been doing for months. My gold typically goes up and down like really unstable stocks due to my wanting to buy something and my wanting to make gold. I also sometimes make extremely bad investments which come back to bite me, but for the most part, I would say stick to a stable profitable item and use it sparingly until it gets worked out.

Example:
Turn [] core into lodestone. Sell lodestone.
Buy 4 [] cores. Repeat.
Repeat with 4 cores. Do not pass 4 so as to cut your losses if it fails.

That’s kind of my new method to make sure I don’t lose out on profit, of course I’m not selling lodestones, but that’s another thing. Always make sure to keep any profit to yourself and close friends because once it gets out, the supply will jump and the demand will either cease or the price will drop due to everyone trying to get their profits (although most people won’t do the math and will just try to undercut).

Another thing is to always~ list EQUAL to the lowest seller. Why? It puts you at the top of the stack, meaning you’re going to sell first if anyone buys.

~: Don’t always list equal to the lowest seller if it isn’t a guarantee sale, like a really unstable market. Make sure you check to see if the stock of a certain item disappear to list things, otherwise it might just be one of those “all the stock is gone, but we’ll be back later!” prices.

I doubt it, there are so many in and out of circulation that it’ll be like Candy Corn.

Personally, I don’t bother with the smaller stuff like that because it’s usually bots/ridiculously rich people manipulating them to get other people (like you) to constantly invest, then they pull the market down on you.

If you want to know a safer method to making money, turn cores into lodestones. It requires skill points, but if you do dungeons in between crafts, you should be fine. Additionally, if you have a high enough crafting profession, you can research what runes you can make with the profession and then sell those runes for profit. Make sure you research before hand and do ALL your math. ALWAYS.

If you don’t do your math, you’ll end up thinking you’re making profit but either breaking even or even going negative. (15% reduction on all sales, 5% from listing, 10% from selling.)

Player housing would be a nice gold sink, so would guild housing and whatnot.

Malediktus.9250:

LFk.1408:

Speaking from a personal perspective, I would be heavily against this.

I maintain a great deal of my profit margins because it’s easy to mask what i’m doing in this market. I don’t want my fingerprints all over my buy orders.

Haha. I am very in favor of this suggestion if it stops market manipulation like this. If you need to hide your name to make your “business strategy” work, than its very unhonest way to make gold.

Yeah, I was about to say, his post alone made me want the names in.

Make sure you set your default browser to “Run as Admin” by right clicking —> properties —> compatability.

Default BROWSER, not GW2. Why? Because Awesomeium uses your default browser to cache and load the pages.

LFk.1408:

Speaking from a personal perspective, I would be heavily against this.

I maintain a great deal of my profit margins because it’s easy to mask what i’m doing in this market. I don’t want my fingerprints all over my buy orders.

Your name seems familiar, aren’t you the guy that manipulates the market via threads in this section… especially with words like:

because it’s easy to mask what i’m doing in this market. I don’t want my fingerprints all over my buy orders.

From Cursed Shore completion alone, I’ve gotten about 14g in items, sadly, I have no Black Lion Salvage Kit to increase my profit by about 60s (not including ecto’s).

I got lucky with the runes in the items.

Still somewhat new, but interested, although unsure of my position due to school starting up on Monday.

Rank 10 Mesmer. If you don’t want me, I understand completely.

If we had names attached, you might as well make a huge trading guild which would bypass the BLTC and, in turn, get rid of a huge gold sink that they have in place.

Mind Wrack IS on an 11 second cooldown.
Diversion is on about a 33 second cooldown.
Decoy is on a 32 second cooldown.
Mimic is on a 36 second cooldown.

They’re entire burst combo is technically on a 36 second cooldown, but they can use one part of it (namely, the nukey part) twice in between the combo. However, you can react to this one.

Random question of the day:
Did you know blinding a Mesmer will cause a summoned clone to miss unless they aa before casting?

Rogacz.9865:

Thats one extra thing i forgot to add to the previous wall of text. I honestly couldnt care less if there were so many bots everywhere

Your entire wall of text is bashing bots. You very briefly touch upon the subject of hindering players by trying to stop bots, but what you don’t realize is that the 250 stack system has been a part of GW2 since before GW2 was even thought up. 250 stack sizes were in GW1 and were just as annoying since you’d easily have more than 250 of an item and bank tabs weren’t nearly as large.

The thing is, when I see people down on both teams, I’ll go for the finish instead of the res. Why? Finishing is faster than full-ressing and it also revives.

Then all the bots will get banned, prices will inflate, and people will all be angry happy!

I’m sorry if this sounds rude, but what I read out of your post was:

“I don’t understand why people have a chance to defend themselves against insta-gib burst. I mean, I understand that noobs people like to suicide for a kill 1v3, but then shouldn’t they get the kill?”

The answer to that question is, yes, they should. That’s why they need to have the skill associated with instagibbing. Say a thief runs into a 1v3, they have plenty of stealth skills to be able to stealth-down someone. You might argue that the downed person has a down-defense skill to interrupt, but the thief also has a lot of stealth skills which negate the target-required ones.

Additionally, having a “finish him” allows players to actually res mid-battle and not just be useless once insta-gibbed. This accommodates more team-oriented play instead of just “oh, I died, okay, I’ll be back in 20 seconds guys!”

Esrever.8613:

might as well put a capcha for trades above 250 and make it so stacks are much more.

in the beta the stacks were 1000.

and they didn’t choose 250 per stack because its smaller number to store since all the bits would need to be stored as a 32bit number either way and unsigned 32bit ints have a range >4billion. Anet can change something really small in their code and we could have 4b stacks in 1 small update.

Then bots would still buy in 250’s.

Look at the item, and it should say “Account Bound” at the bottom.

This means that the item is… bound to your account!

Kudu, by far.

Oh? My sources say Kudu’s a guy? But it’s such a… feminine name.

LaronX.8079:

I had one once. His name was M.O.X I told him to wait and that I will be back for him. I…I don’t know what A-net did to him b..but I can find him T.T

He’s probably hidden somewhere in Elona or Cantha…

Shatter is definitely more damage, but if you have 15 points in Inspiration, you might as well drop 3 Phantasms and afk on bosses because it benefits the team and the drop in dps is negligable, especially if you’re ranging.

Could you please re-write your argument in a more… explanatory way? I couldn’t really understand what you meant when you said things like:

GW2 , altough being a “PvP focused game” started class balance in the last stage of game development, changing drastically past iterations of chars customization ( traits, 1 year ago , were a totally different matter), so they did with conditions, boons and similar, like if they were doing things at random.

And also add some explanations to things like:

We should stop this silly comparison to justify this game failure launch: having played WoW beta and first vanilla ( altough i was very young), i can say that current balance in GW2 is not that better.

Thanks!

And then if we go back to when WoW was 4 months old, we realize that GW2 is ridiculously well balanced.

I go up and down. A week ago I was at 10g, 5 days ago I was at 30c (yes, seriously), 2 days ago I was at 3g, today I’m nearing 40g.

Olfinbedwere.5049:

Yeah it’s a 9 gold listing fee. That’s a lot to pay for lols. I’ve had a theory for a while (get your tin foil hats ready) that Anet has a Tp bot that posts and purchases items based on whatever criteria they’ve programmed into it to influence their market. A lot of times there are purchase orders for seemingly worthless items. I think their bot places purchase orders for things to influence the market and make crafting viable.

Just like the US government planned 9/11, eh?

Conspiracies are conspiracies.

Ziddy.2583:

You don’t need a macro to do anything. But people do it anyway. I don’t see your point. Watch the video, it’s pretty obvious to me. I’ve gotten almost 4k shatters off the macro on heavy golems testing it. It looks the same to me.

Except everything was laid out so he didn’t cast anything for the shatters. Also, if he did use CoF, you’d see the damage of the explodes on his damage dealt as those would have easily stacked for 2k+ non-crits total.

I see you added Deposit Collectible (grayed out) on dungeon tokens. Does that mean we’ll be seeing a slot in the collectible tab for them, preferably for more than 250 as some rewards cost more than 250. Additionally, will be able to buy without having them in our direct inventory, e.g. in storage/collectible like with crafting ingredients?

Ziddy.2583:

Alright so he didn’t daze, he used distortion. And?

You don’t need a macro for that. He KNEW the thief was still somewhat close as the clones were still alive, the thief runs into the middle of 3 illusions AND the mesmer, meaning a 4mw without any prep necessary, plus blurred frenzy + flame sigil proc + all doez creetz = legitimate, especially with the thief having 14k hp.

What if they’re small?

Although I may not be good at it, I love it. There’s a lot of play in regards to skill versus just running “that op build”, now it’s not as skill-based as, say, Touhou Hisoutensoku, where the only limitations are your skill, but it’s really well done for an EARLY release MMORPG.

Ziddy.2583:

He didn’t blurred frenzy, but he still used a macro.
He dazed, decoyed, mirror imaged, mindwracked all conveniently with 1 button press!

Bro, look at the video frame by frame, you can see him using BF while MWing. There is no daze.

Kavia.8249:

Esplen.3940:

He didn’t use Diversion, he used Blurred Frenzy. Look at his character animation, you’ll see the blurry effect appear on the real one as the THREE clones explode.

Look at it frame by frame.

Then explain how he uses Blurred Frenzy again on the downed body?

He downs the dead body. Broski, and BF has a channel duration, you don’t have to re-cast it when people go down.
If you’re wondering why he blurs mid-cast, that would be Distortion, not Diversion.

urinfamousr.7631:

Seether.7285:

andyj.5809:

Bunker staff ele is unkillable.
Me and some people I play with were messing around one day, one of them plays staff bunker ele on one of his alts, he decided to see if me (burst power necro) and a friend (GS warrior) could take down his ele. We were fighting for 2 or 3 minutes before we finally got him down, all 3 of us are good players and it just wouldnt be feasable to waste that much time in a game or to kill it solo.

The reason you dont see it much anymore though is because its awkward to defend points with as it has to move around a lot.

Nice so you brought two people with limited/no poison application and limited hard ccs to take down a class the relies on healing and evasion to stay alive and you wonder why you had problems?

With your necro/warrior combo you will either correctly land your cc/burst and instantly drop the ele or he will seem unkillable if you are unable to coordinate your burst and ccs.

if it takes multiple people to coordinate their cc’s/burst just to kill 1 person then something is wrong there…

Correction: Instagib someone without them being able to do anything.

He didn’t use Diversion, he used Blurred Frenzy. Look at his character animation, you’ll see the blurry effect appear on the real one as the THREE clones explode.

Look at it frame by frame.

Embolism.8106:

Deception is fine as it is: it is a guaranteed stomp breaker unless your enemy uses stealth. Comparing it to the Ele, which has the most OP downed kill in Vapour Form, is unfair.

Either you typed that a bit off or what I think you perceive as Deception is Distortion, the F4 shatter. Deception is the Down2 skill that teleports you, invises you, and creates a clone.

I’m not very good, but I’m wanting to improve, it’s just hard to find a group of people who can help me learn. I’m level 10, if you don’t want me, that’s cool.

Mesmer, willing to do/run any role as Mesmer (preferably), with tips/help/guidelines.

Although I’m not sure if I’ll be on… tomorrow/today, since I’ve been awake for about 26 hours now and I have to stay awake for another 14 hours at least.

^ You forgot stall/delay.

I do this sometimes when my tournament pops up, but that is the only time I will hop out, otherwise, I’ll just take it since… for the most part, I got outplayed.

You mean… like the way it’s set up but with the Private Rooms they’re adding in later?

Modkip.7681:

What he said ^

also in basic sPvP it would just turn into even more of a zergfest with the nodes being completely ignored rather than only mostly ignored.

And, to put it in LoL laymans terms: Imagine the game being stuck in lane-phase for the entirety of the game. It would basically be which lane can snowball all the way to the base without getting a roam/jungler help to defend, all the while everyone is still holding true to their respective lanes.

E.g. Top stays top until game ends UNLESS he is needed mid for a quick sortie. And I mean quick.

Nah broski, looking at the damage it was a 9k shatter, 1.5k from sigil of fire, 1.5k from air runes, and possibly 1.5k from phantasm crit. That’s 13.5k but there is more than just those sources of damage. Considering how squishy that thief was running, it’s believable, I could probably run a down on that guy pretty fast as well, although possibly not that fast as I can’t react that fast, nor would I have 2 clones out.

If you want to say, OMG THAT’S OP BS. Think about this: The thief has 14k hp at MAX HP. That means he is most likely running full Glass Cannon to instagib someone and just got hit by a 4shatter vs a… Glass Cannon mesmer.

Yeah, looking at the video frame by frame (I’m not going to video a frame by frame for you guys so go to ~0:33 seconds and pause it then spam → arrow key), you can see that as he went visible, he took a crit by a phantasm that stacked 3 conditions on him (probably the Mage Strike, which I’m assuming is the attack of a Phantasmal Mage which would be Confusion and Bleed since it was a crit, then he got hit by an auto attack by a …

scratch that, the guys running S/P so he probably got hit by a Staff clone which gave him a random condition + bleed with a crit, and got hit by an aa crit that caused flame strike while getting shattered by 4 which can easily hit for 9k + flame strike/aa.

OH WOW. No, watching the replay one more time, the Mesmer used S2F1 (BF + MW [Blurred Frenzy + Mind Wrack]).

Easily accounts for all the damage, flame sigil proc, shatter damage, and whatnot. He didn’t even go through all the BF hits, just enough to proc the flame sigil which got him down.

I don’t know what bug you guys are going on about, but I usually only hit for about 6-8k on 4MW total per target if they all crit.

According to my research, if a cog is rotating at a speed slower than expected by a bookah, it is possible for the cog to attain sporophyte upon itself. Additionally, it may attain some unwanted grubs, boars, and/or Inquest. These are to be disposed of accordingly.

This proves my theory that a cog rotating can attain sporophyte.

Found in the recovered pages of Researcher Blirka.

If you’re having problems with players being “unkillable”, you might want to try gearing for more damage and synergizing your skills/traits to making yourself stronger and able to mitigate more damage.

I’ve gone against tons of players where I, along with a few other people, get outplayed at once in sPvP. It is quite refreshing to know that I am bad, and have a lot of room to improve.

Making a game doesn’t make you good at it. You know the behind the scenes, but it doesn’t make you any better at the game than someone who dedicates themselves to getting better at it.

Now, if you want to adhere to the GW2 Balance team or whatnot, you realize that the people who theorycraft the builds that most people use are doing the same things that the people who are balancing the game are doing.

The people who are balancing the game are looking at lots of variations of skills and combinations. It’s not possible to find every combination, therefore a game will have issues, and it’s better to tweak things to get mini-tweaks instead of huge nerfs and huge buffs.

Additionally, there are things that are overlooked when creating these balances. All MMORPG’s are technically still work in progresses after release. Look at how many balance patches other leading MMORPG’s are going through.

They have all gone through hundreds of patches.

Now, if you want to say that XX is more balanced than GW2, feel free to. But remember that GW2 hasn’t even been released for 6 months. Those other games have been getting balanced for YEARS.

If you’ve built a game or coded a group project with deadlines, you’d understand where I’m coming from. If you haven’t, think about writing a book with 5 other people. Everyone works on a different chapter and tries to get it to work together. Tons of people are proofreading it, and complaining about mistypes, and problems, and redundancies, all while you’re still trying to get your own message across.

Look, cast it at the END of the first person downing you and DO NOT cast a skill. If they do not have vision of you, they cannot down you. The invis will “cancel” it, but you’ll still be in trouble.

Another thing to note is that if you have 3 illusions up that have been queue’d to shatter, they will stay on the field even if you summon more, potentially allowing up to 9 illusions up at one time, assuming you have the cooldowns and magic hands for it (which I don’t think is possible).

Yes, illusions will bypass the 3 illusion limit if they are queue’d to shatter.