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The queen didn’t get kidnapped and if an amazing story with no holes is so easy, can you please make a story in GW2 that coincides with the lore (without retcons, mind you)?

Only casual players are “forced” to bring out their credit cards to keep up with the best gear and that’s only because they’re so casual that they don’t realize how easy it is to get the best gear (and/or don’t have the time to get it, even though it’s superbly easy).

Your entire wall of text is countered by the logic of players actually, you know, playing the game.

The quotes are:

We’ll also add a new set of account-bound crafting materials to the game. You’ll receive these materials as guaranteed rewards once per day per unique location for completing content within a category of gameplay in Guild Wars 2.
For example, capturing camps, towers, and keeps in WvW will earn you these crafting materials. In the Living World, you can earn them for killing giant world bosses, defeating dungeons, completing jumping puzzles, completing mini-dungeons, finishing some types of guild missions, capturing temples in Orr, and other activities.

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ProxyDamage.9826:

The Baws.5164:

and the stealth is far longer than any of the stealth that Mesmers or Engineers can provide.

It is longer, I said so. It is one of their advantages. That said, most of the “skipping” you can do with a Thief can be done with either of the others, just not as easily.

The Baws.5164:

as well as reflect projectiles.

So can Guardians and Mesmers, with a higher uptime I believe.

Skipping with a Thief requires a patient group. Most people do not wish to sit inside of your Shadow’s Refuge for the full duration (nor do they understand that premature leaving will cancel their stealth).

When I skip mobs, I am able to run with 17 seconds of Stealth on my Mesmer. After which, I am able to Portal my allies to me to avoid the hassle of leaving someone behind (because I leave them all behind) because they died..

There are 5 Minor Sigils worth more than 4s. All of them are not capable of being on dropped Masterwork Items.

Masterwork items will only carry a Minor Sigil.

If you then apply the probability of successfully salvaging, you’re not really making that much…

It’s possible for their not to be a Veteran at Faren. Simply keep the two Horrors away from each other while killing them (or CC as much as you can, on both of them). Once they are dead, you can focus on the Fire Extinguisher. If you move while using it, it’s possible to clear the flames in 2 shots.

Yeah, I can see that. I take a lot of damage from the Reaver’s, yet I can reflect their attacks so I just drop a Feedback and focus on the rest of them while stomping their remains so they don’t get re-animated.

Exosferatu.2961:

Hello, FrankTheTank

I am a warrior as well. Warriors should trivialize Scarlet’s Playhouse.

Anyways, I recommend that you eliminate the Twisted Menders first at the Cauldron of Searing because they will revive fallen Twisted monsters. On the Aetherblade’s phase, take down the Aetherblade Striker first because Strikers will stun you horridly and you will be render useless throughout the fight.

That’s incorrect. The Menders will re-animate Twisted as Reaver’s.

The Horrors will re-animate Twisted as Menders.

The Reaver’s will re-animate Twisted as exploding turrets.

kaikalii.4198:

He probably called you dumb because you are using only one MH weapon and 2 OH weapons. The only situation where I can think of this being a good idea is if you either want to only have to use one trait for MH weapon, or if you want to be able to switch OH weapons without switching MH weapons. Most people probably wouldn’t do this, but hey, if it works for you, there’s nothing dumb about it.

It can work, but it’s mostly only efficient on Thieves since they have no cooldowns associated with their weapon skills. It can also be useful to save money (one sigil of on-kill stacking on the MH and 2 energy on offhand or something like that). But it’s still a, typically, silly move to do.

Just get yourself a sword, while you might not always be melee, there will be times where you need/want to go melee.

Really? I was able to save Lord Faren every time I did it solo and even the one time I did it duo. Heck, the first time I did it, I saved him and beat the instance (I did it again a few more times to get the no-death since I kept doing silly things to not get it).

LameFox.6349:

Oh. I thought you were going to say all your armour turned pink or something.

IIRC someone posted about killing her in water before though, with no crash, and there have been a lot of people getting crashes whilst killing her in general, so I have doubts it was her being in water that caused it.

Yehp, I did it in Bloodtide Coast (I’m also in NSP) and did not crash.

I believe it’s 30 minutes since the last completion to get “full” rewards, which is 26s + 20 tokens. I ran Sorrow’s Embrace 3 times yesterday and received 20 tokens each time, but I waited somewhere between 30-60 minutes between each completion.

It would need a lot of work. The current airship is really, really, really rough. Especially on the camera. Have you ever done Arah Story mode? Your screen will essentially have a vibrator attached to it.

Also, the Heroic Edition is not a limited-time bonus to the Digital Deluxe. It is a permanent new addition to the Digital Deluxe.

Dhampyr.2104:

Huh, blink breaks stealth? I didn’t think it did – matter of fact, I tend to blink in stealth for just that reason. Really helps juke folks in WvW.

It doesn’t. It shows you as not stealthed on your screen, but on enemy/ally screens, you’re still stealthed.

With your build #1, it doesn’t offer the most dps possible.
First off, your runes grant you +5% damage to enemies under 50% health. This doesn’t affect Phantasms and, since you’re a Phantasm build, it doesn’t add that much dps. (I would also say that the III in Illusions is bad, but there’s not much else to pick for a Phantasm build.)

Secondly, your traits don’t include the Sharper Images in Dueling, which adds an extraordinary amount of dps.

If you’re just going for pure DPS a better build would be:

20/20/5/25/0 or 20/20/0/30/0

The reason is that you grab Sharper Images, can pick up Sword or Pistol mastery (along with Phantasmal Fury) and, in Domination, you can also trait into +Illusion damage and your choice of Halting Strikes, Crippling Dissipation, Signet Mastery (lowest stunbreaker utility a Mesmer has access to) or Greatsword Training.

If you go 30 points into Inspiration, you can also grab Mender’s Purity, which is AMAZING.

If you are going to switch to grab Sharper Images, it might also be good to note that you can mix and match your gear to get a little bit more out of your damage by mixing in some Rampager’s with your Berserker. I’ll have to do some math to figure out the exact balance to allow maximum dps, but that’s for another day.

I’ll stop before I start ranting. And please don’t name builds “Best this” or “Best that” because there is no best build.

Yes you have to kill stuff for it to count…

And, I believe at the end of Flame and Frost, when you talk to the prisoners, they say that it was someone “from the city”.

VidGhost.3215:

Crafting from 1 to 400 is expensive it always has been 8-25g each depending on what one.

That’s a lie. It hasn’t always been 8-25g.

I don’t think so.

Oh right, keep in mind that my picture is of light armor.

Shifu.4321:

They’re alright, but like Daecollo said, it’s hard to find a matching set for them.

Almost done getting the gloves and I’m thinking of using an Aetherblade helmet to finish the set off.

16% uptime if you don’t die, change maps or do anything that would change a transformation effect.

Awwwwwwwwwh yiss. /sarcasm

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Scarlet is modeled after the Joker’s girlfriend Harley Quinn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_Quinn

So who is real Joker then? He is still hide?

Clearly, he’s Lord Faren.

jaka.9635:

How long will this offer, for the 20% off the upgrade, be available?

It’s probably going to last through the weekend to promote sales for the trial users.

Frog.8217:

i know this isnt the thread for this, but i always wanted to know: who is this dulfy person? he’s a regular player, a beta tester, an Anet employee?

He always has access to new content, so i wanted to know =P

Dulfy is a girl and she was just an information broker (for free!) and then received some beta privileges for doing a good job. Siegemaster Dulfy is named after her.

Information on Dulfy’s website is either written before an update or as/after an update has happened. In certain cases, it’s information that’s gathered after an update has occurred. The latest guides on the website have been added and updated after the patch, and were not written beforehand.

Most of the information is information players have gathered collectively and shared. It’s essentially the GW2 Wiki except on Dulfy’s page. (Hint Hint, if more players utilize the wiki, it would be the same thing!)

I don’t recall the Mursaat being able to grant inexplicably large amounts of wisdom.

If you use the item he gave you to talk to him, he asks you to talk to him.

It doesn’t occur to all mobs. Some mobs will get the icon, others won’t. I know most Moa don’t get it.

AndrewSX.3794:

The only reason there haven’t been nerfs (neither major fixes – aside MH Sword 1st skill, yay…) is only cause Anet said they do not want to touch balance prior their beloved PAX tournament.

Where one of the most compelling prof to play (and watch to play) won’t be due to stupid condispam brainless meta, but w/e.

Expect the patch right after it to contain all the nerfs they didn’t in this 2 months.

I’m expecting a major change right after it based partially off what happens in it. I’m quite sure they’re going to have reworks going in the pipeline right now, but there’s also going to be some tweaks based off of the results in the tournament. Oh well, that’s always the case, I just hope they don’t nerf Phase Retreat I mean, er… Mimic too hard.

Carighan.6758:

I think it’s because it’s not truly a multi-hit, probably because a multihit is a single attack in the game engine, so it could only apply a condition at a single point outside of external factors such as procs or combos.

While Confusing Images is 5 attacks, spaced apart, each applying 1 stack of Confusion.

Warrior 1h Sword Burst Skill is the counterpart to your argument assuming all the skills were coded by people on the same wavelength.

^ As in the actual Vorpp in person.

Evans.6347:

She’s certainly not a character everyone recognizes, so considering the announcement on the personal nemesis I think you can make your own conclusions.

Considering she made us her archenemy by placing us on the top of her "must get rid of" list I think she’s the one.

Avatara.1042:

It seems that being on your home server is the key. Which is really lame.

False statement.

Just make sure at least one of the camps you hit is a Twisted camp and not just Aetherblade/Molten and you should be fine.

Jordo.5913:

Esplen.3940:

Are you sure you haven’t already gotten credit for her today? She’s on a once a day loot system.

shes on a once a day system for all maps…not each individial one….unlike the event reward correct?

For credit on the achievements, it’s once a map.

For credit on the rewards for completing the Invasion, it’s on a daily per map.

For credit on defeating Scarlet (outside of Scarlet’s Playhouse), it’s on a once daily.

Does that clear up confusion?

I wanna see a clone die some more.

Don’t go to a zone you’ve done before.

Ramiel.4931:

Wait a minute, people don’t already expect to see nerfs in every patch? I go in with the assumption that we got nerfed into the ground, and every patch without nerfs is reason to celebrate.

There’s been multiple patches where we haven’t been nerfed?

Why not X/Battle + Battle instead? Also, you could put the last 10 points of Inspiration into Domination to get +20% Mind Wrack damage or +15% Phantasm Damage, allowing you to swap at will.

Im Mudbone.1437:

What I am not getting is why is the pick, axe and sickle free of any charge per use when you still had to purchase them to be used just like the salvage kits, do the different dev teams not share what each are doing amongst themselves?

Ask yourself how many times you salvage as opposed to gather.

Assuming each gathering tool was 20g when it was bought (about the price back then), it would take 50,000 or 25,000 (for the Sickle) gathers to pay off.

The salvage kit will take somewhere between 500,000-700,000 depending on when you buy it. Do you salvage 10-15x per gather (of each type [only 5-7 for sickle]) you do?

A Legendary Finisher made with a Precursor obtained via Glory… oooooooh.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Horrors will only merge into nightmares when low on health. Try focusing them down one at a time.

Unless this was changed in the last update, this is false information in regards to the Horrors right at Lord Faren in Scarlet’s Funhouse.

They can and will merge right at the start of the fight, forcing players to kite or kill them while putting out fires and killing more Twisted creatures.

Are you sure you haven’t already gotten credit for her today? She’s on a once a day loot system.

Esplen.3940:

Vol.5241:

Actually the mechanic is more complicated and I think it varies by enemies.

-they can get revived
-they can explode after 3 seconds
-they can be consumed by larger mobs, transforming them to even more powerful enemies

It’s…

Horrors (The Hound-like Screechers) will create Menders.

Menders (The Wasp-like Healers) will create Terrors.

Terrors (The Breeze Rider-like Spitters) will create Exploding Turrets.

Nightmares (The Karka-like Reflectors) will not create anything.

Also, when in combat, it’s possible for 2 Horrors to merge into a Veteran. If they do this while one of them is in the throes of death (dying animation) it will still work AND a scrap will appear on the ground that will typically be turned into a Mender fast.

Actually this event is very anti-zerg and if you do lag out, your machine will typically lag out in Lion’s Arch on a daily basis, regardless of there being a special event or not.

I play on a low-end machine that has a screen too large and a very bad ventilation system. I plugged in an external moniter that’s also much better than the laptop itself and run with 2 screens (1600×900 and 1680×1050). I have lagged once in this patch and it was once in an overflow at Scarlet right at the end of the event. I have completed the Invasion 16+ times and have beaten Scarlet at least 7 times.

Also, if you have problems tagging, perhaps you should try equipping ground targeted AoE skills to cast instead of trying to target mobs and attack them. I play as a Mesmer, one of the worse tagging professions, yet I get credit in every event I partake in. I make sure to tab-target until I get a proper mob with a high enough health pool for me to be able to properly tag.

BrunoBRS.5178:

KarateKid.5648:

DarkWasp.7291:

Sadly I think it’s done a little backward. The trash mobs revive while the big ones don’t seem to…

My first thought as well!

i imagine that’s the case because the mobs aren’t as much reviving each other through a slow process of healing, as much as they are fusing together into a stronger mob (weak living mob + dead mob = strong living mob). at least that’s what was happening during the closing ceremony instance.

Esplen.3940:

Vol.5241:

Actually the mechanic is more complicated and I think it varies by enemies.

-they can get revived
-they can explode after 3 seconds
-they can be consumed by larger mobs, transforming them to even more powerful enemies

It’s…

Horrors (The Hound-like Screechers) will create Menders.

Menders (The Wasp-like Healers) will create Terrors.

Terrors (The Breeze Rider-like Spitters) will create Exploding Turrets.

Nightmares (The Karka-like Reflectors) will not create anything.

Also, when in combat, it’s possible for 2 Horrors to merge into a Veteran. If they do this while one of them is in the throes of death (dying animation) it will still work AND a scrap will appear on the ground that will typically be turned into a Mender fast.

DarkWasp.7291:

If it comes down to it sometimes you just have to temporarily drop your tag and blend in with the crowd.

WOAH WOAH WOAH. You’re asking a COMMANDER to not TAG UP?

This is preposterous. I demand that you uninstall the game and proceed to stop posting on the forums this instant.

/sarcasm

I also like how the Commander is very uninformed about how the current Living Story Meta-Achievement works. Just like real life!

Ubrasaur.7103:

My rabbit finisher wasn’t showing up.

A dev already stated that only the default finisher will show up and it is intentionally made that way (for now).

atheria.2837:

Esplen.3940:

Join within 10 minutes of the invasion and you’re good to go. Invasions start at the beginning of every hour.

You are wrong, the timings are WAY off and many of us are being left in a ZERO zone with no events!

This is the THIRD THREAD of this problem so far, and I, for one, am sick of the naysayers.

SYNC IT OR REMOVE the map travel!!!

I don’t see how my timings are off. Every single invasion I have attempted to participate in has succeeded and I have participated in 16 invasions. I have joined both Overflows and my home world in partaking in events and have had succeeded greatly in both.

If you are having a problem, you might be interpreting something wrong or you may be in need of hardware help instead of software complaints.

So… if you need to get it now, why are you posting on the forums instead of working towards getting the mini?

After fighting in the Gauntlet, I was very happy that the fight was, well, very easy since all the attacks and mechanics were in a similar fashion. I would have liked to see more forms is all I could ask for.