Guild Wars 2

Luvpie.8350:

Our Recruitment Video:

http://tinyurl.com/c383cre

Check us out at Emerald-Fang.com

I think we still need Tiff to narrate. Maybe we can get some footage of the unkitegorized fotm.

Seras.5702:

Are the mystic forge recipes exotics? I’m also curious about this. I like playing the game & not spending countless hours & gold crafting.

Yes. Look up “mystic” weapons. They all have set recipes and require 50 skill points, 30 mystic coins, 5 t6 component A, 5 t6 component B. Except the sword which i think requires 50 coins for some odd reason.

Mostly people do it for look or storyline. There are some class specific skills/heals/and elites, but I don’t think they are commonly used or put into builds.

JJBigs.8456:

The OP’s point still remains, this has been a bug for as long as I remember and even with workarounds, its annoying and should just be fixed.

Definitely, I wouldn’t exactly consider it “showstopping” though. It’s annoying to workaround and should be fixed immediately. It seems like they fix bugs that make things more simple quickly (mossman, dredge ‘shortcut’) but take their time when it comes to bugs that make things less convenient (krait getting stuck, bloomhunger’s agony, cliffside=instant death, getting stuck in last fractal)

Edit: as to why they still haven’t fixed the cliffside boss bug… I have no clue.

Ranger

15char

Josh Foreman.8250:

Rising Dusk.2408:

I just wish there were some item that you could show off that, when people see it, makes them say “Wow that guy is a boss at jump puzzles”. You know, for people like me.

I would also like that. I’m going to be pushing for that when we release hard mode. I’m guessing it won’t be a weapon skin. Maybe a mini or a town hat. Don’t know yet.

Or a cape?

Yup, Krait stuck in ceiling. Just move on to the next group and when you come back, the krait will be waiting for you in the open.

Cool, all I got from this video is thieves hit hard. Already knew that.

Curo.2483:

Dante.1508:

Sorry if i missed it but can we save these Baubles till the next SAB installment, as i’d hate to keep say 250 and find out they are useless in future patches..

The future of SAB is very up in the air right now. I would not hold onto any baubles if I were you. If SAB is re-released, then the baubles will most likely be useable. However they would also most likely be farmable again. It’s not worth the risk. For all we know, Josh Foreman could get fired for being so transparent and reasonable with the community, and we would never see SAB again.

Hahahaha, love this.

You probably could have finished the pre-event by now…. just saying.

True. But I don’t think it would be worth it to stock up with plans of reselling. At prices a couple of days ago, it would have to peak over 4g per 100 gems for profit.

I’d say Ele. Thieves survivability stems around being invisible (for the most part, yes, you can have pretty good vigor too). Sometimes this is troublesome and you’ll lose aggro/they might heal.

I think eles would have better survivability as long as you can stay mobile.

Lets see.

1)Shovel
2)Slingshot
3)Candle
4)Bombs
5)Elite Skill
6)Whip

What would be 7? Bauble shop? Potions? Extra Life?

Edit: Me thinks large wallet (500 baubles)

I like the idea of armor. However if they add armor it will be ascended, which I think is pretty far off. Granted, they could just put in exotic, and update it to ascended when they release that, but that seems like extra work. I’d rather them just focus on ascended armor.

The back piece is a pretty good visual bragging right, along with fractal skins if you’re lucky enough to get them. I’m about 200 ectos and 100 relics away from my shiny.

My guild group is up to 28ish but quickly rising. Sometimes we only have 4 on so I’d be more than happy to run with you. I’m a mesmer, and the rest of my group is two guards, an ele, and a thief. The thief brings his warrior sometimes but he’s not high enough to run at 20+

I think it’s fine, and I remember a dev commented it was fine.

I just hope nobody actually agrees to it, but I know people will.

Just don’t accept the money and kick, that would definitely be scamming.

zerotwo.4731:

I just want one fractal skin. At this point I don’t care what it is.

That’s what I thought. Then I got the trident =(

Too much hypocrisy going on here.

Spend more time in the class section or PhP. Just stay out of discussion.

daicon.2476:

Josh Foreman.8250:

It’s a design aesthetic. A lot people want prestige items which means limiting them. You can limit items by making the amount of time/resources required to get them very large, or you can limit them having them in for a limited time only. We could make every item easy to attain and permanently available, but then we lose the prestige factor. If you don’t value the prestige factor, then no arguments are going to make you understand. It would be like arguing someone into liking heavy metal or kimchi. Personally, I don’t particularly value the prestige factor, but I understand that it is a HUGE motivating force that drives the engine of the economy.

Man after reading this I am so glad I no longer play this game.

I’m glad too.

Josh Foreman.8250:

skullmount.1758:

All thats going to do is feed the elitest mentalities, which is not good for any game.

Perhaps you are conflating two things into one. Do you think that elitist attitudes are the same thing as whatever it is that drives the desire to have prestige gear? Do you think one causes the other? Or are they only sometimes correlative? I don’t have any final answers to these questions. Like I said, personally I don’t find a lot of satisfaction in prestige gear. But I understand why it exists. And I’m not convinced that it’s unhealthy for a community like you are.

I like you Josh. Your content/design is great and I’ve enjoyed all of your answers. I hope they keep you around for a long time.

I completely understand why they would limit this. You can still get the skins, go buy them. Anet shouldn’t be responsible because you’re too lazy or because things didn’t work out for you.

Look at Runescape, they did that with Christmas hats and that was one of the biggest things in that game (I haven’t played for a very… very long time, so not sure if it still is).

Mystic.5934:

I’m a mesmer who usually does pve. I did some wvw last night and ran into this enemy ranger. I rocked him hard, but he was able to run away. I need practice immobilizing them. anyways, he couldn’t get me below half health and I repeatedly would get him to 15%, he’d run, heal, I’d catch up, get him to 15% again, he’d run, etc. eventually I just gave up :P I didn’t see that being a problem when I went in there, but I’ll probably equip blink from now on.

Blink, invis, focus (temp curtain swiftness + pull), runes of centaur. That should do =)

Not sure if I should report you for scamming or let the forums tear you up.

I would recommend posting this in the guardian forums. You’ll most likely get more insightful answers there.

Sea of Sorrows – [Fang] here. We’re always welcoming and always willing to show new people the ropes. We roll alts a lot so we won’t leave you in the dust. We are active in WvW, PvE, and dabble in sPvP.

We use the SoS community TS, which makes it very easy to coordinate in WvW.

We are always welcoming on Sea of Sorrows. We’re at a good place in WvW now, not too high, not too low.

We have high oceanic presence, but very strong on NA time as well (I’m est). Wvw is strong and PvE is strong. PM me if you feel like checking it out.

As for profession, warrior is the accepted PvE class. Has some decent uses in WvW, but not in sPvP.

Next would be guardian or mesmer. Both are extremely viable in PvE, WvW, and sPvP.

Thieves are decent in PvE and for some small group roaming in WvW. Eveything else is situational.

IMO

1) Get off the forums
2) Create a mesmer
3) Play said mesmer
4) Realize everything you said was rubbish
5) Begin to kill mesmers without lying on the forums

There should definitely NOT be a regulation of prices. The players will regulate it themselves. Just because you’re too poor too afford it, doesn’t mean the system isn’t working.

Also, it’s not half the price for the conversion, it’s 30%, to keep people from flipping gems (even though you still can… or could have, for long term).

Once the prices are too high, people will start converting gems to gold, cash out on their investment, and the prices will drop until people start converting gold to gems again.

It’s fine the way it is, I’d rather Anet not regulate it (even though already do with gold drop)

I’d say I have about 150 bauble baubles by now. I’ve gotten the scepter and two long bow skin drops. Bought the GS and sword w/ bauble baubles.

JJBigs.8456:

Shows what common forum’ers know and what they say without knowing the facts…sigh

Yes, there was an official response.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Revamp-Cof-dungeons-and-remove-boulders-trap/page/2#post1824603

Goto first page, first few replys

Shows what silly forum’ers know and how they interpret statements into crazy messages.

“revamp would be neat” =/= “Yes, we are actively working on updating CoF”

I definitely think CoF will be updated… but when? No clue.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

This was not built by the dungeon team, but instead by the living world team. William and I are currently working on other content in the game, which is why there weren’t any significant changes to the core dungeons this last patch.
We’ve been playing and giving feedback on the new dungeon though. It’s a different flavor from our normal dungeons, but still tasty they are trying some interesting things we will be keeping an eye on.

If you need any alpha testers, you got my account name ;-)

They take into consideration feedback, but they are most likely mainly look at metrics. Just because somebody comes on to the forums because some ele escaped, doesn’t mean they are going to instantly nerf ride the lightning or cantrips. They are going to collect data before they feed the whiny 15 year olds.

killcannon.2576:

Geotherma.2395:

killcannon.2576:

Geotherma.2395:

killcannon.2576:

Geotherma.2395:

killcannon.2576:

Vayne.8563:

Parlourbeatflex.5970:

Weirdly it seems Anet dont like their own forum… Considering we have little to no information and i have just stumbled across a IGN article with some revealing info is makes me a sad to think that this place should be first and foremost when giving out information about the game and upcoming updates.

This has nothing to do with Anet liking their own forum. It has far more to do with Anet playing nice with certain sites. By giving the “scoop” to fan sites, they get people to visit those sites, perhaps even in exchange for commercial consideration, or ad space.

It’s good to keep the fan sites happy. The information was posted here on the forums anyway, right?

Giving scoops is fine. But there is no reason why the GW2 players should have to search for the info. The forums are one of the easiest ways the GW2 dev community has to communicate with it’s players, and there is no reason why the forum mods or community managers can not link pertinent sites and interviews in the News section of the forums.

Players ask why the devs don’t communicate more with the forums, and are told time and again that they don’t have the time to. But yet we see constant interviews, feeds, news stories appear on other sites that the devs have spent hours on. I’m not sure if anyone is asking for exclusivity for the forums, but keeping them in the loop isn’t too much to ask imo. Forgoing your official forums for face time on other sites does more to alienate people than it does to bring a community together.

It was all over their twitter.. So really if you are a hard core follower (facebook,forums,news feed, twitter) you aren’t doing any searching. In fact I knew this when I woke up because I had an update on my cell from gw2 twitter.

I have GW2 in my news feed so I get the updates. But again, this just adds more to the fact that the forums aren’t being used effectively by the Anet team. You just added three more things they use more than the forums: Twitter, Facebook( seriously…facebook?), and news feeds. They are using all those, investing time, which doesn’t detract from my statement, but adds to it. Essentially “If you want info from the company go here, here, here, or here. Just don’t go to the forums, because it isn’t there”

Social networks > This forum. And you scoff at Facebook (yes I dislike it too) but it has 800 million users. Welcome to 2013.

Thank you for your point of view that facebook is greater than the forums, and should be taken more seriously than the forums.

Thanks for taking it out of context :P GJ
Social media accounts for a huge number of ad space and information. Far more than this or any forum anywhere. Users of this forums, users of GW2 know that the official pages are also great sources of information. The great number of players are usually internet savvy and use these social media outlets far more than this website/forum. So yes, as far as ads/revenue/information, facebook can reach a greater audience.

Didn’t take it out of context, it’s exactly what you said. And you just reinforced it with your follow up post. Does “greater than” mean something else?

Also, would you mind terribly if instead of stating which form of media has greater reach or availability, you would address my actual post? Which is “Why not keep the forums linked in to pertinent information disseminated through other sites or mediums either by url links or reposts?”

Most likely a clause in a contract that says they get 24 hours headstart on any information, before it’s posted. It’s a win-win for both companies, and if you care so much about GW2 news, the forums shouldn’t be your only source of information.

Although it sucks, I completely understand charging for custom arena.

Battlfield 3 did the same thing, and nobody complained. You have the arenas provided, so you can still play for free.

Turkashi.4502:

Ethics.4519:

No no no no no no no no.

No

I don’t want to carry a PUG through a dungeon because he’s too “scared” of dying.

also true :-/
solo lupi with only key turning

Haha, okay, I might be able to get behind that one. Instead of “Immortal” can it be “Better to be lucky than good”

If you are low on these, I would recommend jumping with some guildies or something and rolling till you get a specific level. IMO, Krait in underwater, veteran ascalonians, and dredge are the best for getting them, in that order.

I guess I just don’t share your feelings with this. It seems like everybody else doesn’t either.

Cities are safe, if you feel like you must go afk, then either log out or teleport to a city. If you go afk out in the environment, you’re open to whatever happens.

I really didn’t want to get into name calling, but the two people just running by are not morons, they were most likely just playing game, you’re the moron for going AFK with red mobs around, expecting not to get hit. I don’t know why you expect the game to protect you when you’re too lazy to do it yourself. As others have said, this would be exploited to no end, definitely in WvW, but also in PvE

If you were at the south-east of the map, you were not at Tequatl.

Yeah, the channeling skill affects all stealth, not just mesmers.

However, if you use staff, you have to be careful that the bounce of the projectile won’t pop you out of stealth.

No no no no no no no no.

No

I don’t want to carry a PUG through a dungeon because he’s too “scared” of dying.

Lambros Augustus.6594:

Rewarding me? I think there is something lost in the translation from the dictionary. More like respecting me by being neutral and not allowing my toon death for no reason.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reward

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/respect

Your toon died because you were attacked and didn’t respond, that is your reason.

I don’t approve of this suggestion. Either don’t go AFK, log off, or go AFK and know the risk in which you are doing it.

Edit: Also, I turned off the option to mute GW2 when in the background. That way I could AFK and still hear if I’m getting attacked, then quickly tab back in.

That sucks it happened to you.

On the reverse side, we were doing 24 or something and had a guy join. We asked if he had 15+ AR and he said “yeah, dude”. During the urban fractals he claimed to ‘know’ to go left, so I started asking him how he knew, since I would like to know this trick. He said something confusing and I asked for clarification, which he then told me to get an education. Coming from a college grad chemical engineer, I was rather upset.

I brushed it off, even though he died a lot. At Maw, with the unavoidable agony, he was downed immediately. He claimed to do several 30+ but it was clear he didn’t even have 10AR. We kicked him immediately and got a filler.

I’m sure he came running to map chat or the forums to complain.

Everybody is complaining about the price, well then don’t buy it. Those who do buy it, are probably more concerned about the animation and the convenience, not the ROI on the investment. If you’re a cheapo, don’t buy it. Plain and simple.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Ethics.4519:

The thing that makes the skin attractive to me is the look.

That’s fine, but remember that FotM exists to satiate players who want something prestigious to seek and a kind of dungeon to make progress in. If you want the skin as bad as you say, you’ll do what it takes to get it and not complain/worry about it when you don’t. That’s how I view it.

The rest of my post did say that I understand having a goal and more of a long-term investment type thing. I prefer something that you make progress towards. If it took 100 pristine fractal relics (not saying that’s what it should be, just giving an example) that would be fine, because every daily you did you would be closer to getting what you wanted.

Right now you could get the skin you wanted on your first run, or your 1000th run.

Mystic.5934:

a month after exchanging bows with people I read on here that that’s what most interpreted it as. NOT what I would of thought. after bowing I tried to walk by them, then escape when they attacked. They probably thought something was weird when I never attacked them once. /taunt should be the duel emote.

Haha, I picture it like karate, when you bow before the fight.

If I’m in JP and don’t want to fight, I /wave. Worked about 0% of the time in T1, works about 50% of the time in t4

haviz.1340:

My guardian can hit for 100-150k+.

Yeah man, that hawk didn’t stand a chance

Rising Dusk.2408:

Ethics.4519:

My character’s look is mutually exclusive from the looks of surrounding players, imo.

That’s true even considering what I said. The fact of the matter is that it looks cooler to you and feels more rewarding to you when you use an item if it was a very difficult path to get it. People would not push so hard or do FotM nearly as much as they do now if FotM skins could be grinded with pristine relics or the such.

The thing that makes the skin attractive to me is the look. If my mesmer would have started with anomaly and whisperblade, I’d still be using it to this day. I do understand the concept of having a goal and making something a long-time investment, but I can’t get behind the RNG aspect. Maybe RNG of getting a skin, but not RNG of the type of skin.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Excursion.9752:

Why does it feel like this issue will never be resolved. It depresses me every time I see this thread. Somethings gotta give.

Hopefully nothing ever does. People are all gimme, gimme, gimme and don’t stop to consider that more than half of what makes the skins attractive in the first place is the fact that they are so hard to obtain and RNG’d.

If you ask me, more dungeons need RNG rewards that have special skins.

My character’s look is mutually exclusive from the looks of surrounding players, imo.

Woohoo! Got my first fractal skin the other day. Was doing my 10th run or so of 20+ and saw my fractal skin! The amount of joy that overwh…. oh, it’s a trident. FML

Kain Francois.4328:

I’m just wondering how successful this is, because the gemstore is a weird combination of a cash shop and ingame shop.

If things are priced too high, people will usually not use real money. If priced too little, people will use ingame gold as well.

What is the middle ground where ANET earns profit? I’ve been reading a lot of stories about the pickaxe, so I’m just wondering about it.

They still indirectly benefit from people buying gems with gold. This raises the price of gold to gem conversion which will shift more people to use real money than in game money.

Mssg.7804:

idk but 5 ming ago mesmer 1 shot me with his F1 skill and I am guardian

This is the nonsense that spreads and makes people think that mesmers are OP. I 100% guarantee you were not OHKed by a mesmer.

Sounds like you’re just being lazy. You want some 80s with a premade team to carry you.

Start your own party on LFG and just say “Under 80s and newer people welcome”