Guild Wars 2

Yes, you still need the boosts, but those are farmable in the MK dungeon. For me the drop rate for them last night was about 1 in 3.

or add a MF recipe to turn them into chest keys

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Mad King Labyrinth and Lunatic Inquisition are the same map. There’s still one missing piece….

while in the labrinth you can look up to see the area that you port into when going through a door in the “real” world. You can also look in a different direction and see a “floating” island with what appears to be a mansion.

I like the idea of using the xmute stones. I seem to have way to many of them.

Last night I was in a “zerg” farm hitting the doors and someone in the group also got an endless pot from one of the bags.

Farm what you can now and sell them in a few months. The price for them will rise again.

I tried that recipe and received a recipe for a major night sigil for huntsman. I could have bought the recipe in the TP at the time for 53 copper. It was not worth it for me. I am presuming the reward is not completely static though, in that the reward may draw from a small pool of possible items.

I would like to make the suggestion of tieing an achievement possibly even an emote tied to the achievement for opening the BL chests. Doing something similar to the Zaishen chests in GW1. It would increase the desire and reward for opening the chests without effecting the drop rate of any rare items within it. As of now it seems a lot of people are not happy with the reward rate the the chests give. And this would give more of a long term enticement towards opening these even for the people who do not care about most of the items the loot table contains.

To Voyager: That is a good idea. I think they do need to tweek the drop rate for some of the rarer items in the chests. I do not think they should be to easy to get though. I look at it being alot loke the zaishen chest from GW1. The drops from the chest were mainly garp but every few keys you could get items that give you points towards certain achievements (sweets, drunkard, and party). Plus every time you used a key it went towards your zaishen title and that you would be able to show off with a flashy emote. If they were to add something like this towards the BL chests they could increase the desire to open them as well without changing anything game breaking in the loot tables.

To the OP: It would be nice if they also increased the drop rate for keys from mobs. It is obvious that they intended the keys to be recieved mainly through the item shop but increasing the drop rate to where you can get a key maybe once a week would not hurt sells in the shop. So far outside of the shop I have gotten 2 or 3 from rewards from clears and 1 from drops since release.

Hi my name is Ethros and I have a mystic forge addiction… I have not gotten a precurser yet, but I would be weary of adding just lvl 70 exotics to the forge. I would try for at least one 80 and the rest 70’s or two or more at 76 or higher. I have however had great luck turning rares into exotics recently. It might just be luck, but it seems the teiring up percentage for rares to exotics is higher than the fine to MW or MW to rares. A few weeks ago I was hitting about 3 out of 5 rares to exotics and a few nights ago I was 3 for 3.

Add a mystic forge recipe that makes a butter bomb. It can be a short term AoE cripple effect. That would give butter more of a use other than cooking. The changes made in that patch did help the butter epidemic, but we will still be flooded with unwanted butter in the TP soon. Besides, who wouldn’t want a butter bomb??

I like how we turn the recruitment message into a karaoke contest :P

Raap.9065:

Ethros.1453:

How about a tonic that transforms your character into an undead and allows you to do the male and/or female necro dance from gw1???

Makes undead in Orr ignore you unless attacked, for the duration of the event.

You know you want it.

Maybe they could even code it to do the dance animations with your character, that would be funny.

I like the idea of having a few things snuck in without any notice.., putting in easter eggs to be found by the players. It gives a little more encouragement to go out and explore. Besides, chances are that when they add these things it will be found fairly quickly and then shared here on the forums and youtube. Once one person finds it half the player base will know about it within a week.

TransparentlyOpaque.1824:

I hope the one time events have unique items that never appear in game again.

well, they had the hats in gw1. They also had the candy cane weapons, though those were only available twice a year ( wintersday and wintersday in july).

You guys are missing something here. The pigeons… These tough little critters are strong enough and fast enough to carry heavy armory half way across tyria in seconds.. (Rumor has it that they carried in all of the building material and war machines into orr themselves.)

What I propose is that we gather near million pigeons they have and send them straight for zhaitan. One is strong enough to lift and carry heavy plate armor great distances at very high speeds.. think what near a million of them could do.. We could get them together and lift the dragons out from their hiding spots and fling them deep into space (the multitude of them working together could gather enough momentum to accomplish this). Can Zhaitan or any other elder dragon withstand the sheer gravitational forces of a gas giant, a star, a black hole?? I think not! We could end this very quickly and with a minimal loss in bipedal life.

Come on, who doesn’t want the “This is my story. Today we sent the vast legion of carrier pigeons into the fold and came out victorious.” We could finish the story in just a few steps and the true heroes of tyria could shine.

MrsAngelD.6971:

Spiderwick.1879:

To participate in those events, will there be a level requirement? Or more like, they’ll take place in lower level areas so all can attend. Something like, in Queensdale, or something.

Arena Net love’s holidays and has always provided something for everyone. I wouldn’t worry

yep and hopefully the problems we had with the overflow servers at launch will not be as much of a problem when they do the Halloween events.

How about a tonic that transforms your character into an undead and allows you to do the male and/or female necro dance from gw1???

Does that mean there could be additions made without notice and any kind of visual or otherwise noted clue in game or out? for example something could be added and a week or two later someone just happens to come across say a sign that roughly says this way to a new test, event, happening?

When on land you can ready the mantras and use a skill immediately afterwards. While in water there is about a 2-3 second delay before you are able to use another skill (attack or otherwise). The bug seems to have appeared after the last build when the audio bugs were fixed when readying these in water.

To the op, this is what they have put in at release. I am sure there will be more added at a latter time.

There other nice things you can do with the karma that does count as a sink. Last week I was able to mix karma gear with drops and made an exotic (zhed’s coat) in the mystic forge. I was able to sell it in the TP for just over 8 gold. Tiering up gear in the mf is not guaranteed with every use.

It has been like this since launch. I had sent in two bug reports on it, but I had used crafted lvl 80 pieces. I had presumed this was intentional (giving some degree of chance on getting a better item). Is it intentional when putting in max level items?

Maybe you can speak to the black lion reserve to start an audit…

They seem to be randomized with each new build

very nice and grats

The only thing that it might help you on is when salvaging mats and maybe use in the mystic forge in getting an item of a higher tier.

Or at least put the account on a temporary block in our chat box after reporting.

Nice recruitment message

I tried it again just now. It is working fine atm

The launcher is flashing in and out when scrolling through the announcements ( after logging in and before hitting play) (bugged DX bug since last update?)

I am running Win 7 HE and have DX11. I had last updated my vid driver just before early access began and have not since ((ATI Radeon HD 5570 1 gig ddr3) 4 gigs ddr2 and AMD phenom II X2 555 proc. (dual ~ 3.2ghz). I am not sure what other info could be needed in order to replicate the bug or if it is more of a generalized issue.

It had not done this previous last nights update. The entire launcher will flash out then back in while scrolling with the mouse wheel or by dragging the scroll bar.

NinjaEd.3946:

Rounder.6703:

i second the motion for adding random weather.

It would be awesome to see some snowfall in Queensdale

Well not snowfall in queensdale, lol. The weather would be for zones thats appropriate for them. So shiverpeaks would see snow queensdale more tornados and rain. Possibly lightning but like I said, hard to add something that just zaps players all around without being annoying.

A tornado would be awesome and maybe give it some physical effects to the game as well.. It would be funny to hear in map chat “Thatkittentornado stole my mob” or “Did you see that centaur fly”.

nice find, which jumping puzzle was that?

I was curious about this as well. I have not seen anything official about it yet.

It’s a bug since the last build. And it’s spelled “Japanese”..

I personally do like having darker nights, dungeons, ect.. in the games I play aswell. The problem though I think would be from those that have vision problems being actually able to see what they are doing and of course not everyone likes not being able to see everything clearly in the game they are playing. Another problem with darker areas would be in transitioning from a darker place to a lighter place and back constantly would put more eye strain on those playing. I do think that they did it aesthetically enough that it looks good as is however.

Warsoul, they had stated somwhere (and of course I cannot remember where atm..) that there was a anti-farm code in place.
I would like to see something official as well about MF and how it works. You are right LeoDeSol about us being able to figure it out with enough data, but who wants the headache of having to sort and compile all of that info. An official response on the subject and how it works would be nice.

Katz.5143:

When I see the TP listing over 300 of an item for sale at 1 copper over vendor cost, I wonder if people know they will be losing money? Once the TP takes it’s cut you make less than you would have if you vendored it.

I end up selling a lot to the merchant NPC for that reason.

I have actually wondered about that as well. Why put an item just 1 copper above the merch price. The 15% tax if the thing sells will net you less than what the merch would give you if you just sold the item to it.

It’s part of market stabilization. Since the market is still new there are going to be fluctuations like that constantly (price drop on orich ore dropping from 3.8 to 3.3 in an afternoon for example). It will eventually level out at a lower price once the market has settled and flooded with each particular item. As far as the 1 copper drop just to make their’s sell faster; that’s normal and to be expected. I agree that the difference is nominal on just the one case, but others will undercut him and so on until the price of the item is more stable.

To the comments about making a profit off of crafted gear.. do not expect to. Since everyone can craft in every crafting profession the TP will always be flooded with gear and the prices will probably stay just 1 copper above merch price indefinitely. The base mats used (wood, leather, cloth, and ore only) will probably remain less than the merch price for the finished product (minus consumables).

In time there will be more money flowing in the economy and the prices will not be that bad.

Any item that can be crafted from a recipe bought in game cannot be found through the discovery panel. It can only be learned by using that recipe.

the 6 major cities, each starting zone and ebonhawke.. There may be more that I cannot remember atm..

nice build, it looks fun

Nice.. It gave me a good laugh