Guild Wars 2

The dungeon token recipes are not discoverable, they’re rare drops from chests/bosses in the corresponding dungeon & path. Keep that in mind if you want to make them. As far as I know, most sell fairly well due to having stat combos you can’t otherwise craft (although they’re not all that desirable).

I’m a terrible economist, just figured I’d throw this out there if you didn’t already know.

People farming Southsun instead of Orr, the Penitent/Shelter’s/Jofast chain nerf (events take longer to reset), etc, etc…

I can’t fathom these things maintaining such a high price without something being done soon. I’m hoping the next living story (after Dragon Bash) will draw the crowd to a dust-heavy area :/

The biggest problem with a lot of these new playable race suggestions is that most of the races that people want in the game have no home/main city, like quaggans, skritt, hylek, etc.

As someone who loves quaggans, I’d say no to them being a playable race. It’s just not practical. Same with hylek, skritt, etc. since in the personal stories they’re all labeled as lesser races. Why would a “lesser” race (species actually) hold the same standing as the current dominant ones? The race I see entering the game from an objective point of view is Tengu, since they already have a huge city/territory (Dominion of Winds) that they alone control.

For the boss events, its gw2stuff.

For the nodes, I’ve got no clue. I gave up running all over for them a long time ago :/

I think people are misunderstanding the OP. I think he’s suggesting that when you kill a player wielding a legendary, you have a higher chance at picking up a precursor. Otherwise the OP is high on some really good stuff :P

Even with my mouse at 3200 I have it set to slowest to be bearable. Maybe the issue is your mouse and not the rotation speed?

Likely to be nerfed. It’s supposed to be a convenience item to not have stacks of gathering tools, not to harvest faster than what’s already out there. Just my opinion.

Equipment acquisition by stats wiki page is my go-to spot for info on this stuff. Dulfy also has the info as a previous poster mentioned. I’m just lazy so it’s easier for me to just /wiki my way to this page from within the game :P

Could become an issue when laying down cover-conditions. For example, lay 5 stacks of confusion and then hit them with a long duration single bleed/poision/etc to keep them from being able to remove the confusion. It’s a valid tactic to be honest, and considering condition builds are still rather weak in groups this would amount to a nerf of some degree which really isn’t needed.

Mask padding + Mask strap + insignia = Mask.

It’s something you need to discover since masks (and shoulders) have no “simple” version.

Edited to add: Pretty much from this point on you’ll be using the discovery tab to unlock pretty much all gear except for a few which have recipes purchased from vendors. Once you hit level 375, you need to use recipes for rares to finish the last leg to 400, which you can buy from the appropriate crafting vendor.

Not sure if this still works, but revisiting the Chantry of Secrets in Bloodtide Coast used to fix this issue for people.

Care to elaborate? Or do you consider the forums a place to just post random comments without context?

Seems the TP is back up. Working fine for me atm.

Even if they’ve found the source of the problem, an ETA won’t come since a grand majority of people will violently scream at them the moment they’re five minutes late. If they haven’t found the cause of the problem, they can’t reasonably give an ETA they can stand by.

To be honest, be glad they’ve got people working on it and took the time to let us know. Better this than being kept in the dark as to whether or not they’re even aware of it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/New-Legendaries-Rework/first#post2074359

That’s your update. Only 11 days old, can’t be asking for daily updates :P You won’t be given true progress anyways because it’ll prematurely force market shifts on the precursors. John Smith (economist guy) said it’d “shock” the markets so they won’t be giving the info on a potential release date.

A level 46 guardian should be able to faceroll this even pre-nerf. Is your gear up to date? Even though you’re scaled down to level 26, if your gear is still level 26 you’ll probably be weaker than someone who’s actually level 26 with level-appropriate gear due to how downscaling works. The abominations shouldn’t take out 3/4 of your health in one swing if you have gear at your level.

Buy blues off the TP (practically merch value, so it’s a few copper per full set once you resell to the merch to buy the next) and try again. There’s no reason you should be running into trouble at that high of a level.

You should read some of the “salad” jokes on reddit. I think that’s the only reason it ever made its way into the game. It’s for comedy purposes, nothing more.

Bookah is the only arguably racist word, but even our characters in GW1 took it in stride when we were called that by Vekk (and other asurans? memory isn’t too good…).

Since this is a game, I’d have to say it’s only offensive if you let it be. In the real world, things are much more complicated.

Boy, if this were implemented I wouldn’t invite first timers into TA runs since they’ll just have completely broken armor by the end just from blossoms or failing to skip mobs, and therefore just be holding my group back.

All this does is invite more segregation of newbs vs. elites, and it penalizes said newbies for no reason other than supposedly forcing them to learn. I think the drain on their wallets and teammates screaming at them when they don’t follow basic instructions is enough.

Considering this game is mainly aesthetically driven, how can you expect them to not capitalize on this? That’s the whole point. If you want the best gear, you can get it. If you want to look purdy, work for it.

The achievement for doing all the dungeons will not keep people coming back, for the same reason it’s getting harder and harder to do story mode on some dungeons because you do it once, and you’re done.

Umm, why? By your current logic, every class should have it’s own burning because there’s nothing special about the guardian’s burning. I have the nagging feeling you’re a guardian and not getting in any damage ticks of burning since eles and engis can spam it so dang well lol :P

And if you’re looking for a specific timeframe for it to be released, you’re out of luck. John Smith already told us there won’t be one due to the fact it’ll “shock” the market. The fact it’s in the works is enough for me to be honest. I’d rather they do it right than rush something that blows up in everyone’s faces because they gave a timeframe.

I don’t know what your perfect match would be, but take a look at this: Dye color wheel

Of course you’ll have to go with the lighter dyes, and note that celestial is a bit left of center. I’d poke around starting with ones near it. Also remember that dyes produce different colors on different materials, so if you have multiple sets, it may be quite difficult to make them all match. Play with previewing on the TP of course. Good luck

That day/night cycling is almost unnoticeable. The only time I actually notice the change is when I’m on my sylvari and realize that it started glowing. As dark as the ice fractal may be a bit much since it really dampers visibility to where it can be annoying if your computer is in a bright room. Something extremely close to that but slightly brighter would be great.

It’s most likely done this way to encourage people to do different dungeons instead of just farming the easiest to get all your gear. The other reason everyone will point to, which is also valid, is that it promotes their sales of the fine transmutation stones.

Specific dungeons (like CoF) are already farmed due to the monetary value. If that dungeon could also provide all available stat varieties currently offered in other dungeons, we’d probably find most of the other dungeons becoming completely vacant.

Many people have moved to http://us.gw2stuff.com/ since the timers auto-update (can’t be trolled) and show the various stages of pre-events on most chains. The temple apps are accurate, it’s just that gw2stuff offers more events and more detailed info.

Plus they have the sweet overlay :P

40 minutes is definitely not the usual gap between events. Neither is 5 minutes. It’s always hovered around the 15 minute mark (+-2 mins or so) when I used to heavily farm that chain. Could be the event chain got stuck at some point on your server, so check if one of the ongoing meta events are stuck maybe? :/

@ Siigari: Changing numbers can be in error. You don’t know how it’s formatted, and they could easily have changed a number one line off and screw things up. I’ve done this numerous times myself and it’s frustrating because it takes a while to find when you’ve made hundreds of changes between your current and previous save.

Everyone and their mother is farming CoF, Fractals, and open world bosses. None of those produce anywhere close to the number of T6 mats as Orr farming does. Is this responsible for the drastic change in prices? Maybe, maybe not. Could your idea be spot on? Definitely. Without actual data it’s impossible to know for certain. Please stop stating your opinions as facts when you’re basing it on drawing speculative conclusions in regards to market behavior (just as I did with my Orr idea).

Most changes Arenanet does to the game appear to be made at the same time they release patches. You are right that it’s probably a server side thing. There’s still no reason for them to deliberately stay quiet while the forums explode in a total storm. Hence why I’m just saying to skip jumping to conclusions that it’s intentional.

Kootje.9271:

Isn’t it illumination?

I’m thinking the exact same thing. Illumination is oddly vibrant as it seems in this picture.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Changes-to-ecto-salvage-from-rares

First page of the forums, and it’s being checked by the staff. Not every potential bug is intentional as a nerf. If there was an intentional nerf on something as important as ecto salvage rates, it would be in the patch notes.

Siigari.6587:

If it’s a bug:

It was intended as a control.

If it was intentional:

It was intended as a nerf.

Either way the players lose.

Because programming errors/mistakes never occur, right? Conspiracy theorists at their best, where every mistake is 100% intentional if it hurts the players. What about the unintended dye drop rate boost a few months back? Oh wait, you’d see that as unintentional because it helped you.

Let’s leave the speculation/conspiracies behind while we wait for John to get back to us please.

They’re scattered throughout LA. If I recall it’s just a little visual easter egg a developer threw in there. It doesn’t have much of a use/purpose outside that.

No way to do it yet, but people have asked for it before. One of the biggest problems is that the telegraphed heavy damage attacks of those large bosses become impossible to see. I used to be able to put up projectile reflection/block on the Temple of Dwayna boss right before the projectile barrage, now I can barely land it half the time since I’m practically guessing the timing.

Glad I don’t go melee on those bosses :P

Fully supportive if it’s account bound. Does no harm. No way if they’re resellable. I used my Abyss when it was worth only 2 gold. If I could sell it in today’s market and use a close substitute to it instead I would for the free chunk of cash.

The only problem I see is that with gem prices at where they are now (and likely to keep slowly but steadily rising), this would have to be quite cheap to be worth the investment. I think if they were to cost in the range of some consumables (35-100 gems), it would be worthwhile for those more expensive dyes. Another idea is that since they already sell unidentified dye kits for gems, it’s unlikely that they’ll cut into potential profits there unless they’re sure people will consistently use this new feature. Food for thought :/

Also, Tonn was in no way an “innocent”. He fought the risen. That’s like saying an innocent soldier died in combat. No. It’s saddening and terrible, but he is in no way innocent. A non-combatant is an innocent.

To be honest, all of the “fears” the Pale Tree makes you pick from, this one is just written wrong imo. Its wording was making me watch for some civilian like Faren appearing from out of nowhere and getting mauled to death by a risen >.> It should’ve been worded something like “Fear of watching a comrade die” or something of the sort.

Anywho, derailed a bit, but I agree completely. Any NPC worth a spit (to me) was killed off at one point or another.

Not in the near future. As Bushido said, in the far future it’s almost certain. Although I think they’d re-skin it and give it a different animation to make it feel “new” even though it isn’t :P

Every time a new “desirable” item is released to the gemstore, gem prices rise simply due to overall demand. Even when there isn’t anything too special, I’m pretty sure that the ratio between people who buy gems with money vs. gold is tiny. Therefore, basic things like bank slots, char slots, bag slots, etc. will always be in demand and likely purchased without spending real money. Serious drops in gem prices will rarely ever occur in my opinion. I’m no economist, so what I said could be dribble-drabble but it makes sense to me…

Open world dye drops off mobs have been rather unsteady for me. Some days I’ll get 2-3, and then won’t get any for a week.

Try harvesting every plant node you come across. Even using Ori sickles in Queensdale is profitable since all you need is one dye to pay off the set, and I’m getting anywhere from 2-5 dyes per batch of 50 sickles. Sadly I’m not selling them at their expensive prices since I need them for Bifrost, but they are definitely “farmable” off of plant nodes.

https://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8961/session/L3RpbWUvMTM2OTY4NzUwOC9zaWQvOTM1UzZncmw%3D

Hopefully the link works, otherwise you can find it on the second page of the FAQs in the support section titled “Guild Wars Accounts & Their Effect on Guild Wars 2”.

There’s no mention of issues with different emails, so it should work fine if you follow that process.

Digital deluxe upgrades really aren’t worth the trouble. I’d advise one or two bank slots, maybe a bag slot or two for your main if you don’t have or plan to have a lot of alts, and save the rest for tomorrow’s update as others have said. There will probably be a bunch of new additions which you may or may not see as being worthwhile.

Portal unable to portal like that. So what, block portals in keeps? Then mesmers become useless with traditional portal-bombing.

And think about it… Why would anyone waste resources upgrading keep walls/defenses when someone or even a group can ladder in? Right now it’s PvDoor. This will simplify it even more to PvLadders.

Big Tower.5423:

Knight, Knight, just to explain somthing, wonder how op this would be together with a portal mesmer, means you can get a 20 group past a wall in 2 seconds right?

This. One sneaky mesmer ladders in, ports a zerg into the lord room. GG.

Nothanks, I like WvW as it is.

Zsymon.8457:

I do think this change is sorely needed, especially for all those newcomers who just get
rid of their elementalist, because they keep dying when trying to fight more than one
opponent. The staff can strike multiple opponents, but it doesn’t do enough damage
at all for leveling or farming.

Newcomers who ditch an elementalist because they die a lot need to learn to play the class. It is much more difficult to pick up an elementalist than it is a warrior or guardian for example.

Daggers are a close-combat high burst damage weapon. The trade-off is that you need to be face-to-face with your enemy to pull it off. It’s simply a risk-reward balance. That’s the point.

If you’re having trouble leveling, try S/D. Quite tanky and I used it myself when I hit about level 60+. Before that I ran with a staff without any problems. Staff is still decent for farming, so I don’t see the problem there. I’m guessing you’re running D/D, which is rather difficult to use properly if you just started playing the class. The skills do not really need a buff. In good hands, an elementalist is a wrecking machine.

I have a feeling they’ll do this when they allow dungeon tokens to be stored in the collectibles tab. Otherwise, I don’t see why anyone in their right mind would spend money/gems on such an expansion.

Just an animation or with an effect? Animation alone would probably be fine. It’ll amuse a zerg when they rip you to shreds, but it might convince the JP camper to let your poor soul through.

If it gives any added effects, no way. Run if you know you can get away. If you can’t, suffer the consequences.

Seems you need to find a guild that helps out newbies. Look for one. When leveling my alts I was usually below the recommended level for zones and personal story missions and did fine in blue gear at my level or two levels below at most. Even though “the ranger necro and engineer are buged as hell”, I seem to have had no trouble leveling a ranger and engineer without any monetary or other support from other characters. People’s skill levels are different. Some struggle early on, some struggle later.

Yes, henchmen would solve your problem and make content easier. The only problem is, it prevents you from being forced to learn how to use your class effectively. If a henchman plays a support role for you, it gimps you from learning your own self-support capability to it’s fullest. If the henchman plays a damage output role, you focus on supporting him and kiting/CC-ing enemies. If he plays a balanced role, you do the same, but don’t have to be paying full attention to surviving since the NPC is your fall-back. From day one, I liked how this game doesn’t hold your hand excessively since it forces people to learn.

Bugged or not, all classes can handle themselves in general PvE quite well. The moment you said that you don’t “see it surviving” in reference to the game, I just lost all interest in this topic. Developers do respond to key issues. Henchmen aren’t one of them. It’s clear you want what you want, no matter what anyone else says. In the time being since them implementing henchmen is highly unlikely, look for a PvE oriented guild on your server that’s willing to hold your hand through some of the tougher group-oriented events and general content.

CreativeAnarchy.6324:

If they make it a non-PvP zone, badges of honer need to be removed from the chest.

No PvP, no badges.

This. I’m a PvP wimp myself, but I realize that to use the JP as an easy way to get badges, the risk of someone beating the snot out of you needs to exist.

Try hitting the JP during non-peak hours. Sometimes if you run into a lone camper you might be able to get by or try joining their party as someone else suggested. I usually just do a /wave and if they return, I assume it’s safe. Never been “lied” to in that sense. Generally if it’s a large group, you’re screwed no matter what you do if you’re on your own.

Traited properly you can have 1500 range. That’s plenty. What do you mean you can’t hit anything below or in front of you? Distances in this game are calculated linearly as far as I can tell (not ground tracking), so you should be able to shoot past gaps and such without any problems as long as it’s within that 1500 range.

You already have a range advantage too since projectiles will continue to travel past that 1500 range, unlike most (all?) other classes. It may be “unrealistic” to you, but it needs to remain fair to everyone else.

I completely agree. Although I’m usually one of the last people to scream that Arenanet is purposely screwing players, soulbound on acquire is definitely one of those things that makes absolutely no sense and almost intended to screw people over. If any “binding” is to be done on acquire, it should be account-bound, not soulbound.

I understood the OP’s argument, I was just giving an explanation as to why this is happening since it seems he/she missed it. The idea that the OP claims, “They have no reason to leave the low level maps after they finish story lines other than to go to dungeons” is completely false. People only go to low level areas to hit their daily bosses and then leave since the loot is trash compared to Orr/Southsun.

Just because low level areas can drop items at your level, it doesn’t mean most will. All material bags dropped in low level zones are of low level mats. It’s a huge loss compared to farming heavy bags in Orr in the same timeframe. That’s not even considering how the occasional rare that drops might be a level 50 or something, which is worthless since it can’t be salvaged for ectos. You might as well be getting green trash drops. If people truly believe that farming low-level areas is even close to being as profitable as farming high level zones, they’re delusional.

If the daily chests and/or level-appropriate drops are removed from these low level zones, they’ll become ghost towns again and people will (again) complain about the vacancy. I think they’ve actually struck a decent balance to be honest.