Guild Wars 2

ANet might keep it up, but that will only hurt them in the long run. One it shows poor customer service by not listening to their customers, and will eventually lead to a loss in sales.

I would use this, I just started my second engineer because I love the class, hate my race.

Instead of resetting the story as it would be easier to complete with new found levels and gear, only make it available if you have finished your story.

With increased radius on explosions its helpful for melee and those at the very close end to mid range(depending on the bomb) but the healing it does unless it has changed is not really worth 30 points imo.

Those who have spent more than $50 in Holiday boxes without getting all 3 Mini’s, with enough to create the Quaggan as well, that is more than what it cost for the Halloween one, and I think it would make everyone who spent larger amounts of money on the game in attempts to complete their collections, and with this add the Mini Trio.

Aelial.6314:

Are we sure that sigil of strength stacks with sigil of earth? I.e. they do not reduce their proc chance, like sigil of rage + sigil of earth?

Does this hold true for Earth and Ice?

In the past 2 weeks I have done around 500 combines in the MF, and found its about a 20% chance for an upgrade. Its very streaky though, I can do 50 items with a single update then the next 50 I will get 19 upgrades.

I earned it doing zone completion in a couple places.

The safest way it to make 80 then finish a crafting profession from 1-400 should get you most of the way there.

I am currently doing this, its quite difficult starting at level 2. When I reached 5 and was able to get a speed boost(Engineer so no weapon skills for it) it got easier.

The trick is to find often and quick flips, if its a stand still battle just pushing back and forth without many deaths you will not get far.

This is what I would like to see added, it would be a Gem shop item, and it would turn an item that is Soulbound to Account bound.

Crafted a Ascended Piece for a character and want to change mains, you could do this instead of making a new one. Personally I would use them.

Engineers dont have a speed boost unless traited for using multiple skills in a row, surely not a passive one like that.

Would also like to see this, I mean you can already right click on any linked armor to preview it, just need the same action off TP

Erasculio.2914:

Could ArenaNet please ban everyone who makes a topic like this? We get one per week, if half of them were true no exotics would ever drop ectos anymore.

Yes because banning people for asking questions seems like a good idea………….

They would not be the first game to make changes, and it would be easy to remove the excess Ectos created from the Snowflake jewelry error by lowering the salvage rate. When I went from an average of 10 ectos for every 6 rares/exotics to a 1:1 or 0:1 I thought it was worth asking.

It seems its just my bad luck.

I will still buy them if they make a set, and to be honest I will gamble if they dont add one, I am a collector by nature and cant help it, but it makes me mad that a better option was not done.

I used 2 festive golems and a infiniarium, got them in the first 20 chests along with 50 stuffing for the quaggan.

Opened 80 chests since then and a infiniarium since. highly disappointed.

What are you using for Runes on your armor?

I am going to agree on everyone one of these threads as someone who has opened 100 boxes for 4 minis and still dont have them all.

I have shelled that out so far, only to watch people with better luck get more minis with fewer boxes.

A trio needs to be added simple as that. Its not in good tastes to not allow collectors to buy, collectibles either from other players or from the Gem Shop.

This is the first time I have lost faith in ANet and honestly if they dont find a better option to provide them(extra Cogs) it would push me a little further from this game, everything else I could roll with, but when I open 100 Boxes and get 4 minis and never the Snowman, and to watch a guild member get 3 of each type in 30 boxes.

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

Hi everyone,

The statistics reported on the wiki pages for the Wintersday Mystery Box drop rates are incorrect, due to the method being used for calculating them. Some of our item packages use more than one loot table to determine what you get from opening them. Whenever you open a Wintersday Mystery Box, it randomly drops items selected from 2 tables, each having specific items and their own drop rates.

We’ve seen people mention the low drop rates of Foostivoo from Wintersday Mystery Box and would like to remind people that the primary way to obtain this miniature is from the Mystic Forge, by combining other minis (wiki link).

Thank you.

Well it cant be far off, I am at 90 boxes opened, yet to get the snowman, only gotten 2 of each of the other minis.

So I am currently using a build of 0/30/0/30/10, I am hoping someone who has tested it can help me out. Dual Pistol with FT and Elixir Gun.

Runes – Burn Duration, Condition Duration, Boon Duration, plus the other several that are good for Engineers.

Sigils – Earth, Ice, Flame? Power on kills, Cond Damage on Kills?

Runes I was thinking increased Condition Duration, it would effect almost every ability I have, but Boon Duration would be nice for stacks of Might. Sigils I was thinking of Earth for more Bleeds and Ice for the chill.

Thanks all!

I like to gamble with Runes in the Mystic Forge, as I salvage every piece of gear I get, but had this happen for the first time to me that I can recall.
I placed 4 not account bound Runes into the Forge, and got a Major Rune of the Monk back. Well first I was happy it was an upgrade but realized its Account bound. So all I ask is this
Remove Account Bound status items from the Mystic Forge loot table on Runes, unless an account bound item is placed into it.

I have been enjoying this a ton since I changed to

0/30/0/30/10 and using Flame Thrower, my next biggest question is Runes and Stats, it seems that Power/Prec/Toughness might be the best choice? Dual weild with Earth and ?

Anyone else noticed this or am I just having a run of bad luck. Since the patch that fixed the endless ecto glitch, I have not recieved more than 1 ecto from a salvage regardless of weapon/armor level or the kit that I use from Black Lion to Mystic.

I either have bad luck or feel there was a back end patch to help remove the excess created from the game.

All I have to say is Thank goodness, I have been dropped from more Fractals than I can count due to random boots from the game, and hated not being able to rejoin, the sooner this is in the better.

I like to gamble with Runes in the Mystic Forge, as I salvage every piece of gear I get, but had this happen for the first time to me that I can recall.

I placed 4 not account bound Runes into the Forge, and got a Major Rune of the Monk back. Well first I was happy it was an upgrade but realized its Account bound. So all I ask is this

Remove Account Bound status items from the Mystic Forge loot table on Runes, unless an account bound item is placed into it.

Gaile Gray.6028:

CptSlater.2457:

Official answer from Support:

“If you’ve found any Legendary items for sale on the Trading Post, this is not
functioning as designed and should not be possible. We would need more information
on what you saw, as well as screenshots to investigate this issue further.”

So it’s a bug or some error in Trading Post.

Hey, guys,

You need to know: Legendaries are not soul-bound until equipped. So they can, legitimately, be sold on the TP. Once equipped, however, they become soul-bound.

I’m sorry that someone got an incorrect answer from Support about this issue. We have identified the ticket and we will begin the beati…. I mean “gently correct the agent who gave the misinformation.”

Good to see an answer, and I personally dont care if people are able to sell them, the issue is why are the ingredients account and even character bound, and yet you can sell the final product?

Please free up all the items so people can buy and even change with other characters on their own accounts.

I use Carrion Exotic Gear its Power Vit Con Damage, and then use Coral Jewerly for Power Prec and Con Damage.

I still have a 50%ish crit rate that I could raise with sigils or runes(currently earth, corruption, undead) but proc things all the time.

The power helps when I switch to kits that have a higher coefficent for power than con damage but gives me the best of both.

Doggie.3184:

Will we get more Gears, or at least More 250 stacks of stuffing/glue? ;s

Highly doubt it, ANet said in a post somewhere this would be limited, Gears that is, they have to encourage the Gem Shop somehow.

I think we can increase the community feel by doing these two things.

First a LFG Tool

Second all Waypoints to dungeons are free from LA. Not the WP right outside the dungeon by the first one in each dungeon. There is one at the beginning of every dungeon before spawns.

To prevent free travel around the world, you leave the dungeon to the same place you entered. So if you port from LA, when you leave you go back to LA, if you enter from the outside world, when you leave you go back to the outside world.

The LFG Tool would cut down on spam, and the free travel would allow people to relax in LA and chat about other things while waiting on a group.

Thoughts?

Currently Running Sigil of Earth, Sigil of Corruption for P/P Elixir Gun build, 10/30/0/30/0
Also running full set of Runes of the Undead, they balance out my Carrion Armor nicely for both Vit and Toughness.

I am curious though if giving up the toughness for Bleed Duration/Condition Duration Runes, along with Power Sigil would be better DPS for the build.

How is this thread still active?

I have tried every other class, I have yet to get one past 20 since release, because I love my Engineer despite his flaws to much.

Actually I am tired of being a Sylvari engineer, and thinking of rerollng a new one of undecided race.

No one would play the Heavy Gunner, how would you ever catch someone in PVP?

Since the Karka event, I have logged around 100 hours of playtime, all of this has been spent in FotM, Dungeons, Claw of Jormag, or straight of Farming.

Exotics to date – 1, last night in the Tixx chest, previous exotic was Karka Chest
Rares to date – 8 roughly all have been from non boss types in FotM, none from Chests
Greens and Blues – Alot at a steady rate, but they are nothing more than salvage fodder with hopes of a decent sigil or rune, that or luck in MF combining them.

My biggest gripe is chests and RNG, as example a Guild member and I ran the Halloween dungeon together 20+ times, I got 1 exotic out of it, he got 6, along with dye kits, rares, etc. I got the 1 exotic, blues and greens.

To everyone saying you cant just ignore the Spawns behind you.

You are correct – However you dont have to stand back to farm them, thats not what the event was designed for, and what caused this change.

Second and more importantly the drops from the chest are horrible, I ran Claw of Jormag 4 times in 1 day, I got some where along the lines of 10 Blues, 6 Greens, 6 Crests, and a Gem or two(count is not exact but close), yes I saw others link Rares, Exotics, Lodestones. When I would help kill the spawns, as you should do between attacking the Ice Wall, I picked up 15ish T6 Claws, 20+ T5 Claws, and about 6 Blues and Greens. The effort to kill them was by far less which does not make logical sense, since ANet is all about Risk vs Reward, there was no risk in this yet I got equal gear.

No one is having issues with conversions, and maybe in the 6 months I have been playing I have never noticed the size right at the beginning. If you are referring to the size on Loader, that does not represent the size of the entire patch(as in it runs through 1 small download then usually less than 10mb, then starts the update) because I have had several that only download a few MBs and it will be a 200mb patch.

Regardless of all of this, they could put 44 files / 200MB remaining, it doesnt hurt anyone

I always seem to get dropped in the 3rd fractal, has happned to me well over a dozen times, and I only loose connection to the game not Teamspeak or anything else. If I try and go back in, whole party comes out…….just annoying at this point.

EnemyCrusher.7324:

Gaile Gray.6028:

You need to know: Legendaries are not soul-bound until equipped. So they can, legitimately, be sold on the TP. Once equipped, however, they become soul-bound.

This is terrible! Legendary weapons are supposed to show that players have mastered various aspects of the game.

Currently the only real aspect it shows you mastered is Time and RNG. I hate saying that I really do but, all ingredients can be collected with enough time/money and the other half are made through RNG.

Cant wait for the scavenger hunt version.

So what is your normal rotation Shivenis, out of curiosity.

Kaimick.5109:

Putting MB or KB or GB on it wont change how fast you download them. 1024 KB = 1 MB I believe and the same goes on for MB to GB.

I don’t mean to troll you just saying the size of the file will be the same regardless of how it is presented, the rate you download will be the same regardless of how it is presented. If you download at 1 mb per a second then your downloading 1024 kb a second.

Although I agree with you on displaying path notes would be nice.

Not sure if trolling for real…….

If you know the size, and your download rate you can guestimate a time it will take to download. Patch is 100mb, you download at 1mb/s you know in 1.5 minutes roughly you would be done.

Currently being in number of files you have no idea how long it will take.

I agree with OP, change it to a size.

greendisease.5490:

Maybe they should just bring back player to player trading? Like in GW1. The mailing system obviously wouldn’t work for that because you could send someone your item and never get one back. Muwhaha.

You could make it work, just make the mail a trade screen. You click a button that says this mail is a trade, place your item in, mail to recipient, they put their item in, mails back to you, you accept and transaction complete.

Sure its a lot of steps and mail but it would be safe, trackable, and allow player to player trading.

I have an exotic MF set, I loose Vit from my other exotic set. So how am I slowing down the kills? I am ranged and can avoid damage usually being the last to die in a guild run, and almost always last to die in a Pug unless I do something stupid.

I get 10-15 hours at best a week to play. I want a legendary weapon like everyone else, why should I not maximize my time to work towards my goals?

Could I talk you into elaborating on your link, like I said stuck at work and cant view it, will when I get home but hoping to hop right in and make some changes.

I have been playing since beta, and just a few thoughts on what might improve player experiences.

1. Allow background downloading of patches – You pop up a message that says 3 hours till new release, build something in like many other games to allow that to start downloading while I play till servers go down. It doesn’t have to be just when the message goes up but as soon as the patch is available.

1. A dungeon finder so people dont have to go from LA to the dungeon zone and back trying to find members

1. To go with #2, I would not mind seeing free waypoints from Lions Arch only to dungeons. To prevent free map travel to other places it simply works like this. Enter dungeon from outside, when you finish you appear outside, if you enter from LA when you leave you reappear in LA, regardless if you finished the dungeon or not. My hopes would be more people in LA talking, sharing stories, and with #2 there would be no need to spam chat with LFG messages.

1. Fixing FotM dungeon d/c and having to start over, its been over a month, its time to fix this.

1. Lowering Gem Store prices, dont get me wrong I have spent around $80 on gems since launch, roughly what I would be paying for $15 a month. I think you would see more people buying if they could get more than 1-2 items for $10. Buying 10 keys BL chests which may give you nothing worthwhile for $10 alot for some people. Reducing the cost might net overall higher profits due to increase number of people buying.

1. Improved search filters for the BLTP

Just the thoughts I can remember right now, thanks for reading!

I got an exotic from Tixx, its the first Exotic or Rare from 100+ chests since the Karka event for me.

Ran Claw of Jormag 4 times in one day, got 4 Greens and like 10 Blues along with useless crests.

Last time I got an exotic out of an explorable dungeon run save Tixx, been 2+ months

However got 2 rares from spawns in Tier 6 FotM Dredge but not the chest or even a boss for that matter.

I have not had a chance to try, but can you get the frames on another character to create tonics/mini pets or are the Cogs/Frames limited to 1 per account?

I am running full Condition damage currently, the upfront damage isnt the greatest but if I can both #4s going, they tick for around 800 each, and things HP does start to melt.

Thats now the reason I am considering Flamethrower for primary weapon for a more constant burn without relying on 10 in explosives.

Stuck at work, most sites blocked, for some reason this is not so I thought I would ask.

Currently running 10/30/0/30/0 build with P/P elixir gun combo. P/P #3, #2, #4 Elixir Gun #2, #1/3 as running in, #4 back out and repeat. Usually #1 of both P/P and Elixir Gun go off enough times to keep 3-4 stacks of bleed and a couple of weakness running.

I have bit a bored of the playstyle lately and tried other classes but I miss my Engineer and another class never lasts long.

So I thought a new build might help, and since I am stuck at work thought I would collect opinions on everything from the build to armor and sigils.

Thanks!

So does this still hold true with the last update that lowered the healing from Super Elixir?

Does anyone run a 10/30/0/20/10 or 10/20/0/30/10 build? If so what do you choose to give up for the burn or kit refinement

Also what do you use for AoE, assuming your build does not use staves. Its the one thing I have had the most trouble giving up my engineer for, its so easy to tag everything.

Are they viable? I played a Ranger through beta and always liked the idea of one and never got around to it, I have a lower level ranger I am considering leveling up and was curious if Spirit builds work for PvE and dungeons.

Reasons why or why not would be great along with builds, weapons choices etc.

Thanks