Guild Wars 2

I had these on my March sales wishlist as well, and was disappointed to see they hadn’t returned in the store for one day. I had no sylvaris at the time of their original release and they weren’t really fitting with any of my chars at that time, but now I have two sylvaris who would look great with these on. Hoping they do a recap sale of all S1 LW tie-in items before S2 kicks-off, kind of as an ultimate last chance to buy some of this stuff.

Yes. The prices will go way up. As me and half my guild won’t be able to cycle these random maps on 4+ chars everyday. And judging by the dozens of players I encounter across my current harvest runs, many other players won’t. Finding the nodes after patches is time-consuming enough. I don’t imagine anyone putting the effort of scouring a map top to bottom to find these nodes on more than one char every single day. And that will be likely to hoard mats for personal use, as scarce as they will be. So I can easily see orichalcum/ancient going to T6 mat prices if this current random spawn nodes is set in motion when the megaserver expands to lvl80 zones. Hopefully they’ll think it over and find a way to make nodes static cross-dimension and reset of a specified timer, like change on dailies reset or something, instead of when you leave and enter a map. My advice, hoard it while you still can.

I didn’t know DR applied to loot of any particular mobs. I’ve only seen it affect event rewards consisting of XP, karma and gold, not the loot dropped during said events.

Lankybrit.4598:

Naz.2607:

FrozenStarRo.7240:

How would harvest nodes be affected by this change? Because I’ve still got lots of deldrimors to make and piles of iron and platinum to collect. I don’t mind going to a map to find the nodes once, but I’d hate to come back with another character 30 seconds later to find I’m in an entirely different instance of the same map.

^^ This is huge for me

Why’s this an issue?

Aren’t node maps the same on all servers?

And, if you come back after 30 seconds on a different character, couldn’t the only outcome possibly be positive, having mode nodes not gathered (if on a different map). There couldn’t possibly be less, just the same, or more.

It’s not the same. If you find the nodes once you can make your own more efficient route the 2nd time there than it would take you to rediscover all nodes location. Orr is the best example I can give you. Currently we rely on gw2nodes to get our daily orichalcum/ancients. The maps are quite large and finding nodes after resets or patch days always takes me 45-60min on average to track down and update locations to gw2nodes. And I harvest on more than one character. I don’t have the luxury of wandering about 4h a day, 1h a char, but once I know a route I can efficiently run all 4 in a little over 1h. Now imagine “megaserver” putting me in an entirely different Orr, with an entirely different layout for harvest nodes, when I log a character, just seconds after logging off the char I just used to track the nodes. It’s beyond frustrating.

Unless they can find a way to make harvest nodes more static across these different instances/dimensions, it’s going to bother to a lot of people who prefer gathering theirs mats instead of buying. The nodes already change at an alarming rate, see https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/What-is-going-on-with-Harvesting-Nodes

How would harvest nodes be affected by this change? Because I’ve still got lots of deldrimors to make and piles of iron and platinum to collect. I don’t mind going to a map to find the nodes once, but I’d hate to come back with another character 30 seconds later to find I’m in an entirely different instance of the same map.

Alex.9268:

If legendaries were not boe then how would Anet make money?

That’s only if you have a flawed view that everyone got theirs from buying gems and trading to gold, which is false. I have yet to meet someone who didn’t craft theirs. They’d stand to gain as most mats would still be tradeable and they’d keep their players in-game far more to complete their dungeon set for the gift, work on their 100% map exploration, rank 14 in WvW, not just handing out the cash or thousands gold for someone else to slave away to craft it for them.

John Smith.4610:

The mystic forge changes are a work in progress. What I will promise is that when it is done you will like it much better than you do now.

I hope part of it involves the ability to throw superior runes and sigils to forge other superior runes and sigils we might find more useful. If it works for gear, why not these? Please make it happen!

I agree it’s too early to rush to support for refunds. I’m sure come patch day April 15 they will address all of these concerns, like they have with the changed Flamekissed Armor. For now just wait and see

There’s one in Obsidian Sanctum. A bit tedious to get to however. I mined it last night and all I got was 1 charge, with 7 ores total. It’s unlike the other rich mines.

Precursor crafting got delayed (again), so you should probably save up for the pre you need. I bought mine on the TP after 3 months of saving towards it, it can be done a lot faster depending on cost of pre and if you can refrain from spending. The latter didn’t work for me, as I was spending g along the way to gear alts, even bought T3 cultural. You can also try a risk-free method of gambling by burning through your T5 mats stockpile and crafting rare staves to throw in MF. Plenty of mithrill and elder wood around the 65-80 maps, and it rains T5 mats more then T6 from mobs drop. All you need is 350 in Artificer I think. And as someone else suggested, you can also do dungeons, save the 1.5g per run for buying pre but use the tokens on gear to throw in the forge. One way or another you’ll have your pre

I’d like the idea of buying individual pieces simply because I like to mix & match different armor sets for a more unique look, but this practice has left me with a bank tab full of unused armor parts skins. And much like Lambent said, maybe we’d like a certain armor piece on more than 1 char. I’d love to outfit all my 3 medium with Krytan chest, for instance, but I will not buy 2 more sets knowing I’d have 10 more bank spaces clogged up by the remaining unused 5 armor parts skins. There was talk of a wardrobe that may allow storage of such skins that might make the system more bearable, but the option to just buy individual pieces would work too.

Maybe a trading system could be created via the Black Lion Specialists? Just tossing an idea out there, but it would be nice if we could exchange such discontinued items like Instant Trait Reset (6 in bank) or Glory Boosters (10+) on a case by case basis. Like I could use some karma boosters than can no longer be acquired. Maybe use this as an opportunity to reintroduce them?! Other may be in immediate need of XP boosters to level alts or MF boosters if they’re running events. You’re already working on a vendor that will take our leftover tokens and currencies from the s1 LS releases that are useless now, this is no different.

Dulfy would you happen to know what dyes make up the 25 colors pool for this Survivor Dye Kit?

kitten ThoseNames.8791:

FrozenStarRo.7240:

The majority of The Never Ending [NE] have moved from Ruins of Surmia and we’re rebuilding now on Gandara. A handful of [NE] are still on RoS under new leadership.

Hope u didn’t bring many ppl to gandara….. we are so full that anet reserved a server just for us -_-.
Thank you for the heads up…. ohw wait…

We are mainly PvErs. We have no intention of disrupting your WvW season or clogging up your Mists queues. But as our new home, we are of course rooting for Gandara to win. I merely posted here in the WvW forum because this is the only thread keeping track of the current server shuffling with the free transfers.

The majority of The Never Ending [NE] have moved from Ruins of Surmia and we’re rebuilding now on Gandara. A handful of [NE] are still on RoS under new leadership.

If they added anything other than cosmetic fluff and convenience items, everyone would cry “pay-to-win”. Apart from the bad nature of locking skins behind the RNG of BL chests, which I wouldn’t mind so much if it were a guaranteed scrap per chest (it still costs 900 gems to buy 10 keys after all, at +33% over the weapon skins they’ve been selling for 600 gems a piece, mind you), the gemstore is quite ideal for an MMO. It doesn’t give any unfair advantage to anyone or drive its community apart. Even more so, it gives players the option to convert currency, rather than locking everything behind a credit card like most games’ item stores do. So yeah, minus BL chests, the gemstore functions on a great system.

And you still get plenty of cool rewards in-game,just look at the wide variety of back skins we got so far. Zephyr rucksack, the red and yellow flowers, the Catchers, dragon wings! There has been several headwear pieces along too, like the Monocle, Gas Mask, Scarlet’s most recently. Some pauldrons around the time I wasn’t playing, with the chicken skulls. I do admit it would be nice if for once, instead of bits and pieces, they would do a full set for S2 of Living Story that they could spread out over multiple releases as meta-rewards perhaps.

Scarlet pauldrons and gloves from gemstore, skirt and boots from Viper’s medium set from gemstore, Honor of the Waves dungeon chest.

Hadn’t seen this pic and armor mix&match before, I think I might try it on my thief. So thanks for the post OP

Reverence.6915:

If they’re transferring out, it’s because they haven’t found a home in your server. There’s very little reason to transfer to another server for PVE reasons so your WvW community either didn’t fit them or wasn’t there in the first place

Wrong. A lot of PvE roamers are hoping servers as well to the high pop ones to get stuff done. A lot of the smaller servers can’t do the zerg-fest Living World releases done due to lack of manpower. A bunch of servers don’t even do your daily world bosses and metas. Can’t remember the last time there was an interest in doing the Tamin chain in Harathi or Ogre Wars on my home server, Ruins of Surmia. Apart from Dwayna being occasionally open, Orr seems forever contested. We already lost several guilds due to free transfers. One of which a sizeable WvW one. Went to WvW last night, there wasn’t even a queue on a Friday. We couldn’t even hold our own Borderlands as we were severely outnumbered! It costs 800gems to us, no one is coming here. Not with free transfers to Gandara, Blacktide and Underworld. Can’t blame them either. At this point Vabbi is doing better, while they are currently known as the smallest server in EU. Quite curious how server population is counted by Anet, cause as the listings stand I’m pretty sure it’s counting a lot of the inactive playerbase, ones that chose a server when buying the game and haven’t played for ages.

RoS lost guilds in the process of free transfers, gained none. Evidenced by Blacktide dominating us at the moment. Free transfers to RoS come WvW S3?! cause it’s not looking good.

My shiny is Kudzu.

Took a long time and quite a lot of effort. It took 4 months, started really saving towards it in Nov. and finally finished it a few weeks ago. Did daily Orr harvest route on 3 chars to save the gold for pre. Leaf of Kudzu cost 560g when I bought it. I bought most of the T6 mats required but I’m blessed to have awesome guildies who helped me along by chipping in whenever they got any as drops. Bought rares for dungeon tokens to salvage for the ectos. Karma for obsidian shards was the hardest thing to get on the last leg of it. I don’t do a lot of events, only started playing in August, about a week or two before the karma nerf and most of the karma I had amassed by Nov was spent on all rare/exo recipes for all crafting professions. Luckily the guild helped me once again, taking me to low level fractals for a couple of days so I could buy shards for relics.

Now I’m working on my 2nd, The Predator, but taking it slow and waiting for mats and karma to pile up again.

Either you or them still have the option of guesting on a daily basis so you can play together. Once activated, a guest pass lasts for 24h. You can literally play all day long together even while on different servers.
You may only have a problem with Living World stuff, as guesters in Overflow are locked out of main maps by a cleverly veiled error message, but you should all be ok if you stay in overflow. Been in many over the past LS and despite what some may tell you, you can get a lot of successful runs even in overflow.

Staff necro with all the minions. Really, nothing can touch you. You can solo champs.

Ranger. With tanky pets and all spirits available for summon in your utility slots. You can solo champs.

But once you get either of those to 80 I highly recommend you tackle the squishier classes too as a learning experience. Thief or ele.

Somehow “Removing Restrictions” may be related to DR. Considering it hits hard even while doing the most recent of LS, because they’re all a sequence of events, it only makes sense they’d tweak or remove it entirely.

You’ll be fighting lots of enemies through map completion. Hearts often have a combat solution, most events require kills and you’ll find plenty of tougher foes such as vets and smaller mobs guarding vistas, skill points and points of interest.
Do story as you reach the required level, they get increasingly hard past the level 30 mark if you’re really looking for a challenge.

If it gets implemented I’d hope they’ll be reasonable enough to take the character with most dyes on an account and unlock across alts, instead of wiping clean a dye panel most of us spent a lot of G on.

Keep dyes unidentified but generate a new, previously unlocked color when the gemstore item is used. Don’t give out copies. We don’t want a rehash of the LW tie-in dye packs giving us the same crappy blue rarity mundane color we unlocked ages ago instead of the new tones.

Make crafted dyes unlockable on the whim, without a dye processor thing. It would be a method to acquire them in-game without spending money, but it will take a while considering mats. This would also be beneficial to stabilize the market and make cooking mats a bit more valuable.

KevinB.9643:

I heard that Arena net is adding new ways to obtain a precursor weapon, hopefully by crafting. It would really help the players with bad luck (such as myself) to obtain a legendary weapon at the end.

But to craft a precursor to begin with, players should be putting effort many different aspects of the game such as: dungeons, wvw, pve, world events and crafting (obviously).

I do hope to obtain a legendary weapon once, mainly by participating in the aspects I just named.

Precursor crafting unfortunately won’t happen anytime soon. There’s official data, dev response from last night https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/gw2-precursor-recipe-scavanger-hunt-news/first#post3780700

They should be sellable. At least to vendors for a small sum or such. Or tradeable. I guess they fear it would diminish the value of ascended gear, but let’s be honest, the market may end up overflowed with dragonite, empyreal fragments of bloodstone, but the core components like deldrimor or damask will not.

I agree. The giggles, cheers and toasting felt awkward considering the aftermath. Yes, Scarlet is gone but I can’t turn a blind eye to all that we lost in the war against her. Any celebration was overshadowed by LA in shambles and let’s not forget the sight of a now half-tarnished, but previously beautiful leveling zone, Kessex Hills.

Awesome. So another tiny patch incoming that will reset the bloody nodes.

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/eu/wvw

Deso is in the top tier and costs 2400 gems.

The free ones are ranked between 15-17 and 23-27

Did you preview the hair with armor on while using the kit or did you toggle it off? Sometimes you’ll have to compromise on shorter hair if you have giant mantle/shoulders and clipping is very off-putting for you. That or toggle off equipped shoulder armor visibility and if most cases it works. Some of the very long hairs clip awkwardly with backpieces though.

I don’t check or post here for Anet to see, at least not outside the Bugs and Support section. It’s mostly to see what the state of the playerbase is an reception to various things in game, as I don’t socialize much in-game outside the guild. My chat tab is even set to only guild, party and whispers in-game.

No one does Tequatl on my server. Not since Sept. 2013. Nor has anyone bothered with tri-wurm since the first week of its LS. We kind of all accepted defeat on that front. The more bosses made in that matter the less content there is for smaller servers. And if we guest to give it a go, we won’t hear the end of it from high-pop servers wailing about overflows. If anything they should be tuned down a bit so smaller servers can make an effort with what they have. Take Marionette, that had successful runs on my server. It takes about 75 players spread as 15 across lanes and some platform boss strategy but nothing too difficult or that can’t be picked up on easily then and there. It gives a slight margin of error if 2 lanes fail timer is forgiving enough to allow others to complete the wardens. Such an event is a compromise I could live with.

Now OT, Behe needs some tuning, but that’s more of a scaling concern. He’s being downed in 2 min after spawn, sometimes less. Makes it difficult to catch it in time unless you’re camping before pre-events kick off. There’s always a huge group there, consisting of zone lowbies, Queensdale train and 80s coming for their daily world boss reward. SB just needs to be scaled accordingly. I wouldn’t mind if they did the 15 portals like the Chinese version when he’s at half HP or something along those lines. Or scale similar to Maw, small group downs him fast, large zerg takes 10min to because his HP and toughness can scale up that high. But definitely not make it overly complicated requiring too much strategy and manpower as you suggested, it’s a starting zone boss, a handful of lvl10-15 players in blues should be able to down it too.

Still confused as how the chinese system works. So they have unidentified dyes and buy the whatever unlocker thingy and get a dye. Does it only render dyes that haven’t previously been unlocked, if the system is for account-bound dyes? Or does it have a chance for both new and unlocked dyes? If so can doubles be traded in or sold?

Cause the only way I can imagine such a system work is if it has a guaranteed chance for a new dye, with dyes no longer tradeable. Otherwise it feels like something easily manipulated towards p2w, put some cash in unlockers then sell dyes on TP at insane prices. We’re already seeing this with the LW tie-in dyes. cough Glacial Sky for 300g cough

Kodans. Big adorable bears. The elite norn bear form is not enough. Perma-polar bear form is a must!

We’ll ship LA’s refugees to new homes!

http://artbytheo.deviantart.com/art/GuildWars-2-Refugees-438744944?hf=1

But in all seriousness, it’s concept art, so take it with a grain of salt.

I could see this work, something a la Hearthfire for Skyrim. You get the space to build on with some options to what goes here or there, but still within parameters of several possible layouts. That way it’s similar for many but still individual based on choice of decor.

Hamfast.8719:

bullyrook.2165:

She’s a necro, not a thief.

Is she? Never really seen her in “action”. Was going by her daggers (yes, I know Necro uses daggers too), and her armor looks like a Medium set (all trench-coaty).

But Necro is even further evidence she could easily be the one to turn evil (if one of them did).

Have we been playing the same game?? She uses axe for main and dagger as off-hand, which is also supported by the fact they released Marjory’s Axe and Dagger skins during the Tower LS. In the tower cleanse instance players fight with her and Kasmeer against the Toxic Alliance and the combat skills and animations are those that playable necros use. She wears Trickster armor, which looks more like medium, I’ll give you that, but has been a Light armor in the gemstore for months. She’s not making a million minions to be easily spot as one, but she’s a necro.

OT: Not sure I’d see anyone in this line-up go bad, although Taimi is still fresh to know that well. I’d see Zojja go bad easily, she’s a mean little asura.

A fix to the 3-month long issue of harvest bonuses.

It all depends on what dailies happen to be bundled up on any given day. I start my day with Orr harvest route so some like Condition Remover, Condition Applier, Daily kills, Gatherer and even Crafter when I take to refining, all make for an easy daily. On other days with more specific dailies like Maguuman Events or Kills I have to take the extra time to complete them. Still not bad as in my case I either take a lower level to run the extra dailies for the xp or run a char that’s not fully explored to start on a new map in the designed zone, it all works to my benefit, so I never feel like it’s time-consuming or a chore.

I used to be one of those that frowned upon this practice when I first heard of it. Then came a time I really liked a weapon skin and shelled out money for a stack of keys only to get 4 scraps I couldn’t exchange and an abundance of items I have no use of like Glory Boosters, Crafting Boosters or my absolute favorite, the useless Killstreak Booster. And that was back in the day when the ever common scrolls of knowledge and essences of luck weren’t in the loot table.

I simply cannot justify the cost of 35euro worth of gems for 4 scraps. At that rate a skin would round up to 100euro and that’s absurd. So I’d much rather casually run a disposable character now every other day for a month and get the 1 in 5-7 lucky chest that yields a scrap. That way I can always keep a claim ticket in bank in anticipation of new skins and have fun and enjoy the game in the process. I don’t farm to sell skins, it’s solely to keep all my characters geared to my liking.

I support the game, I’ve spent hundreds of euro on the gemstore to this day, but I refuse to pay for items that have a big chance of resulting in something of no value. I’d much rather they handled more weapon skins like the Kasmeer Staff, Marjory Dagger & Axe, for sale directly in gem store, or as others suggested, with a way to purchase tickets directly OR make the scraps a guaranteed drop in every chest so they’re worth buying.

I make 12g a day running my 80s through Orr following the harvest routes on gw2nodes. It’s not exactly a fortune but it adds up over time as I have fully geared characters, all crafts maxed and no immediate need to spend any of that gold at the moment. At the end of the month I tend to clear my stacks of cooking mats except those I need (omnom, truffles, etc) and lower orbs and that’s an easy 50g+.

Doing that for the past 4 months has allowed me to finish my first legendary (buying a 560g precursor on TP and complete my stacks of T6 mats) and buy several sets of T3 cultural armor.

I saw your reply to someone and I honestly wouldn’t advise hoarding mats unless you’re actively learning a specific craft. Otherwise just dump all those you don’t need (keep cores, lodestones and T6 mats so you have 1 less worry if you eventually decide to craft a legendary). You could be sitting on hundreds of gold in your collectibles right now.

5 80s for me, but have a char for each class + a free slot

human warrior
norn ranger
sylvari ele
human necro
human thief

Still to level human mesmer, norn guard, asura engi.

Better odds of finding Balt open on weekends. It was open on 3 servers on Sunday in EU.

If you’re in a hurry see if you can’t organize your guild to start the pres. Word will spread and other players will join along the way.

Since the rest of the folks pretty much covered most on the other questions, I’ll just address these 2.

ufodisko.6823:

I also have a lot of heavy armor that I cannot wear and I can’t sell either, tried on the Trading Post, didn’t let me sell them. What can I do with them?

You should be able to sell. Just make sure you use the correct boxes when listing the items. For some rarer items you may not currently have the cash to cover the listing fee. There is also the option to salvage the items for essences of luck (which over time will increase your odds of getting better drops) and composing materials which you can sell and turn a profit as well. You can also sell to vendors, but generally the trading post offers a higher value. The way I do it is sell trophy items to vendor, any useable gear on the trading post or salvage and sell the mats.

ufodisko.6823:

What do I do with all these crafting materials? I know I will be able to craft once I’m level 11 but for now what do I do with all these items? Will I need them all when I hit lvl 11?

You don’t need all the crafting materials that you find. Save only those for professions you intend to learn on your character. The game is designed to allow the possibility of learning all on one character, with just 2 being active at any given time, but I always found it better to learn just 2 that suited a class best, while still having the option of learning the rest on classes that could benefit from them, such as tailor on a light armor wearing class. Your ranger is best suited learning Hunstman, which crafts bows, horns, torches that a ranger can use, and Leatherwork for creating medium armor. For these you need wood, metal, leather and some cloth. You could make some money selling food mats or gem orbs until the time comes you decide you’d like to learn the Chef or Jeweler crafts too. I’m commonly clearing my bank of cooking mats. Just last weekend I made 60g selling stacks of ingredients while keeping only those needed in recipes I make.

I’ve had friends and guildies help with Personal Story while I was leveling fresh alts and they brought 80s to help with the tougher ones like Claw Island.

When your son opts to start his Personal Story you have to be on the same map and world in order to get invited along. So if his next quest starts in Divinity Reach, you need to be somewhere/anywhere in Divinity Reach for the invite. You’ll get a pop-up which gives you about 10 seconds to click to accept to go in with him, otherwise the timer runs out and your son will be ported to the instance alone. If he’s in DR and you’re on a different map, say Queensdale, there’s no pop-up nor timer, he’ll just instantly start alone.

If the above still doesn’t work there may be the possibility this quest in particular needs to be soloed, I haven’t done Faren/noble story since August so a little foggy on how it’s designed. Maybe he can finish it alone and see if you can team up for the rest?!

The Crossing. The dangling lantern is just so pretty.
Final Rest is also a nice (and much cheaper) staff that looks good on necros. But a common find among necro players, so if you want to stand out, you should aim for The Crossing.

Might work for a staff for a water attuned ele to heal

Copying my post from another thread last night:

FrozenStarRo.7240:

The TP ate some of my gold today aswell!
I sold 85 ori ingots and 45 ancient planks today, which net me over 10g a day. All I had for pick-up tonight was 4g and some silver, which I imagined covered the planks. But I checked my “Items I’m selling” tab and the oris were gone, while I never saw the earnings for the sale.
Might be a glitch in the system, I’ll check again tomorrow, but if more people are experiencing the same issue there really might be something here for Anet to look into.

I had no gold waiting for me today either, but I took the risk of selling the oris and ancients collected this morning and got the 12g equivalent of the sale.

Not sure what could cause it, but it seems to come and go. Either the items listed vanish into thin air or the money isn’t reaching us for some of the sales, I don’t know.

The TP ate some of my gold today aswell!
I sold 85 ori ingots and 45 ancient planks today, which net me over 10g a day. All I had for pick-up tonight was 4g and some silver, which I imagined covered the planks. But I checked my “Items I’m selling” tab and the oris were gone, while I never saw the earnings for the sale.
Might be a glitch in the system, I’ll check again tomorrow, but if more people are experiencing the same issue there really might be something here for Anet to look into.