Guild Wars 2

Apologies for the thread necro but I’m also having issues with the WvW JP. A guildie kindly offered to show me the home Borderlands JP (red) and help me get the achiev, but with both halves of the Mistwrought Key, the door opens but not the chest and no achievement pops up. My guildie was able to loot it without issues. I haven’t taken the key parts to other Borderlands as I didn’t want to risk it getting consumed without getting the achiev.

I’ve attached a screenshot of both halves in my inventory and the chest that is locked and won’t open. I tried relogging, it didn’t help.

Go sylvari! Attune to fire and stare in wonder how these leafy creatures manage to avoid setting themselves on fire!

< Proud owner of a sylvari ele

Better bank them and open at 80. Most of the mats drops usually scale to your level and being 80 gives you a better chance for t6 mats. All gear drops, masterwork or rare, will also be close to your level.

Chasind.3128:

Is it just those 3 items?
Or will there be more items for sale?
Like ROX’S QUIVER

The news article says “You’ll get 31 chances to save big on different Gem Store items or pick up a popular item from the past!” so I’m also hoping the Rox quiver backskin is among such popular past items making a return.

Fingers crossed for Rox Quiver and Quaggan Minis making a comeback this month!

I’m still getting these as well. Got one just the other night. Should’ve had these removed instead of karma ones.

What I would’ve liked is to be able to forge Endless Blue, Black, Pink and Green tonics into one mystery one to save some inventory slots…

Since we know both the current and upcoming LW involve saving Lion’s Arch from Scarlet’s army, I think it’s very likely the piles would still be there. It would be nice if they offered us enough time for a chance at both potions instead of choosing one over the other.

There’s no guaranteed way to farm for T6 mats so the best option is to make the gold to complete your stacks. While I was finishing my legendary I just ran Orr harvest route on 4 chars and sold the ancient wood and orichalcum every day. That netted 12+g a day which was enough to fill buy orders of 40-50 t6 mats a day.

Another way to make a few quick g is to part with whatever you can from your collectibles if you’re not actively learning crafting, such as rare crafting mats (anything but Lodestones!), cooking mats or gems. I made 70g once by simply clearing some of those.

If you can wait a few months, I’d say save whatever gold you can for a month or two and wait for an update on precursor crafting. It’s been said it’s coming but we don’t really know when. It’s also been said it might be for new precursor for new legendaries, but it’s all user speculation for now as they haven’t confirmed anything yet. Should be beneficial either way, if it’s craftable you can get the mats to make your Dusk, if it’s only new precursors those will be new shinies everyone will want and result in old pre prices dropping in price.

I wouldn’t advice gambling all your gold on the Forge, it’s been known to drive people crazy when they wasted all their g down to the last few silver only to get nothing good in return. Save for now and see what the situation is in a couple weeks/months. A bit of patience can save a nice amount of gold. A guildie spent 900g on that same pre, Dusk, 2 weeks ago, only to find it dropped in price to 750g a few days ago.

Some of the ascended weapons look nice, I crafted a Tonn’s Musket rifle for my warrior simply because I liked the look and its dark blue coloring. As others have said the staves look pretty good by default. But not all the skins look nice. And it’s all subject to personal taste in the end.

You can transmute even low-level gear to them if you want, but you will always need a Transmutation Crystal as the ascended is a level 80 item.

Prior to finishing Kudzu I had an ascended longbow that I put the siren karma skin on from the LA jp vendor. Some of my guildies thought new ascendeds have surfaced due to the name formatting after transmute when I linked my fuschsia [Pirate Crescent of Accuracy] in chat once :P

Intended but I guess they never anticipated the impact it would have on the market when ascended armor was released.
They used it to drain some of the silk from the market, there were millions of scraps and bolts selling from 3c a silk and 10c a bolt prior to the ascended armor crafting release.

Sirsquishy I hear you, there are problems all around. But it boggles my mind they won’t even address the matter and accept there are issues. I mean seriously how many more dozens of these threads have to surface on this forum section before an official response is received? At least give us players some peace of mind. 4th night in a row I’m unable to even log in. Just busted my rear for 4 months to finish a legendary on Monday and I can’t even see the fruits of my labor. Trust me, it sucks.

I got the game last august after playing during a “Free weekend” and I know I’m not alone, so it’s definitely a good opportunity to sell more units for them as well as a great way for players to convince their friends to play the game. I’d love one too, I have friends who are on the fence about getting it without a “demo” or “free trial” first.

@ Tom Gore, I think reluctance doesn’t always come down to the cost but moreso being unsure about enjoying the game. As was my case, having come from a supernatural modern-day MMO I wasn’t sure I’d like the medieval fantasy aspect of GW2 until I had the opportunity to actually play it.

It’s actually been well over a month since this occured. Any updates on a possible solution? Last time I got multiple harvest nodes was during Christmas/Wintersday LW.

OwO.1805:

Where is your usual: “we are aware of the issue and working on it”?

Going by a loose translation of the spanish thread post linked a few posts up it says just that. They’re working on it and are sorry for the inconvenience. But that was like 5 days ago.

Yeah 2nd night in a row I’m unable to log-in. I get to character select screen then proceed to getting kicked out again with that error ^ It was fine from 11 to 2pm today on the EU side, this nonsense only happens during evening primetime.

@ Lakdav. Not it. Not on my end. I run a home business relying on high-speed internet to send large .psd files to and from and pay a hefty amount of cash for a fast and stable connection. Just ran a test, 89.63Mb/s dl, 56.34Mb/s ul, 5ms ping. Everything works and loads within the second, as it should. GW2 isn’t. I don’t expect it to load in a second, but currently it won’t at all. This is a GW2 server related issue.

Having the same issues. It takes a while to log me in after inserting my password, then once I open it brings me to character select screen. I can select one and click “Play” but the button becomes greyed out. Nothing loads or when it does it’s just the loading screen, hanging, and after a few minutes it boots me with a Lost connection to server and the same Code=7:11:3:191:101 error others are getting. It was fine earlier today.

Ran into the same issue last night while we were doing guild missions. Failed a t3 trek due to this. Hopefully they can address this soon, either by moving the trek (and letting us know would be nice) or maybe somehow turn it off from possible trek locations if it’s truly under vigil keep atm.

I believe it’s this Diminishing Returns thing I kept hearing about but never experienced until last night either. After 2 runs of LA I was getting like 12-15 karma per event which struck me as odd. As LA consists purely of events I imagine hitting a certain number of events in sequence may pass as “farming” and render these low rewards to push players to do something else. I swapped chars briefly and that seemed to fix things for me.

It was working as intended around (my) noon (GMT+2) on Ruins of Surmia yesterday. Did 2 runs and got T3 reward with 600+ citizens saved and got some Dragon Coffers for it. None today while doing 2 runs with 600+ saved again.

He sees the error in joining forces with Scarlet and has gone rogue on his alliance

Since the forum is already swarmed by complaints and could-have-been-better posts (to which I admit I contributed myself), I figured it wouldn’t hurt to have a thread focused around the positive aspects of this latest update to show the devs we appreciate the hard work they put into it.

So thank you Anet devs for:

• an easier way to obtain obsidian shards than grinding karma. A big help to those of us working on legendaries.
• a new way to increase Magic Find without the expense of salvaging every single drop. I take the salvage route instead of selling (might explain why I’m rather poor in this game) but I know many enjoy the drawings as a new form of Essences of Luck.
• progressive crafting. While I may not be a fan of the look of this backpiece, I hope the crafting system carries on for future models, which everyone can work on at their own pace and gradually improve upon.
• scavenger hunt type achievement. I know it may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I personally enjoyed tracking down all these little piles of rubble.
• quaggan tonics. Everyone loves them though some would not admit to it at first. Nice to have more variety (and brawl) over the old quaggan tonics from that event in Straits of Devastation.

Anything in particular that you enjoyed about this update? Share yours!

Not working on RoS either.

Just done on RoS, I led a group that escorted all 7 moas to safety but there was no event report at the end, with no credit towards “Please Follow Me to the Exit” achiev nor “All Bets are Off”.
Another commander watching over the Plaza reported the Lawson escort as bugged.

Same inventory issue and it’s driving me a little crazy. I may be a tad OCD as I like my inventory window narrow enough to be able to open it and roam or fight, as well as liking items arranged in a certain order. But today it’s always wider whenever I open it and moves items in my bags around. Please address this issue soon.

That’s just a preview of one on a beefy norn. Unlike Lurock, I’ll reserve my judgment until I can see how each set looks like, on both genders and all races.

Where the bloody hell are you seeing them? Cause I logged on after seeing the gemstore update news only to find they’re not there.

I’m with iFruit on this. I’m pretty sure the npc’s are evacuating LA while our purpose for the duration of this LW update is to push back the attack with Scarlet. Then upon her demise they will return to their homes. Sure, part of LA will be in shambles, as expected. Maybe they’ll have Marcello and Hoho-bot throw a new fundraiser to help rebuild it. But I sincerely doubt they’d do away with the area forever past this LW. It’s still needed for exploration, tied to Personal Story in more ways than one and has several localized achievements.

I’ve always wondered why that didn’t exist. Hopefully they’ll find a way to patch it in somewhere down the line.

I’d love to see this make a comeback aswell. I’m jealous whenever I see it on one of my guildies. I’d buy it in a heartbeat, I just started playing late August 2013 and wasn’t playing at the time of its release.
And the quaggan minis pack, they’re too adorable!

I primarily care for the ticket scraps, which have an insanely low drop rate. It should be at least a 1 in 2 ratio, as the current system of buying a skin off the TP is far more profitable than buying keys. And as a business I’m sure they’d prefer making real money instead. And as a buyer I’d feel less “robbed” when I bought stacks of keys only to get 1 scrap in 10 chests.

Items I think BLC could do without are the recently added essences, the scrolls of knowledge and unidentified dyes. Killstreak boosters. Gathering boosters barely render 1 extra log every 5 trees and are practically useless. Personally tested and compared against 3 chars harvesting the same nodes.

Items that are a maybe are Tomes of Knowledge, which is useful only if leveling chars. I’d be happy to see this eventually replaced with one of those anniversary scrolls giving 20 levels. Or maybe even less. 10 or 5 levels. But still one is just so easy to achieve with a few mins of gaming. Obviously set as a rarer drop in BL chests. The scrolls should ideally be replaced with their rare version that gives 5 skills, not 1. As the existing scrolls are just so easy to obtain from killing 2-3 champs.

I’m also not fond of tonics, as I have a big stockpile of 60+ unused and I get infinite brawl skills from my Bouquet of Roses and now Box of Chocolates, but I can see it be something players can use here and there for Costume Brawl dailies.

Ah, good to know. Thank you for clearing that up.

I’ve gone back and checked the release notes for the past 2 updates and nothing mentions plants harvest returns having been changed.
For the past month or so I’ve only gotten a single charge/harvest on all plants, while previously I’d get between 1-3 commonly, especially on such rewarding a wider pool of mats like Herb Patches or Root Vegetables.
Guildies also confirmed getting only single returns for the past few weeks.
Is there something I missed? Was there a patch to this that I may have missed? Or is anyone getting multiple charges/harvests and I’m just strangely out of luck?

That portal in Gendarran was linked to an achievement during Scarlet’s invasions back in august. Part of Emissary Vorp’s LW section of Clockwork Chaos, achievement “First Portal Invasion Responder” (Find the site of the first portal invasion in Gendarran Fields).

Mochann.5298:

I love PVErs, they’re so cute in how scared they are of coming face to face with competition.

I’m sorry. What competition is that? WvW is no different than champ trains. It all comes down to it being mindless zerging. I’ve been in the EotM and all I’ve seen is groups conquering objectives, avoiding each other, losing the objectives (on purpose!) then reconquering them, all along just by fighting the AI, for the loots.

Zylonite.5913:

opened 30 chests and nothing…

I was expecting at least 1 skin from opeing 30 chests. 30 keys cost me around $35….RNG delivers again…

Did you get any ticket scraps? You can use 10 ticket scraps to convert into a Claim Ticket and buy one skin from the BLT Specialist.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the person(s) who designed these lovely new skins. The staff looks absolutely gorgeous on my necro!

The inventory in question is the one with several bags you carry on you, which you can easily empty or just double-check before crafting by pressing “i”.
For crafting you also need to talk to a master crafter and ask him to teach you his profession first. If you’re trying to learn more than the allowed active 2 professions on one character, you’ll need to go back and talk to the master crafter for swapping professions back and forth.

Moshari.8570:

The problem is not overflows, the problem is events that are designed to require a full server map to do…which then forces the overflows. If the event was designed to scale properly for the people on the map and not require 150 people, you would see far less people guesting to the servers that can do the event, because EVERYONE could do the event on their home servers!

This. So much this. The problem is these large scale events requiring full maps to complete. Anything under and you’re guaranteed to fail. And most of the small servers don’t even have an active playerbase of 150, not even during a primetime evening slot of 8-10 to pull this off. If they scaled properly to smaller groups of 30-50, that would make a world of difference. I can 2-man golem, fire ele, maw, caledon wurm but I can’t even hold 1 lane for Marionette in this scenario. Nor be in 3 different spots at the tri-wurm. Add limited content, achievements and rewards, of course low pop server players will guest to bigger ones for this purpose.

They changed the format/display of the Releases page https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/ so it no longer includes the sneak preview box linking to details of the upcoming LS. I don’t like the change either, but it looks like it’s staying this way for the foreseeable future.

Do you have the Shimmerstone Cave in Sparkly Fen? That was the one I was stuck on, as I initially assumed it was just a big rock/mountain in the middle of it all based on the brown patch it covered on my map.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/f/f3/Sparkfly_Fen_map.jpg

While I agree they may be overpriced for the fact they are just rare quality items, they are priced so high because they are considered more prestige skins. If you want to save some gold buy it in pieces slowly over time or mix&match with existing more reasonably priced armors/skins.

As Gift of Mastery and Fortune are shared requirements across all existing legendaries, I think they’re staying. If I were you I’d also work on slowly stockpiling the required planks and oris for the smaller Gifts of Metal and Wood, just in case. If they somehow take these out you can always sell them for a few dozen g. And save every type of lodestone or core that you find, you can never know which ones you’ll need.

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

There’s usually a fair bit outside of Fort Trinity.

This. There are 5-6 Herb Patches in the greener zone between Fort Trinity and Mount Maelstrom on my server (Ruins of Surmia). I run 3 characters there twice a day and average 15-20 lemongrass daily. If 3 chars isn’t an option, just run 1 char hourly when you can, it should add-up within a day or two. At least after the initial run you’ll know where to find them.

But I agree, the nodes are few enough in this zone, no need to throw stuff like tarragon leaves or garlic in the mix, I’d be happier if it was a split 50% chance between coriander seeds and lemongrass.

I don’t know, I’m just back from buying the pick and after testing it out on a few different mining nodes (iron, silver, mithril, orichalcum), it seems to have a steady return of sprockets for me, higher than 20% (or maybe I’m just lucky). For every simple mine I’d get between 1-2 sprockets. For rich mines I’d get 1-2 sprockets with every charge.

What server are you on and what times do you usually play?

I feel my server (RoS) is just as deserted as yours, while still not at the bottom of the list, but close. Most of Orr always contested, making it extremely hard to explore solo on a fresh char. Important world chain events rarely (close to never) get done such as the centaur/Modniir or Ogre Wars. I’ve never actually done the Oouo chain in Timberline or the Covington one in Bloodtide. Never. No players around or willing to do these. You can be on a mid-level map and shout in chat for help with anything, you’ll only virtually hear an echo as there’s no one around. Very dishearting. I chose this server as my only friend playing it at the time was here. Now he’s ready to jump ships to a big server, when I’ve found a home with a nice, casual guild I refuse to leave. Even the latest LW commonly fails, such as the Marionette, as we don’t really have the manpower to beat it outside of maybe primetime evening 8-10 timeslot.

I’m all for getting some karma back. Or at least rewarding large scale events like World Bosses or Temples the previous 1.5k+ karma that it used to have. It’s not unreasonable, considering rewards are once a day per char anyways. Bring it back in dungeons. Once a day per path. Give bigger karma rewards for LW content, that might ensure more players actually doing these events past the initial 2-3 days for achievements.

I’m not happy. They catered to the veterans who have been stockpiling high amounts since day 1, with no regards to the effects this would have over players that were or are starting out. I came into the game in August, had short of 300k karma when the nerf hit a month later and I blew it all on the rare/exo recipes while leveling professions. Now I’m a week away from finishing my stack of t6 mats for legendary, and at 72k karma and 6 shards in my collectibles, I’m probably looking at another month if not more of wait for getting the final shards to complete my Gift of Mastery. And considering the other 500k+ karma I already put into clovers, it’s pretty unreasonable.