Guild Wars 2

Brewergamer.8357:

Odius.4705:

Mark.1753:

Before i start let me explain why im creating this post. I really enjoy this game have played it since launch and some of the beta and i would like to continue playing it for a while to come. But the future of the game rest purelly in the sales of gems and the use of the gem store which is why i feel not enough effort is being put into this at the moment.
Yes you have been haveing sales on specific items and you stuck a load of street cloths in but that doesnt come close to what i believe should be for sale. Heres a list of things me and my mates think would be good to have in there on a point of view we would like this game to keep funding new content.

ARMOUR AND WEAPON SKINS Im supprised that the store is not flooded with these maybe you could put past event skins in like halloween ones or just create totally new new weapon and armour skins or a different route would be list every armour set in the game so people could purchase straight from store.

BOOSTS I know there is a few there already at 50% for a hour but why not add more options like a day or even a week and could be a option for say 50% xp gain for a week on your acount rather than single character.

RACE CHANGE Suprised this one isnt in already i think a lot of people would go for it i see it asked for often enough. Yes you can say what do they do about story well easiest way i could think would be reset it. I know a lot of people i play with would not be bothered about looseing story progress.

NAME CHANGE Same as above not sure why its not in already think they quite a few people who would like to change.

BLACK LION KEYS This is more a change to price than a addition i have a massive amount of chest but refuse to buy the keys at the current price if it was more reasonable like 20 keys for the current price of one then maybe i would but more of them but at the moment can say i would feel like im being mugged of if i bought them.

BAG/BANK Upgrades maybe there could be a reduced price if you fully upgrade at once rather than one at a time.
Im sure there are loads of items/services people could think of that would sell well why not list them reply with your ideas hopefully we keep mentioning these things devolpers might start listening.

I know there will be some people that disagree with adding some things but im coming at this from a point of view that i would like to see the game continue to do well and continue to produce new content.

One last note i dont think we need anymore street clothing as when im in lionsarch i never see anyone wearing that stuff so dont imagine it sells to well please just add stuff people want you must read the forums there are plenty of the same things mentioned over and over that players actually want.

I agree 100% with your premise, but I do dispute some of the details.

-Armor/Weapon Skins: More town style clothes should be added, but they need to be careful they don’t release armor sets that exist through other means. For example, you shouldn’t be able to buy dungeon armor. Second, they need to make ALL gem store armors collectable. People don’t have inventory space… the gem store, to be 100% effective, should never have a single drawback to a player such as eating up inventory space.

-Boosts: I’m for more boosts. I think they should reduce the price though. I would buy some XP boosts for my alts, but right now they are just too expensive for what they offer. You should get like a 5 pack for 100 gems IMO.

-Race change: I know some people want this, but I think it is harder to implement since many story items (and dialogue I think) are tied to race. If they can do it easily, sure.

-Name change: They have confirmed this is “coming soon”.

-Black Lion Keys: I agree with you, make them cheaper and I will buy them up! I would like a 10 pack for 100 gems.

-Bag/Bank: I disagree with you here. These are one time purchases, and I think the slots they offer without purchase is reasonable. Keep them as they are, but raise the cap on bank slots.

RACE CHANGE: About the race change, all Arenanet would really have to do is just start you from the very beginning of that race’s storyline, for example let’s say I’m level 80 and entirely done with my races storyline(let’s say human) and I switch to norn, well it would start me out at the very first mission of the norn race storyline but I would still be level 80. It’s that simple.

But that would be pointless. You would be Op in all the stories etc, might as well start you back at level1. But that would be exactly the same as just making an alt…

Jormag, Shatterer, Teq, in 8 bit. Bam.

But batman only got “pows!” and “whack!” when he hit people. How would you get a pow from punching air? Or are you saying that you used to be able to do that and it has changed? Sorry i wasn’t around for that, so I really don’t know.

I agree mostly, but not about keys. I think they could be lowered a bit, but from what I’ve seen you end up getting way more rewards than what you put in. So making the keys 5 or 10 for 100 gems.. would make all other items obsolete. As it is now I end up with a few salvage kits every 5 keys or so. Those are 300 gems EACH. 5keys/450 gems and if you get 2 salvage kits, you just made it seem pretty pointless to buy them outright. So imagine if they were 5/100gems… Anet would make no money at all.

I haven’t been able to find any info on when or if there is mention of new faces/advanced options for characters. I feel as though there isn’t as much customization in creation in GW2 as there is in other MMO’s. I haven’t had the problem much, but I hear others complain that they see “themselves” when out in the world after spending some time on their unique look. I am aware there is gear and accessories which seems fine right now. But is there anything in the works for more creation advancements so that we can make more unique characters? If I were to guess I would say that the limitation is in that the story etc shows our characters talking and therefore have to program those faces accordingly for all expressions. But really the only 2 things I see that hamper uniqueness are the skills we all get, and the creation limitations.

Also I would like to say that this seems to happen the most with humans as they are a hugely played race. Some races though have even less options, personally I think sylvari skin patters/texture could be made to be more appealing. As for the argument that trees will be knotty and barky and ugly google Birch trees and Kapok tree :P Just some ideas.

So is there any word on this?

Wayfinder.8452:

Geotherma.2395:

On a side note, does anyone else think its funny that a dev or someone tosses a piece of information and people flock to it like a carrot on a stick lol Thus spending 5 pages on analyzing what they were given. Find a toy that they love when they are being fussy, when they are bored with that one find another. I just thought it was funny :P I enjoy reading though, always interesting stuff.

Maybe because there is little real communication with the community on these forums. When you’re hungry you’ll eat what you’re given.

Lol I guess. But people should be lucky they see anyone at all. Games like Aion just have community coordinators who have nothing to do with development. They get their information from some guy who knows a guy who met a guy who heard a rumor that “X” thing might happen soon. Whereas here you get devs, designers, community leads, mods, all sorts of people posting all over the forums and responding to people. And that is a great thing to see. Sometimes people don’t realize how nice something is unless they never had it or lose it. We get videos, feeds, live-streams, blogs, interviews up the wazoo. And I think it is great they take their time to respond when they have so much to do.

So we want to boast who has/spent a ton of real cash in game? I feel that kind of behavior would lead to elitism and harassment. I mean I don’t get upset when I see the guy in the parking lot with a corvette, but if he had kitten over his head of how much he makes, and I had to see that on every person? Meh. Just seems like something someone would want to show off how much they, their parents, or someone else have spent on that account to people who are less fortunate. I’ve spent plenty on MMO’s but I don’t go flaunting it around or bragging. I feel if you really want to feel important just spend the money in general on the game, and when an exciting expansion or addon comes that you love just remember “oh yea, I helped make this in some small way.”

Sorry i can’t seem to find it but heres a link if you wanna look too
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats

What about
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Bosses-Events-with-chests-on-Set-timers/first#post1670761

As I’m sure everyone has seen there is an “overflow” of overflow threads which are complaining about guesting and not being able to do the large scale events. Some things before I get into specifics on what I’m curious that may work:

1.People tend to get put in overflow because the timer (Dragontimer website) is letting everyone know about when they will come on each server.

2.People in different time zones sometimes cannot even get to do some events because of time restraints.

3. As of the next patch bosses/events that drop chests will only be 1 per event per account.

So now for my question.

Does anyone think that it would be better to have certain bosses like Claw of Jormag, Shadow Behemoth, Shatterer, Maw etc, on exact timers so that players could plan on being there at a certain time? Most people in large guilds have an advantage of being told when something is up, unfortunately they can often time end up in overflows. Now setting a timer to exactly when they will spawn “could” allow players to check at those times and see if they could finish the events.

What this would look like-
Bare in mind I’m not sure of the logistics of this, and could be changed to work better
Every server could have either its own timer for each event, separating the events so that:
1. All events do not share same time frame (aside from stuff like maw during maybe Jormag etc)
2. All events on every server share same exact time (to discourage hopping over to the next server)
“Oh I missed the 7pm one, I’ll go do maw that is garaunteed to be up in 5 minutes and try the 9pm Jormag.”
I know there are many fans of the website that has the dragon timer and they did a great job with all the work they put into it. I think this idea would still allow them to run as they do providing timers to the events.

A reason why I suggest this instead of randomizing events:
1. People could entirely miss large events because of bad luck on making it on time.
2. This would do away with the dragon timer website that people worked hard at.

And so no one misunderstands my reasoning for timed events:
I am NOT saying make all events time based, I love meta events and dynamic events that happen based on triggers.

Timed events would also lead to more people doing them because they would know exactly when to do it. Because of this I think feedback could be given to devs about how they could enhance the difficulty and complexity of the events. What I mean is devs could add more motion to Jormag, more HP and variations to Maw. Tons more ideas could be created, and making the events change over time could really enhance game-play. It would also allow them to get an idea of how crowded each event is and adjust accordingly over time as more statistics come in ie, when there is a serious overflow at the 8pm est event dynamically adjust HP OR simply implement a way for overflow to do the boss or get in somehow. Also for future updates they could add randomized world events or world events similar to how they are now as the current events are staples of most players day to day adventure rather than unique events. Making these standard events, and then adding future content that was more random would help those seeking more unique world events. Because as it is now there is very little that is truly unique about the 10 or so events that everyone does almost as religiously as their own daily achievements. Speaking of, daily achievements could include these timer world events since people could pick a time to do them, as well pick to do them at all.

So that’s my very long post, what is everyone’s thoughts?

PS: Sorry for some serious run on sentences, never was good at that :P

Leablo.2651:

Wow, 3 backpacks in every 10 chests, you would be stupid not to spend all your money on keys. Hey guys why aren’t you getting in on all this free gold?

Not every 10 chests lol. But like I said EVERY TIME I do buy a nice stack of keys and add the results, I’m making much better purchases via keys than buying the items outright, and on top of the gem savings, I’m making actual gold too. But it bothers me not at all that others don’t do the same, I will enjoy my lottery

Khisanth.2948:

Geotherma.2395:

Khisanth.2948:

Geotherma.2395:

Leablo.2651:

That’s not gonna happen. They charge 70 gems for a repair canister when almost every dungeon has a guy right there who will repair everything for 12s. There is no way they are releasing an item like this at a gem equivalent of 4s, you are dreaming. Beetle’s estimation is a lot more realistic, if they made this item it would be comparable in price to the book and if the book works then it’s redundant.

But there were other suggestions as well such as a 24hr timer unlimited. Which for the right price could be worth it. Or simply add it to the BL chest loot table.

ugh! more useless items in the bl chests

Everyone says that meanwhile their gasping when I spend 450ish gems and get a 6g mini, 2 back packs(14g each at the time), and uni dyes lol. But to each their own, I’ve spent 450 and gotten 4 BL salvage kits (300 gems each). But maybe its just me, I find ways to enjoy the game. Also gotta love when more keys drop heh

How about this?
ugh! more useless items in the bl chests and the people who find it useful will have to gamble for it!

Every “useless” item in the chests diminishes the value of the bl keys.

One mans junk is another mans treasure :P

I’ve made twice in gold back from chests since I started buying them, and I’m counting large numbers. Each time I do a large amount of keys I’m making more gold than I could have from just using the gem-gold transfer, AND I’m getting a crap ton of items that I need to keep using because they are overflowing my bank. And “useless” is only relative. You could say the last 10 keys I bought and got 3 backpacks were useless, do I use backpacks? Nope. Someone else does, and I thanked them for the 20+g I made. Again, see phrase at top of post.

Halanna.3927:

Halanna.3927:

Geotherma.2395:

Halanna.3927:

Geotherma.2395:

Which kits are you using
What level rares are you using
What is your sample size
Proof

Well, I don’t have any proof, but I use BL salvage kits exclusively on all my lvl 80 rares and out of the last 17 rares I’ve salvaged, I’ve gotten zero ectos.

Worst RNG run ever. Sometimes I used to get none, but that was rarely. Now, I get none every time.

If this keeps up, I’ll stop buying BL kits and just sell the rare for 25-30s and buy an ecto. At least I’ll be guaranteed one each time.

17 rares and 0 ectos, you must be doing something wrong.. And I rarely ever say that.. But there’s statistically almost no way that’s possible. Please see “BL salvage VS Master Salvage” thread.

If you seriously did 17 with 0 ecto and make it to 20 rares with no ecto, I would send a bug report..

Well, we’ll see today. I have 2 rares in my alt’s backpack, and I’m waiting on the Maw event to start. I’ll put these rares in the bank and have my main you has the BL salvage kits in her bags salvage them.

But yes, I seriously salvaged 17 rares with no ecto using nothing but BL kits. I’m a gem buyer. I don’t see the point in salvaging unless I’m using a BL kit.

If I salvage these next 3, and no ecto(s), then I’ll take your advice and put in a bug report.

So I salvaged those 3 rares and got 2 ectos total. So from 20 BL salvages 2 ectos.

Worst RNG ever. Or conspiracy theory. Take your pick. Either way, that is unacceptable for something purchased from the gem store. For the price of the kits, the % chance of ‘rare’ material should be higher if this is the way salvaging is going to be now.

17 though just doesn’t seem right. I had to sit and watch each and every salvage and input into excel every single one. And not once did I see a string of 0’s from BL kit larger than 3, “maybe” 4. Granted there’s always range, but in 800 rares…

Also I don’t buy mine directly, I get Keys and most times end up with a few stacks of them. If you figure the price (300gems) and your 450/5 Keys got you even 1 salvage kit (25) your already ahead in terms of price. Not saying they are guaranteed, but just so you know so you aren’t spending too much ^^ On average though I would say 300 gems (maybe.. is 3-4g? haven’t logged in) should get you usually 20+ ectos, at 30s each is 6g? Correct me if I’m wrong, I seriously just woke up minutes ago lmao. So even buying outright should net you some gold PLUS the runes/sigils are garaunteed and some mats. If you are a fan of Mystic Forge you can toss them in, at 4s each sometimes even 1 good rune/sigil exotic gets you 1g+.

So you spent 300 gems for 25 salvages for 68+ rares, and you should get more than your moneys worth so long as your not in some sort of rut, or there’s a serious problem with your account for some reason, you should do well either way (BL chest chance-Outright buying).

Can we get signatures (account name) of who created the items on exotics, or if that’s too much just special exotics and such? Kind of feel like a nobody when I make a cool jewel or somethen.. just selling on tp.

Unlock Tech tree (Level) Influence Merits Time Other

Guild Bounty Art of War (5) 30,000 0 3 days Enables earning of merits.
Guild Trek Economy (6) 50,000 30 7 days Requires Guild Bounty
Guild Rush Politics (6) 50,000 80 7 days Requires Guild Trek
Guild ChallengeArt of War (6) 50,000 150 7 days Requires Guild Rush
Guild Puzzle Architecture (6) 50,000 250 7 days Requires Guild Challenge

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Missions

randomfightfan.4091:

well that’s INSANELY lame… so much for getting guild challenge after bounty……. so lame. Why can’t people just build what they want if they have the merits for it. We don’t have the influence to build everything like that so I didn’t want to waste it on crap we don’t even want.

Because it is a progressive system. By the time you hit the last option you will be able to do a ton of guild missions a week. That’s the overall goal of the system, not to just unlock whatever you want.

Clouded Judgement.7834:

Yeah there are icons but they don’t explain much. You see the guild puzzles shows an Orange icon but the unlock you need is actually Red. What they need is instead of a useless picture a clear mouseover text stating “Requires Guilt Hunt” unlocked.

I see red equals Guild Challenge to unlock?

Phoenix.3416:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

I don’t see anything in-game that says you have to unlock them in order, there is just a merit cost associated with each mission. You have to do bounty first because it is the only one that doesn’t require any merits, but I don’t see why you couldn’t run bounty for 10 weeks and then unlock puzzle next.

Is there an actual hidden requirement for unlocking in order or is that just the fastest method?

You have to look at the requirements for each upgrade. they have to be done in a certain order.

There are also icons on the individual unlocks that show what you need.

Vol.5241:

Re: April Fools
Hopefully they give everyone a precursor, and those people who try to sell it/forge it are met with an April Fools message.

Realistically, nothing. It’s a one-day ‘holiday’ and not worth the programming resources

Not sure what they would do with Easter – I think they’re focusing more on the April patch

Not worth the programming resources lol..

http://youtu.be/Yp05edmWjV4

Halanna.3927:

Geotherma.2395:

Which kits are you using
What level rares are you using
What is your sample size
Proof

Well, I don’t have any proof, but I use BL salvage kits exclusively on all my lvl 80 rares and out of the last 17 rares I’ve salvaged, I’ve gotten zero ectos.

Worst RNG run ever. Sometimes I used to get none, but that was rarely. Now, I get none every time.

If this keeps up, I’ll stop buying BL kits and just sell the rare for 25-30s and buy an ecto. At least I’ll be guaranteed one each time.

17 rares and 0 ectos, you must be doing something wrong.. And I rarely ever say that.. But there’s statistically almost no way that’s possible. Please see “BL salvage VS Master Salvage” thread.

If you seriously did 17 with 0 ecto and make it to 20 rares with no ecto, I would send a bug report..

Randulf.7614:

Axe warriors should keep on spinning once they start

Eventually they’ll be hired not just to kill Lupicus, but also drill to the World’s Core. Presumably where they’ll meet Doug McClure. He’d sort out those dragons!

According to that movie I seen months ago, if it keeps spinning it isn’t real. So since this is a virtual world, your idea is completely plausible :P

Khisanth.2948:

Geotherma.2395:

Leablo.2651:

That’s not gonna happen. They charge 70 gems for a repair canister when almost every dungeon has a guy right there who will repair everything for 12s. There is no way they are releasing an item like this at a gem equivalent of 4s, you are dreaming. Beetle’s estimation is a lot more realistic, if they made this item it would be comparable in price to the book and if the book works then it’s redundant.

But there were other suggestions as well such as a 24hr timer unlimited. Which for the right price could be worth it. Or simply add it to the BL chest loot table.

ugh! more useless items in the bl chests

Everyone says that meanwhile their gasping when I spend 450ish gems and get a 6g mini, 2 back packs(14g each at the time), and uni dyes lol. But to each their own, I’ve spent 450 and gotten 4 BL salvage kits (300 gems each). But maybe its just me, I find ways to enjoy the game. Also gotta love when more keys drop heh

Aurust.8961:

Wow…. looks like alot of people are still clueless about how to dump karma for gold… keep buying your boxes suckers.

And no im not referring to crafting a legendary and selling it.

Thanks I will And I spent the 17g I made from them already, time for round.. oh I forget lol But money is so easy to make, people like you are discouraging others from doing things that “can” be profitable, which I can’t complain about since thats making me money Oh and bravo to the people saying Orr events aren’t doable anymore, i enjoy the free roaming events all to myself and the other 4-5 people doing them daily

kittentharius.7639:

I just have a quick question and it might answer some others peoples questions but will magic find affect the chance of better loot from the reworked chest that pops on the side of the screen?

Magic find does not affect chests. Unless they say otherwise, this includes these.

Maybe this could be part of
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Aura-around-different-rarity-icons/first#post1612212

Same idea could work for those too. If they made rarity outlines game wide.

Leablo.2651:

That’s not gonna happen. They charge 70 gems for a repair canister when almost every dungeon has a guy right there who will repair everything for 12s. There is no way they are releasing an item like this at a gem equivalent of 4s, you are dreaming. Beetle’s estimation is a lot more realistic, if they made this item it would be comparable in price to the book and if the book works then it’s redundant.

But there were other suggestions as well such as a 24hr timer unlimited. Which for the right price could be worth it. Or simply add it to the BL chest loot table.

Valanga.5942:

Lafiel.9372:

Valanga.5942:

Cute… Then after the guaranteed rare (why don’t give us directly 1 ecto or 22 silver instead? O yes, because that way we need to buy Black Lion Salvage Kits… And btw, good move nerfing the ectos drop from kits, now it can happens to exotics don’t even give one ecto.) the chest will be back giving loads of useless green and blue crap.
Good move ANet, good move.

Sighs……. no nerf was done to the ectos… why do people keep spreading these lies… They have started if they ever touch the ectos they will definitely tell us. Sometimes, I pity Anet on the player base they have to work with…

Salvaged one Exotic piece with Black Lion Kit… Got 0 ectos, when earlier exotics gaves at least one of them.
But keep buying evething they said

Lol you salvaged 1 and got 0, wow.. just wow at this community..
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/BL-S-Kits-vs-Master-Kits-Results-Ectos/page/2#post1655722

Do people even know what RNG is anymore?

Beetle.2476:

We can just buy a book to reset it. It would be about the same as 100 gems to buy a grandmaster, so not neccesary.

100 gems is about 1g and some silver. And the price of teh item would be equivelant or less than the 4s-ish fee for trait resetting.

TooBz.3065:

Death Reincarnated.3570:

LOL this is so sad and funny at the same time.

I’m glad ANet is trying to fix the problem, but like always, players freak out like nuclear winter is looming. I just wish there were some advantages to having alts to make up for the expense of gearing them out.

Sighhhh…

It’s not that a nuclear winter is looming. I’m just kittened off that they, once again, kitten people with alts. You could make it so you can only get 1 rare / day / character across all bosses. Instead, they changed it to 1 rare / day / boss across all characters.

I know, people with just one character are “special” and need to be catered too. I just wish there was a little compensation to help mitigate the expense of gearing an alt.

This is the way it was.. Garaunteed 1+ rares, per day, per character acrossed all bosses,

This one for sure-

Shadow Phage.9084:

Nike.2631:

Raif.9507:

While you are correct in nearly everything, if you read that graph correctly, the highest amount of ecto sold is right underneath the 354 mark. Look closely at the graph, the line drops to 0 and only bumps up to show a unique player(s) who sold ecto at that amount. After the 250 mark it only bumps up twice at above the 294 mark and below the 354 mark.

Um… that wouldn’t NEARLY account for the total volume stated. There almost certainly are some zeroes in there, but there’s a heck of a lot of ones required to bring the total to 150,000+

The majority of ecto sold is on the left side of the graph, from about about the 1300-ish sellers @ 2 ecto each to about the 100-ish sellers @ 20 ecto each range (approx. 2500 per data point.) After that it drops to about ~1500 ecto sold per data point until it drops again at ~ 40 ecto per seller. Then it tapers off until you hit the ~100 ecto per seller and 250 ecto per seller bumps.

Here’s Smith’s graph modified to delineate every 100 unique sellers and every 5 ecto increment.

In case you were wondering, there was only about 10-15 sellers at both the ~100 and ~250 ecto per seller points.

I was looking too, with handy dandy googles zoom function lol

On a side note, does anyone else think its funny that a dev or someone tosses a piece of information and people flock to it like a carrot on a stick lol Thus spending 5 pages on analyzing what they were given. Find a toy that they love when they are being fussy, when they are bored with that one find another. I just thought it was funny :P I enjoy reading though, always interesting stuff.

The biggest problem with thieves in pve/wvw is that there is at no point an animation where I beat the crap out of someone, steal their wallet and run away. Yes there are loot bags etc, but seriously, I’m a thief, I want to rob you…..and I want to olook like those burglers on “Cops” while I do it. I’m ok with the wvw police arresting me afterwards, so long as I get to fraps the animation where "Geotherma tackles (Server Name) Invader, beats with baseball bat, steals wallet, and goes invis and walks away “literally walks”". And before i get hate mail lol.. I would be just fine with this being done to me, because I’d probably let thieves kill me just to see it over and over :P

Geikamir.6329:

Getting 80 in a week (after 10 taken out from laurels) is more than 11 per day. There is no way to “farm” these since they drop randomly. In lower level zones they drop more frequently, but no where near often enough to make 11 a day. Even if you played for 11 hours every day, getting one an hour is extra exceptionally unlikely.

I do, plenty of people can account for this I play “several” hours a day, and usually end up with 8-10. Its not that I’m farming these items, its that I’m simply farming and this is the result. I just opened another 20 today, no luck though just a few rares that weren’t special. Also my vids of me farming are online for all to see, in them is a decent amount of uni dyes per event.

Ninth Requiem.3250:

Geotherma.2395:

rgrwng.4072:

can’t we repurchase the trait books for 2 gold each? and then just keep a stack of them?

The books are 10X more expensive than the NPC who resets traits. The Gem item would need to be fairly cheap to work, and it would work with any level for the same price. Or possibly come in stacks.

On a side note don’t ever spend 2g on the books as the NPC is much cheaper lol.. I think the max cost of the NPC who resets is something like 14s, but I’d have to check.

The difference is that books go into your inventory and can be used at any time. If you’re testing out a new build, and find it’s really not working, you can use a book mid-dungeon to respec.
Having a gemstore item that could do this would be helpful, although it’d have to be either very, very cheap, or have lots of uses.

So we could do:
Very cheap stack
Very cheap item

or even an unlimited use item with a timer (like bank golem). Maybe a 24hour countdown.

Mystic.5934:

Something I realized after it happened:
I was buying and salvaging lots of mithril trinkets over the weekend. most were salvaged with Mystic SK. I was most focused on the ecto and the socket, so I didn’t pay attention at the time, but afterwards it struck me as weird that I didn’t get a single ori ore from ~300 salvages.
I was salvaging things like Snowflake Mithril Amulet, and it would give me mithril, ecto, and brilliant snowflake. I got around 400 mithril, but maybe only 5 ori. I remember there were a few ori in the first few salvages, but noted that later on I would salvage 50 trinkets and not get a single one. could be the trinkets I was salvaging can’t drop ori? (I was also salvaging non-crafted trinkets as well) or is there DR on that 25% chance to get upgraded materials?

I believe Ori is based on what you are salvaging. Notice my results show no more than 3-4ish ori after all those salvages. And yet when I salvaged 200 of the same type of armor I made 14ish Ori.

So I think its just that the Ori is a very low drop rate and also depends on which type of gear. I actually noticed this as well as I was doing the test. I seen every 200 only gave me like 4 Ori, I was like cmon now.. almost 300 ecto and 4 Orichalchum whyyyy :P

My results for Black Lion Salvage Kits for 200 rare armor pieces are:
4 orichalcum
My results for Black lion salvage kits #2
3 orichalchum
My results for Master Salvage Kits for 200 rare armor pieces are:
3 orichalcum
My results for Master Salvage Kits for 200 rare armor pieces #2 are:
17 orichalchum

“There is no DR associated with salvaging.”
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Diminishing_returns

Chessrook.8643:

I once had someone ask me for 3 gold so he could buy a certain Superior signet. I said yes, if he could give me 5 gold so I could get a Superior signet of Battle. He said OK. I did not send him money.

When I mentioned him on mapchat though, people groaned, and one person sent me a joke e-mail that I still keep to this day for a chuckle now and then.

Hello friend, my name is [name removed], princess of queensdale. As im sure you have heard my father the king has recently died and left me a great fortune. I wish to share with you his fortune but I need your help in order to access his account at the queensdale bank of queens dale. Please send the amount of 1 gold to me so I know I can trust you with my fathers fortune.

Random, silly, yet amusing.

Lol in game foreign lottery/inheritances scam ftw.

The cool thing about GW2 is that you have one name (account name). So if you do some kind of kittengery everyone will know who you are unless you spend another 60 bucks. Unlike most games where people do this with alts, take peoples money or items then disappear, you will be hated so long as you play that account. And $60 to get a new account isn’t worth any items in the game that you took.

DeWolfe.2174:

Geotherma.2395… Wow, you must do some serious power farming to get 90 in a week, GJ! I’ve never seen numbers like that myself. Though the big 3 in rare have alluded me after 1k+ hours of game play.

I seem to get streaks of them, they either drop a lot or not much at all. And I’m about 950hours over 2 months, i do farm way too much lol.. oh and 10 were from laurels heh.

I just opened 90 dyes i got this week from farming, 10 from laurels.. Made 12g and went back to playing the game. They drop pretty regularly for me.

Arganthium.5638:

Geotherma.2395:

rgrwng.4072:

can’t we repurchase the trait books for 2 gold each? and then just keep a stack of them?

The books are 10X more expensive than the NPC who resets traits. The Gem item would need to be fairly cheap to work, and it would work with any level for the same price. Or possibly come in stacks.

On a side note don’t ever spend 2g on the books as the NPC is much cheaper lol.. I think the max cost of the NPC who resets is something like 14s, but I’d have to check.

I’ve always had to spend only 3.50 silver for trait reset. Never any more or less. 0_o

And 10x is an under exaggeration. Given a cost of 3.50s, that would mean that Grandmaster trait books cost 57.143 times more than the standard NPC retrainer does.

Sorry I didn’t feel like doing the math lol, yes was an exaggeration..

And if you are 80 then 3.5 could be the max, I have a bad memory so I didn’t recall what the price was at the time.

For better clarification since I’ve gotten some sleep finally:

Adept 10s
Master 1g
Grandmaster 2g
According to wiki.

“Spending trait points can be done at any time. In PvE and WvW, however, resetting trait points has to be done by:

Using a Training Manual, or
Paying 5c /point to a trainer (at L80, this could cost 3s 50c ).

I was thinking maybe to keep the price reasonable right now 3 gems is worth about 3s 33c. So maybe the gem store item could be a 10 pack for 30 gems of this item. Or
10x pack 30 gems/ 20x pack for 50 gems. Of course the market can change, but I think this would be cheaper and convenient for people. The other way around (gold to gems) 30 gems cost 61s (right now). The trait NPC would cost more than this if it was done the equivalent times. And of course the 20x pack is even cheaper. It isn’t a HUGE idea, just a small one, but maybe could be convenient to certain people.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Anatolian Turk.4057:

Geotherma.2395:

Paulytnz.7619:

Peetee.9406:

Dude your guild must be HUGE. If I asked mine if anyone had reduced salvaged ectos since last patch I would be lucky to get 5 people to answer me with a 322 person roster. But you got over 100 people to answer you?

It must be over 9000!!!

That sounds like a Guild issue to me. Why would you have 300+ people in a guild if they don’t even communicate what’s the point?

300 ninjas?

more like 300 spartans

“Tonight we dine in Orr!”

Also of a note, I’ve been having great success with Black Lion kits. Alas, I am now salvaging ones from the dragon champions and having managed to get lucky . . . well, I used to have four from Daily rewards. I now have 6 uses left on one :P

Come on, little kits, Daddy Tobias still needs his Ecto . . .

I use BL chests to get mine, on top of the other rewards its nice heh. But free is always best

Advert Paperer.7059:

It’s a decent idea, but it would be very susceptible to exploitation. If I have a million karma then I could spend an hour organizing my guildmates, recruiting players in map chat, running pre-events, etc… or I could just Guest over onto a high-pop server where the temple is open and make my purchase there. Or I could just check the map periodically, wait for someone else to clear the temple on my own server, zone in, and buy the stuff.

You might be able to make it work by providing the discount only to those players who participated in the temple-liberation event chain. However, it’s still a bit of a gimmick. If you really want players to run temples then the most obvious answer is simply “improve the loot.”

Yea that makes sense. Maybe make the NPC special and last only 5 min or something. Then the regular npc would be there. I really should do temples though to have a better picture.

Paulytnz.7619:

Peetee.9406:

Dude your guild must be HUGE. If I asked mine if anyone had reduced salvaged ectos since last patch I would be lucky to get 5 people to answer me with a 322 person roster. But you got over 100 people to answer you?

It must be over 9000!!!

That sounds like a Guild issue to me. Why would you have 300+ people in a guild if they don’t even communicate what’s the point?

300 ninjas?

If they made the boxes cheaper at temples that may give all servers more incentive to clear and do temple runs. Maybe 1000 karma cheaper at temples that are uncontested than anywhere else in Orr. This could extend to other things now, or in the future.

What do you think?

Syeria.4812:

The books don’t reset your traits anyway do they? I mean, traits are reset when you use the book to unlock the tier, but can you actually use them again after that?

I’ve heard ppl say that they were going to buy books to reset, until I told them about the NPC heh.

Essjay.2567:

“Good as new! Unless you start up bear-wrangling, this should last you a while.”

Every single repair merchant has this text, and after several hundred repairs, it really grinds on my nerves. It doesn’t make sense for an asura to be talking about bear-wrangling, especially because in some cases, I actually am bear-wrangling.

I realize this is a pretty trivial suggestion, but it would make repairing much more pleasant!

I don’t think I’ve seen this text.. I’ll have to take another look lol Or maybe ause I don’t really read them haha

Just a recap-

BL kits
400 tested
496 Ecto

Master kits
400 tested
357 ecto

Total tested 800
Total ectos 853

Before people post about nerfing ectos “again” please keep in mind:

Which kits are you using
What level rares are you using
What is your sample size
Proof

I’ll be happy to contribute further to the Ecto thread already made in the future with larger numbers and after patches.

On a side note keep in mind that tons of people are now receiving rares, some of which are either used to lots of rares, not used to lots of rares, or somewhere in between. There will be conflicting reports but the information remains the same. Your drops along with everything else in game are controlled by statistical mechanic that decides the outcome with a RNG incorporated. These are monitored by staff and programmers and we are only able to see half of that “pie”. With what we have we do research based on what we do know which gives us a rough idea of an outcome. So long as unbiased information is retained and the games mechanic themselves do not change, we will maintain a consistency which we can then voice our concerns about once all data is clearly understood and displayed.

zabakingboy.7160:

I sold something, so I have money there ready to get picked up. However, no matter how many times I click “Take All”, nothing happens.

anyone else had the same problem?

Don’t take this the wrong way, because I don’t know if you are new yet or not but did you try:

Going to the TP NPC to collect items
Making sure your inventory isn’t full
Relogging, restarting client

Sorry if you’ve tried/know these already, Like I said I don’t know if your new or not ^^;

rgrwng.4072:

can’t we repurchase the trait books for 2 gold each? and then just keep a stack of them?

The books are 10X more expensive than the NPC who resets traits. The Gem item would need to be fairly cheap to work, and it would work with any level for the same price. Or possibly come in stacks.

On a side note don’t ever spend 2g on the books as the NPC is much cheaper lol.. I think the max cost of the NPC who resets is something like 14s, but I’d have to check.

Seriously….Again…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/BL-S-Kits-vs-Master-Kits-Results-Ectos/first