It’s fun to run and challenging. I would love to see this stay in game permanently.
Exotic miniatures are not that rare. I get one from every 50 boxes on average.
The karma these boxes return are less than the costs (which is 4500) so it will allow you to move some of the karma. In general 280k gets you about half the karma you can then add to another character.
As Mercury said you will also get unidenfityable objects and cores/lodestones which you can sell. 280k karma will probably yield in the neigborhood of 4-8 gold in valuables (depending on the RNG gods).
For me it is usually the two veteran acolytes that give the trouble. When you attack them they keep summoning hordes of undead. Once you defeated the acolyte all summoned adds will disappear. Making them the first priority before any other usually helps me finish this mission without too much trouble.
With our guild we don’t pre scout. We simply activate the bounty, the mission leader sends groups of people to between 2 and 4 waypoints along the routes. We usually find all bounties well within the time limit. Sometimes we do not succeed at finding or killing them but then we simply go again. From the way people react on team speak it is pretty obvious that we all enjoy it, I most certainly do.
You can craft master items at crafting level 50. The have (master) behind the name. Crafting inscriptions will also count for the monthly.
If you click on the gear icon in the right top hand corner you can send collectibles to your bank. That way you don’t lose them and free up space. You can access your bank in any of the major cities as well as from crafting stations.
You can also buy or craft larger bags.
The grateful merchant is probably someone tied to an event. There are certain merchants which are only available for a limited time after an event (i.e. the karma merchants in Orr).
The only area in the Sea of Sorrow you can reach at the moment is Southsun Cove. To get there you need to go to Lion’s Arch, there is a transport agent near Sanctum Harbor (ship icon on the map).
Each rare gives you a possible 3 the mystic kit has a 25% recovery rate, on average this should give you 3 ecto’s for 4 salvaged rares. Black lion kit has 50% recovery, which should give you 1.5 ecto’s per rare.
Magic find should not affect salvaging according to the wiki.
No the map chat is for the current map only.
Yes, after you select a home server when you create your account there is a week of cooldown. Usually week nights or earlier morning is the best time to get onto a full server.
Laptops can run WvW just fine one max settings without any noticeable drop on frame rate. However this will be a better that average laptop with associated pricing. I have an i7 mobile quad core with a ATI 7970.
If you want to play WvW at a cheaper model make sure you don’t cheap up on the CPU as stated before CPU is most important for proper play. You can trade of some of the graphics quality without really losing the experience.
I found that for most classes I started getting the hang of them at level 40.
Your description of the classes are right, enigneer has more versatility you can do control, support and still do decent damage. Necro is hard to kill but I have not yet played one.
From what I read and experienced it is about an half hour before the drop rate starts to diminish if you stay in the same explorable area. A different area (even in the same zone) should have no dr until you stay there for a while. If you stay out of the zone the dr drops off again. So if you move around a zone dr should not affect you.
Repeating the same event will lower the reward on the third run. I think this does not apply to chains, but I have not really looked at rewards that specific.
The DR which (is supposed to) reset at 0:00 utc is the one on dungeons. This kicks in if you run the same path multiple times.
If you are overrun by a zerg you die in seconds, for that class does not matter. As for what class you want for WvW depends as much on your playstyle as any other part of the game. For all classes you have to runwith it for a bit to discover what the best way is to play that role.
If you like melee a class such as guardian (or thief) usually does well on hit and retreat. If you want to go more ranged enigneer or mesmer (or ele).
I have had this happen occasionally to. Somes times the option Join in Overflow does not appear. In that case it usually is best to have the entire party rezone, just hop out to the closest map and then back. This worked for me every time.
On the other hand a level 15 doing a level 5 fractals still has a chance at ascemded 1
rings see the quote in Svetli’s post.
But even with this a level 1 can join any level 1-10 group making it easier to find a group. I don’t think the intention is to have level 1 fractal players join a level 50 group.
According to the wiki Defiant grants the boss immunity from control effects. With blind being a condition it should effect the boss like it normally would unless the boss also has other immunities (like the dredge which are immune to blind)
For more info http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defiant
Fractals are content which is supposed to be chalenging to level 80 players. That is once you get to a higher ‘fractal level’. When you enter you are scaled up to level 80 so depending on your (parties) skill level you should be able to manange just fine. Level 30 is a good level to start as you have all skill slots unlocked, but you don’t have all trait points yet.
You do need a group of 5 players but depending on the fractal which is selected by the system you can complete them with less. As stated before some fractals require at least 2 or 3 players because.
A guide on fractals is available on http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractals.
Salvaging a rare items of level 68 or higher can give you ecto’s below that you only get basic crafting materials and a change to get the runes back. I don’t think the basic crafting materials will add up to 3G or even close.
With the ecto’s you would at least need 10 to cover the 3G (current price approx 30s). With 6 armor pieces with a chance of 0-3 ecto’s you have a change a 18 at the most. If you use a Black Lion Salvage kit you have a 50% change to get the ecto’s, this would mean you are most likely to get some where close to 9 but could also get 0 or 18 or any number in between. Using any other kit would lower the number of ecto’s and would make it unlikely you will cover the cost.
So there is a chance you can cover the costs but it is still a gamble.
The name “Guild wars” is a reference to a part of the lore.
On the other hand a guild does not do much unless there are some active members. I am in an active guild. But in the notes on upcoming feature https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-on-guild-wars-2-in-the-months-ahead/ there is mention of some guild specific features.
My guess would be no, that would be to easy. It was mentioned that precursors would become available through other means but nothing more specific yet.
I agree that support in both control as well as boons on your allies should be should be rewarded equally to just doing damage. But granting a reward for just tagging someone is what I would think is the best solution. Based on what I have seen loot is based on the amount of damage you do to an individual enemy. With aoe damage you typically hit the damage threshold for multiple foes as opposed to a single target attack.
Siege equipment will once build remain available for anyone to use. It does have a 30 minute despawn timer, this can be rest by using the siege.
Supplies cannot be transferred from character to character, you need to make sure there is at least one camp you own, as capping one can be done a few players this should not be a problem.
When an upgrades is bought it stays one the object until it is captured. Just make sure your night team has the gold to buy upgrades.
With regards to a small night crew being able to hold out, that depends on skill and numbers. 5 people can typically hold a keep or tower against a larger group but holding two tower against two groups of ten becomes more difficult. It is typically more about spreading your resources and hold what is important.
You can use http://mos.millenium.org/matchups this has the current ranking (including which color) the server currently has. It also lists the current income, if you choose a server with a high income it is very likely the hold at least there own areas and some of their opponents. approx 230 usually means majority of their own borderland + own EB sections. 400+usually means stone mist, complete own border land and EB section + some misc other areas.
Wheter or not you get loot is independent from MF. Based on what I have read it depends on how much damage you do if this is above a enemy type specific threshold you get a roll on the loot table.
The loot tables (enemy specific) are divided in different categories ranging from junk to exotics (including pre-cursors) with no magic find chance you have a change of 1 in X to get items from a certain category where X is difference for each category. Having 100% MF will give you a chance of 2 in X (see http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magic_find). Note that it is possible that loot tables may contain entries granting 2 or more items as a single row.
Based on this you MF increase the chance to get a higher category of loot after it has been (independently) decided that you will get loot. So I would say B is correct with a minor correction the percentage is not only dependent on your MF. As loot tables differ some tables may only contain junk or low level items so MF will not improve the rarity of these.
I play an ele and rarely die and I am not even using a bunker build. Ele is not suposed to be at the front line just run in drop some aoe and get back to cleanse and run some support. Glass canon ele do have low health and die easily but that is their trade off, if you run with that build you should run, hit someone and get out of the fray before they put control on you
Its stuck without the ice wall on gunars hold now aswell
It definitely affects your own healing skill and regeneration boons. On the wiki it says “improves all healing performed by the character” to me that would indicate any regeneration boon you put on others will also be affected by your healing power.
Its a trade off you have to make. A glass canon build is one extreme and the other a bunker build. Using all stat items lie in the middle. As Thereon suggests it is more about what you want. If you feel your to breakable add some toughness and/or vitality. On the other end use power/precision/crit for direct damage. Or go for condition damage and power.
Your play style is also a part of this, if you are good at dodging and have a reasonable amount of cleansing ability defense is of less concern and you can add some more offense.
Choosing a specific stat and getting all upgrades/items for that will give you a high capability there at the cost of the others. All stat items give you an average overall. It is mainly a mater of choosing that stats that fit your character and play style.
On my staff elementalist I have a toughness power mix giving me good survivability in WvW against any class while still being able to do good damage. In that build condition damage, precision and crit damage are not as usefull.
There are some near Caer Astoria waypoint in caledon. I guess each starter area has them some where and I have seen them along the way in different zones, cann’t recall any other locations of the top of my head.
Runes typically give you high values on one or two stats and maybe some additional benefit. doubloons, jewels, crests give you three stats. Also for maximum benifit you need atleast 5 of any superior runes. With other upgrades you can mix and match without losing out.
Maxing all 8 crafting profession will get you to level 80 in a few hours but this will take up a lot of gold. And as Yargesh notes some skill points would be usefull, leveling alone only gives you 80 which may be be a few short to get all the skills you want.
Besides crafting exploration is something that gives you good exp. Just run around the map ignoring mobs and hearts. Take all the waypoints and POIs this should give some good experience. While doing this stopping at a few skill points will help you in both skill points and experience.
If you run into any events do a bit there as well as they also give you experience.
Based on the current average market prices salvaging rares using a blc kit gives you 1.5 ecto on average not counting the sigil/rune this will give you a profit most of the time. With the 25% vendor kit you only get .75 ecto’s per item which generally means a loss, for exotics the sigil/rune makes all the difference as this may allow you to get most of your gold back on their own.
In short salvaging ecto’s can be profitable with a blc kit or if your are able to buy the items cheaper and sell them higher than current market prices.
More people. The healing phase is part of the event to prevent the heal you need to kill the acolytes as fast as possible. From the runs I have done I think you would at leat need ten or more.
Temple events are group events that require more effort/people than other event types, this is intended.
I agree larger DE would make the world more interesting. As suggested something like the take over of a human settlement would make things feel more alive. As for it actually being build that would be great to see and experience but as for feasibility that is something different. Creating a full action of actually building a city running for even an hour would take al lot of time.
For what I have seen each dolyaks has a specific routes. Two departing form each camp there is 1 for each tower, 2 for most keeps and 6 for SM. Capping a camp in EB in the green section does not help towers in the red or blue corners.
Using Mesmer portals on their own is not bannable. Hiding in a tower and getting a group in through a portal is a valid tactic. If the mesmer using a hack to get into the tower that is another mater.
I know that when you transmute a legendary skin onto an (exotic) item it loses its legendary status. The status comes from the stats item. So if they upgrade legendries there is no telling if transmuted items will be upgraded as well.
There are only a few back items available. There are a few that drop from one of the dungeons and you can craft ascended back items.
Let me guess your on RoS or GH. Just wait for Saturday this is when the new matchup is done. Depending on who the new opponents are either switch at that point to who ever has stone mist or try to cap stone mist with your server.
I have done some checking; salvaging and recording the result. Basically the result came down exactly to what the kit said. Using a BLC kit I got approx 50% of the potential ecto’s. This would be like getting 150 ecto’s out of 100 exotics (which has max 3) Which is exactly what the kit says. I also tried a vendor salve kit which has 25% recovery. I got approx 22% of the potential ecto’s while salviging rare items.
The number are pretty consistent on my trials.
Logically each of the 3 globs of ectoplasm a rare item has a 50% chance of dropping. With 3 positions with 2 choice there are 8 possible outcomes. 3 possibilities of 1 dropping, 3 for 2 dropping, 1 for none and 1 for three dropping. Totalling would make this
13% for 0
38% for 1
38% for 2
13% for 3
Based on my own salvage rates this does not feel right, it feels closer to 25% alround. But I don’t have any reasonable sample set to check this one. As suggested above a set of 1000 would. Be a good start to see a trend.
I have done some WvW in the past week with the new culling configuration and in my experience it was beter. I have seen several medium sized battles (30+ vs 30+) and was able to get a good view of enemies from the moment I walked into an area and saw incomming zergs. Before the trial change it would take 10 seconds or more before a battle would become visible. We also ran in to some stealthing thieves and they did not stay hidden excessively long, but before the change I never directly noticed issues with this before but that could be because the just stayed hiiden. I didn’t notice any detrimental effects during the test.
So I would like to see the changed configuration to come back.
Only transmuting will result in the new item nolonger having the ladgendary status. This is because the status of transmutated item is taken from whatever you use in the stats slot making it an exotic.
Sigils do not do this
The event page https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/december-2012/ shows it starts in a new city at 10PST.
If you have missed one you can still do them once tixx arrives in lion’s arch
I play with an ele in both pve and wvw (spvp is not really my thing). While leveling it did take me some time to understand the ele class and get some necessary traits. At about level 40 it started getting easier. For the ele class a lot of survivability comes from traits. At level 80 I can easily take on multiple groups, but you have to combine damage with crowd control. For wvw I do more support than damage, but still get a decent amount of kills while only rarely getting downed.
Currently this is my favorite.
The fastest leveling is done by crafting but this takes up massive amounts of gold.
For most XP events and hearts are the best. If you have completed your racial 1-30 levels have a go at the other race areas (use the asura portal in your home town).
Atm you can get a lot of XP from the tixx dugeon (part of the wintersday event) this gives you about 60% of a level but can only be done once a day.
That would solve it. Thanks Dinny
After you jump in and get to the platform with the kids and gingerbread men there is a chest.