Guild Wars 2

Wein.4952:

Last i check, using buy orders to purchase all materials needed cost a little under 40g.

Now times that by 6 since you need 1 per armor piece, and 1 Inscription per weapon too.

All because of the lilly drop rates. Glad I don’t want this stat but it sucks for anyone who does.

I’ve always been on AG. I’m a casual WvW’er because of other ingame stuff I like to do, but also the amount of time I can play now.
It’s been very quiet in WvW. It’s rare to have something of a zerg in EBG (flipping paper of course), but as I enjoy just roaming, flipping home objectives, assisting in upgrading/seiging/defending and repairing structures and calling out for defense, it’s difficult to get the help. Most mornings I can play our fire/air keeps atleast had been captured. If not 80% of the rest of the map.
One time our Fire keep was 15 yaks from t3, under attack from a group of about 8. I can’t defend against that on my lonesome so called in team for a bit of help. 3 people turned up. We successfully defended with a bit of strategy and cunning, but it could have easily gone south.

I don’t want to transfer off AG. It is my home. I don’t want to add to the matchup imbalance of transferring to another server. I also want to be able to play with my AG homed guild members that maybe can’t afford to transfer all the time.

It’s really sad we don’t have the numbers anymore, just a few small guilds and countless roamers are left.

Just my two-pennies from an Aurora Glade loyalist. Atleast I still have Edge of The Mists.

I personally love the DBL. It’s refreshing to not play on snow scenery and the multilevel of the fire keep is really nice.

I think regardless of this quote or that quote of who said what and when, why not create a third boderland map? It would add more variety and a bit more depth to WvW. This way RBG could be rotated weekly on the 3 maps at random.

Ego.4961:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Xetu.7341:

I really want that outfit too. They should just add it. Makes them even more money.

I think it’s an exceptionally bad idea to ask for a company to take an item that is an ingame reward or purchase and change it to a gemstore purchase. What next? What other thing will they remove from the game and make people pay for it?

No…no it isn’t a bad idea. ANYTHING that brings in revenue for them but does not give players a significant advantage is an amazing idea.

People that are usually against this are also the ones that usually don’t support the game via in-game purchases because they feel that the company is somehow cheating them.

Also…./signed please let me buy this outfit Anet.

It would be a really bad idea to turn any item you can buy in game, let alone one for something as measly as 3 Candy Corn Cobs into a gemstore item. Just wait for Halloween.

This list will tell you exactly which provisioner requires which crafted items.

Desyncing can happen even without consistent high latency, but usually involves a sudden spike and drop of ping at an inopportune moment. It’s noticable in PvP too when finishing or ressing people.

ArchonWing.9480:

I think all XP boosters need to be modded to give at least a WXP gain, as there is acutally no XP gain in WvW. Reward tracks should be a standard too, to be consistent with the XP booster.

XP booster grants experience gain in all game modes, it includes WXP.
“A new Experience Booster is now available that grants 50% additional experience from all sources and game types, including WvW and PvP reward tracks, and gives a killstreak bonus on enemy NPCs.” – Patch Notes.
XP Booster Wiki

Agree with OP, it needs correcting. Pretty sure the lack of WvW track boost is a bug, but definitely an oversight.

Support links still loops redirect on ‘Trouble logging in? Reset Password’ clicking ‘Sign in’ does not do anything, and sometimes, just outright refuses to load the page.
“When Google Chrome tried to connect to en.support.guildwars2.com this time, the website sent back unusual and incorrect credentials. "

Thank you for the update!

I get the same error from the main gw2 page as I do from other support links throughout the gw2 pages, because it leads to the same broken page.

I wish they would fix it so I can finally submit my ticket…

Brickfoot.8517:

I have a similar, but worse issue. (bump)

In the Mystic Forge I can select the Bo (also Marauder’s), Ectos, and Zerker’s inscription, but not the Eldritch Scroll.

Double mats are better than unwanted stats.

That’s because you don’t use Eldritch Scrolls to stat change in the forge. You should be using Anthology of Heroes.

Rawr.9467:

Haleydawn.3764:

I’m also a player who works full time, but I’ve just finished Nevermore IV, off my own back and not through gem purchases. I still need about 1000g to finish it. With my game time, I’d say about a month and it’ll be finished.

^ This. I just finished Chuka and Champawat IV myself. I work full time and enjoy the game for a couple of hours a day. I should have the Legendary within the next few weeks.

This entitled whining is incredibly irritating.

Gz! I have Chuka, it’s an amazing shortbow and the story is heartbreaking.

That’s luck.

Some players don’t fork out rl money to make themselves nice shinies. Some of us play and slowly accumulate gold, and make shinies.

Nothing to be fixed here.

I wish we had more seasonal content, the Queens Guantlet and Dragon Bashh definitely need to come back.
Meatoberfest could also be a thing, mid-September to mid-October. These would definitely fluff the calendar out.
There should also be a 7 day event, every 2 months, to earn tokens for items which could be built upon a lot with old (currently unobtainable) items aswell as new ones, that varies each time the event is up.

You should still be able to click the bar to change pets, the lynx artwork is just covering the corner.
*Edit: Just tested, bar is still interact-able, there is no bug here.

Can confirm for Auric Basin Mushroom too, the countdown for it fleeing does not disappear, no matter how much you hit the thing, so it ends up fleeing after 10 seconds.

Also, if you do end up changing theses, for the love of the Gods, take the batteries out of all Job-o-Tron back packs. That may compensate for removing the sounds I love.

I made Quip for it’s current sound. I really enjoy it as is.

I’d be incredibily disappointed if a change was too drastic, let me RP being a Party Pirate on my thief in peace!. Why not create legendary sound profiles so people can just reduce that volume?

The Cattlepult, which has been killing cows since the game released, has not seen any attention, nor has the kicking of chickens in Bitterfrost Frontier for feathers and a title, but a magical fish is too far?

This whole thread is full of hypocrisy, and precisely why the fish shouldn’t be changed. You slaughter creatures ingame for you own gain.

You have to have another crude leather book in your inventory to gain the Tiger Training Guide. This is the book she wants and asks for in her previous dialogue, when you have the active Baby Book collection.
You ask her about teaching the cubs, she requests another book to note things down in, which becomes the Tiger Training Guide.

Could be to do with the 0.5 second arming time of the trap, essentially it’s an aftercast on all ranger traps (only ranger traps have this aftercast). So maybe that is blocking your weapon swap but it’s supposed to.

felincyriac.5981:

yh, you would think the ascended insig/inscription is required, but nop.

That would be ridiculous to assume, since the only difference to the stats in crafting the Ascended armor are the Exotic insignias used to make the Ascended insignias in the first place. That’s basically what you’re swapping.

Always check the wiki.

Konakona.4130:

Haleydawn.3764:

The Exotic ‘gear’ you buy for Ascended shards of glory are only skins you apply, not pieces of armor…

No, you can buy real ascended armor for ascended shards of glory + crafted marks; or you can buy that skins for “pure” ascended shards.

I’m well aware you can buy eithe ascended armor and Exotic apply-able skins.
The OPs original post (which was handily deleted…) stated he wanted to buy the exotic gear for PvE, which doesn’t exist, since they’re just skins.
Do people not read anymore

Ascended stat swap is currently for weapons and armor only.
You can easily farm the new LS3 maps for trinkets and back items, which you can select all HoT stats on.

Sykper.6583:

Astralporing.1957:

Tibicia.8315:

I saw it for the first time, tonight, and was horrified. I then spent two hours trying to decide if I would say anything or consider not playing the game for the next few weeks while this current fad wears off.
It may be pixels, but then why not make a mini of kittens being drowned in bag?

Did you try to take a swim with a kitten minipet?
If you did, you are a horrible person.

PS: i also don’t remember what the problem with the plane joke was. Anyone can enlighten me?

For some strange reason, maybe my memory is fuzzy here, people got offended by the arms forming a plane and the player character making funny silly sounds because it was offended to actual ‘mentally-impaired’ people?

I feel like there was a thread talking about it.

Iirc, It was because of a plane crash prior to this April fools prank, people thought it was in bad taste, even though the coding was done well before the incident occured.

The Exotic ‘gear’ you buy for Ascended shards of glory are only skins you apply, not pieces of armor…

The dungeon reward tracks will give you exotic armor/weapons and tokens to buy from the dungeon vendor, the Ascended PvP set is a medium term goal, while I think the Asc shard gain is abysmal now. It lengthens your time in PvP to get the skins.

What I don’t get, is basically everyone collects a menagerie of wild animals and humans (Slavery?) yet don’t find that at all offensive.

So, we’ve already covered the fact the fish isn’t dying, due to it being magic, and not bloody real, we should also note that if you don’t like this mini, just don’t buy it.

Put in a request for another mini fish in a bubble, by all means, but don’t change something people have already bought and find funny. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it should be altered, just go about your usual business.

“(we had to fix a lot of stuff that breaks as the engine evolves and improves) and make sure SAB has a great, regular home in Guild Wars 2. As a yearly festival, SAB will now be a dependable fixture in Tyria, and that makes us very happy. " ~Last years release page

Sarpan.9074:

You could befriend an artificer and ask him/her to make you this – https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Potion_of_Ascalonian_Mages

That’s not even similar. The effect the OP mentions lets you keep your characters look, but be ghost like. Strawberry Ghost gives a chance, Omnomberry Ghost is guaranteed.

Love the recipe suggestions IWN. I’d make the infusion for this effect for sure.

I used to PvP a lot a couple years ago, I’d never leave HoTM, it was just far more balanced back then and more fun, I can’t quite put my finger on it. It could be that I don’t PvP as much now due to community, behaviour of, believe it or not, new players that think they’re the kitten.

I participated in Seasons 2 and 3 heavily to get The Ascension, and casually in Seasons 4 and 5. I’m not a fan of Stronghold, it’s a PvE arms race, and conquest has gotten extremely dull for me, that I can’t bare to play more than 1-3 matches before going back to PvE/WvW.

I’d be back in a shot if 2v2, 3v3 random soloque arenas were added, along with new 5v5 game types, like capture the flag and time trial defense (like Strand of the Ancients in WoW)

Offair.2563:

This is what Anet spends time on instead of fixing real stuff.

Different teams work on gemstore releases and game design/programming…

Now, I’m not a mini collector, so I wouldn’t buy this item purely because of that. It’s not what I would choose to spend my money/gold on.

This mini, I find hilarious. It’s just my sense of humour though, similar sort of humour line of the Monty Python fish slapping dance. (You can watch that here)
I don’t believe the fish is dying, because it’s a magic fish, as stated in it’s description, it also apparently swims normally in water.

All these comments about finding a dying fish funny is just ridiculous given we slaughter lots and lots of creatures in this game for loot. Very hypocritical imo.

Firm believer of ‘if you don’t like it, ignore it’. you don’t have to buy it.

I’ve asked about this set a couple of times the last few months. ( here ) Includes link to my other previous post and seemingly last correspondance about this set.
I like certain pieces of each set, not the entire sets tbt.

I think, unless elements of Legendary stories are found in game, most lore behind them is up for interpretation. That’s probably why it keeps getting removed, it is your story, not a factual one, and placing it on the Eternity wiki is definitely not a good platform for it.

I, personally find it farfetched. It doesn’t even mention the Gatekeeper of Arah wielding Eternity.

The Flameseeker Prophecies, being one that, in-game, has real lore behind it.

The greatsword skill 5 ‘Grasping Darkness’ doesn’t work correctly.
Most skills when used when you have something targeted, will autorotate your character to enable the action, Grasping Darkness gives a message stating no line of sight when facing away from enemies while casting

Michael.9403:

Haleydawn.3764:

When you learned the inscription recipe, you click that in your crafting list to show you your components in the main window, above that you have your inscription icon and it’s name next to it, you hover over that icon and it says ‘Account Bound’.

I see. Had I even a clue that exotics could not be transferred, I might have done that. I’ve crafted since the beginning, and ran up to 500 when ascended came out. Everything exotic could be transferred, and I made stuff for friends a lot. Never hit the issue.

This is probably the first time in years I’ve crafted exotics other than for myself, and I didn’t know. Now that I do know, I can’t fit any game theory to why some exotics can be transferred and some cannot. It’s like some mid level dev at ANET went off on a tangent about the time they started introducing new combos, and nobody was/is in charge of the overall game consistency.

Is there some good gaming rationale for some exotics being account bound and some not that I’m missing?

It’s to either; encourage people to gather the mats themselves (Celestial) and/or encourage people to buy the expansion (HoT quad-stat items.)

Now, your first mistake was assuming all crafting followed the core games stats of crafting. Your second was not researching new stat sets.
I don’t see account binding certain things as a problem, because it adds value to it outside of the TP.

Unless your friend buys HoT to Craft these stats himself, he could mix match some Beserkers and Valkyries to get similar stat values.

Michael.9403:

Haleydawn.3764:

You can hover over items before you craft them in the crafting panel, which will tell you if it’s account bound or not.

Thanks for the tip. I’m unsure how to use it, however.

Since I had to discover both the marauder recipes, how was I supposed to hover it?

Now that I have the recipe, when I hover over it, it does say account bound.

So I’m back to the question of how I learn it’s going to be account bound before I make one?

When you learned the inscription recipe, you click that in your crafting list to show you your components in the main window, above that you have your inscription icon and it’s name next to it, you hover over that icon and it says ‘Account Bound’.

You can hover over items before you craft them in the crafting panel, which will tell you if it’s account bound or not.

On the wiki there’s also a handy little window (top right) or column in the table, which will either tell you the Trading Post prices, or it will say Account Bound.

Iirc, ‘The Real Raiders of Tyria’ was added because there was an exploit way to get ‘Greeted as Liberators’ with little to no effort. Since the title couldn’t be removed outright, because some earned it legitimatly, they added the new one.

So you’ll have to do them all again to complete The Real Raiders of Tyria.

I have all professions, but I’ll make comments on the ones I play regularly and effectively at. I prefer power builds because I find them more fun than condispamming everything.

I can agree on somethings, mesmers illusions and phantasms for one. They also have no real DPS build that competes with other professions at all. Lacklustre outside of boon-popping fractal/raids.

Engineers also don’t have a great power build in comparison to their condition build (I play power scrapper because it’s hilarious, but it’s too weak to take anywhere outside of openworld PvE)

Situational damage increases for power necro also. They can’t compare to other professions either until foes reach <50% HP, then they’re still mediocre, it’s just reaching that 50%, for openworld PvE (Where kill speed doesnt matter much) Necros with their high health pool is great. The lack of group utility in a power build also leaves them behind in the dust. A rework to Vampiric Prescence could really change the dynamic imo.

Thief is in an ok spot right now, but I feel sword needs a bit of love.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It’s at least inconsistent with what ANet has done with other bits of crafting. I hope that they didn’t intend to require multiple disciplines for each mark.

Doubt it’s intended. Remember when they changed insignias to require leather, which Armorsmiths couldn’t refine? Leather refinement was quickly added to the craft.
Another half baked change, while neccessary, wasn’t thought through properly.

Similar with Tailor marks, they require the metals which they are unable to refine/craft.

This thread is pretty old…

But, if you use the /stuck command, it will port you to the start of the instance without wiping your progress in it.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Haleydawn.3764:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_back_item#Back_items_with_selectable_prefixes

Simple as visiting a vendor for quad stat pieces.

You have to farm the currency for the particular map the vendor is in, too.

Of course the catch is the Unbound Magic, but that can now be farmed in 4 maps, making getting ascended trinkets a breeze now.
The other parts of currency are easy enough to obtain.

Getting Ascended trinkets is now very easy to do.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_back_item#Back_items_with_selectable_prefixes

Simple as visiting a vendor for quad stat pieces.

I can agree with being able to stat swap backitems, rings and accessories, but with the vast availability (and relative cheapness) of them, there’s no need.

Well, backpacks and other Ascended items are split for Core and HoT.
This backback is a Core backpack, released before Sinister/Nomads stats.

If you made it for the skin, you got the skin, if you made for a certain stat that it doesn’t have, that mistake is on you really.

As someone who had done this instance relative soon after HoT released, and as recently as last week, I can understand some people do bug out/glitch/story stops progression etc (I had no such issues at all, either way) my only proposal would be to shorten some transitional cutscenes and make the buffs your allies give you in the finale more noticable, like floating text For example “Caithe has granted you Permanent Stability” and “Marjory protects you from Slow”.
Something like that would make it flow better.

Weird as it is, there’s a persisting bug in which people who world complete recieve a chest from Lake Doric (not the current one, an unreleased version of Lake Doric), containing 8001 XP and a transmutation charge or a black lion key. It is possible that this isn’t triggering for your character which could be stalling your 100% reward.

Instead of creating a new ticket, post your details here to get your issues chased up.

Good luck.