Your underwater aquabreather replaces your main helms stats and runes while you are submerged. So you need a matching rune in your aquabreather to benefit from the 6th bonus underwater.
Zojja’s Masque is the aquabreather. Therefore, the OP was indeed facing a bug issue.
Zojja’s Masque is the name of the Light Ascended Helm. The Aquabreather is named Zojja’s Cloth Breather, so I’m pretty sure my first reply is correct unless we get more info from the OP.
Your underwater aquabreather replaces your main helms stats and runes while you are submerged. So you need a matching rune in your aquabreather to benefit from the 6th bonus underwater.
Not a bug. Unfortunately. (I’m not a fan of the way the aquabreather works)
Skins like that back pack and Gemstore Armour purchases are free to apply on the first use only. After that you need the Transmutation charges to be able to change any skin over, with a few exceptions (Achievement point reward skins, HoM skins) we’ve always needed to use trasmutation to change skins, Anet changed the old stones (which destroyed one part of 2 items and combined the stats of the remaining one with the look of the other) to an account wide number with an accountwide wardrobe which stores skins you have earned to be used again though.
Outfits which are bought can be used whenever, these will be in your outfit tab and requires nothing except owning them to use them.
You can earn transmutation charges ingame in PvP/WvW tracks, map completion and PvP League play.
The backpack is a skin, not an item, you need to already have a back item equipped to use the skin.
Your hat should have been added to your wardrobe collection, in your Hero panels wardrobe tab, you have to click on one of your equipped items, to be able to view all possible skins you can use for that item. So if you click on your Head slot, you should see your cap in the list on the left. This description is clearly shown in your screenshot too. (you must already have items equipped to use the skins, aswell as have transmutation charges)
This would be the end of Power of the Mists buff. Most players don’t really notice the buff. Nor do they play WvW specifically for the buff, so it hasn’t served as an effective motivator for winning matches. It also tends to reward PvE players more than WvW players. The upside to removing the buff, for WvW players, is that it should help our case for further improving WvW rewards, because it’d be lowering the rewards entering the game from elsewhere.
This was 8 months ago. Not a mention of it since, but it sounds like they were going to readjust the buffs to reward active WvW players with them rather than passively give them to the server entirely. /shrug Who knows. We could see these buffs reworked into an active reward for your account if you participate in WvW regularly.
FYI it’s a lot more than “a few silver” difference over the course of a year.
Maybe so, but it’s not enough to encourage me to buy different kits for different uses, I’d rather just buy the kits I usually use and stick with it. I never struggle with gold so it’s kind of pointless saying I can save a bit more over the course of a year using different kits /shrug.
Personally, I can’t find any use for the silver-fed as long as I have mystic stones from which to make mystic kits. Those end up being cheaper for me. Outside of farming AB/ML + silverwastes non-stop with no time to visit a bank, it’s hard for me to imagine needing the convenience of silver-fed. 250 uses goes a long way.
I always run out of Mystic forge stones. Always. I’m not the sort of player to fuddle about and buy different kits either, for different rarities to save a few copper or 1-2 silver. I tried but it was inconvenient for me. I don’t want to have to think of which kit is best for which item, outside of Black Lion kits for certain Exotics with more valuable runes/sigils in them.
When timed right a thief can stomp near instantly with the Daredevil elite skill chain (Impact strike> Upper Cut> Finishing Blow). As it is a skillbar effect, quickness effects it too. As said, it has to be near perfect timing for a quick stomp, or with quickness applied.
Any profession that can apply stealth (or gain it from others for that matter) can stomp from stealth.
if you aren’t a pvp player it takes you ages to finish 1.
Funnily enough, this was intentional. Smh.
“The Ascension is designed to reward investment in PvP by any player and will require more than one season to complete. You don’t need to be the most skilled player to earn it, but highly skilled players will find that they can progress through the Path of the Ascension faster.” – Inro page
You can refine Mithril with Scribe.
What the OP seems to be doing is clicking Craft on the SuperRock Platform without the Mithril ingots, if you click the Magnifying glass next to the Mithril Ingot ingredient for the Super Rock, it’ll take you to Mithril Refinement automatically, if you are the relevant level in Scribe, of course.
RNG is RNG, it is one setting for all players, with the minute variable of Magic Find (Which doesn’t effect these sorts of drops) on certain loot tables from a small source (creatures, certain HoT containers – states on them if affected by magic find, lucky envelopes)
Just keep doing adventures. I guess I was lucky I only did three (for 9 chests) and got this collection done in 2 days.
:D so witch ones u did? … couse I am realy thinking of stop hunting that final piece … and i do know how RNG works … the “setup” thingy was ment sarcasticly … but compared to my guildies im realy realy unlucky XD
I did the easy ones (for me anyway), leyline run, scrap pit and bugs in the branches. Just keep trying, it does drop.
RNG is RNG, it is one setting for all players, with the minute variable of Magic Find (Which doesn’t effect these sorts of drops) on certain loot tables from a small source (creatures, certain HoT containers – states on them if affected by magic find, lucky envelopes)
Just keep doing adventures. I guess I was lucky I only did three (for 9 chests) and got this collection done in 2 days.
You do not need ascended item stats to be competitive in sPvP.
All you need for sPvP is to have any rarity armor on to have your effective defense stat.
SPvP pulls it’s stats into the Amulet you select in your sPvP build window, that’s it.
WvW can still be competitive even wearing exotics, but there’s less room for failure. Ascended armor will hold stat boosting infusions for WvW too, boosting offense/defense more.
The fastest way to get a full set of armor would be to craft it. This is the expensive route.
You can only get 1200 Asccended shards from PvP this season, so you can buy 5 armor pieces. (This armor can’t currently be stat swapped though, it is bugged)
do you defenders want it so nothing flips ever? I don’t get why you care to defend these towers/keeps that mean nothing. it’s like you built the tower from scratch.
Because WvW is about both defense and offense… Not flip wars like EoTM.
I agree with the OP tbh, it’s got to be counterable by a defense team, using offense means. My suggestion would be to add another projectile to Ballistas which pierce the bubble.
Anet already increased the cap from 1,000 to 2,000 in the hall iirc. Or Are you meaning the amount of decorations in a localised area? In which I could agree, it’s not essential imo.
MMR at the start of season is based on your MMR at last season. If you had MMR 2000 on last one then at the beginning of this you would have ( 2000 + 1200 )/2 + whatever you got from placement games.
Can you show me a quote/confirmation of this from Anet? Because I doubt that’s the case. They specifically said that everyone was reset for this season so it contradicts your statement.
Whatever the case, I agree the placement system is kittened up and needs to be looked into ASAP. I have a buddy who haven’t played since season 2, he tried the new season and got 5 wins and 5 losses in placement and placed something like 1550 and stopped playing. I’ve been been playing non-stop, legend every season – I now have 40 games won out of 60 played and still can’t catch up to my buddy. Go figure.
“every season will start with a soft reset of the previous season’s rating”
You may have been Legend in previous season, but it doesn’t mean your MMR was good. Last 4 seasons were grind to win.
After an internal review, we’ve decided that awarding points for achievements that are this exclusive goes against the intent and spirit of our achievement system. We’ll be removing the points on these in a future release.
I am incredibly disappointed with that. You’ve basically told players that getting into the top 250 is not an achievement worthy of any points. I’m saddened it seems you wont be removing the points from previous Legendary titles to align with this new decision.
The Achievement system should be to display what people achieve in game, I’d say top 250 is a great one.
100% agree. It’s not fun for themselves let alone the team they’re put with.
I’m not a pure PvP player, I have around 2k game played. I started in Gold tier one, I’ve progressed to t3, now hovering around the 1630 rating. Does it bother me? No, I most likely belong here right now, it would be nice to get a bit higher but I have more things to do than sit and PvP all day every day.
It’s not that hard actually. Just try it. To point that out, I am probably something above average but by far not the best Jumper out there and I have never ever seen any snoflake melt under my feet. That just happens if you are super slow and there is no need to be slow, just jump straight to the next snowflake.
Also, I like if some kind of achievement (take it literally: achievement, you achieve something) is needed to make something. It is a fluff item, not needed.
I’m guessing you didn’t read my post.
For clarity. I have tried this JP time and time again.
For the last four years.
I have NEVER, NOT ONCE, EVER, GOT PAST THE MELTING SNOWFLAKES.
For the record, I have completed MAYBE HALF of the in game JP’s. And in most cases had help from friends or other players (Mesmers) to allow completion.
And that is why this sort of gating SHOULD NOT EXIST. SHOULD NOT HAPPEN.
Not everyone is good at jumping puzzles. I think the best example I can use here is Mike Jordan. I’m sure you’ve heard of him. If you’re over 30, anyway.
My point being is MJ was a Basketball God. He was the MAN. BUT… guess what? When he tried to play PRO BASEBALL… NNNNNnEEEEPPppTTTT!!! WRONG ANSWER!! EPIC FAIL!
So… anyone can play the game. But there’s only, what, a few hundred guys that compete at the world level for PvP? There are Three or four servers that DOMINATE WvW? ARE YOU GETTING THE POINT?
I hope so. And I REALLY, REALLY HOPE THAT THE DEVS DO TOO.
For ME, and MANY others, the WD JP is just not doable. And that Gate should be REMOVED from WP. It is the ONLY collection that I am CURRENTLY aware of that has such a thing.
nuff said.
I don’t like Toypocolypse, Bell Choir or Snowball Mayhem, but I don’t think those requirements should be removed from Winter’s Presence acquisition. I’ll just have to grin and bare it and try and get the Snowball wins and Bell Choir done. If I don’t, oh well. It’s not pertinent to obtain this skin at all, if you want it, you’ll do the requirements like everyone else.
I’m perplexed. Why are you even playing GW? You can’t do open world combat? Really? You don’t PvP? Really?
Because THAT’s what Toyocolypse is. Open world w/ altered weapons. Because that’s what Snowball Mayhem is… PvP w/ altered powers.
You’re saying YOU CAN’T EVEN DO MAIN CONTENT, and you have the NERVE to comment ON MY HATRED OF JUMPING PUZZLES?
Dude. So WRONG. I agree that the Choir is annoying.. but doable. UNLIKE the JP.
The adjusted weapons are precisely the reason I don’t like them. They’re clunky, slow and sometimes a bit laggy, as is bell choir. I don’t hate them, just not fond of it.
I’m an avid PvP/WvW’er. But I generally play a bit of everything. Just because you seem to think you can’t do a pretty easy jumping puzzle doesn’t mean It’s not doable.
I actually find your argument for removing it funny. Because your only argument is that you can’t do it. That’s it.
It’s not that hard actually. Just try it. To point that out, I am probably something above average but by far not the best Jumper out there and I have never ever seen any snoflake melt under my feet. That just happens if you are super slow and there is no need to be slow, just jump straight to the next snowflake.
Also, I like if some kind of achievement (take it literally: achievement, you achieve something) is needed to make something. It is a fluff item, not needed.
I’m guessing you didn’t read my post.
For clarity. I have tried this JP time and time again.
For the last four years.
I have NEVER, NOT ONCE, EVER, GOT PAST THE MELTING SNOWFLAKES.
For the record, I have completed MAYBE HALF of the in game JP’s. And in most cases had help from friends or other players (Mesmers) to allow completion.
And that is why this sort of gating SHOULD NOT EXIST. SHOULD NOT HAPPEN.
Not everyone is good at jumping puzzles. I think the best example I can use here is Mike Jordan. I’m sure you’ve heard of him. If you’re over 30, anyway.
My point being is MJ was a Basketball God. He was the MAN. BUT… guess what? When he tried to play PRO BASEBALL… NNNNNnEEEEPPppTTTT!!! WRONG ANSWER!! EPIC FAIL!
So… anyone can play the game. But there’s only, what, a few hundred guys that compete at the world level for PvP? There are Three or four servers that DOMINATE WvW? ARE YOU GETTING THE POINT?
I hope so. And I REALLY, REALLY HOPE THAT THE DEVS DO TOO.
For ME, and MANY others, the WD JP is just not doable. And that Gate should be REMOVED from WP. It is the ONLY collection that I am CURRENTLY aware of that has such a thing.
nuff said.
I don’t like Toypocolypse, Bell Choir or Snowball Mayhem, but I don’t think those requirements should be removed from Winter’s Presence acquisition. I’ll just have to grin and bare it and try and get the Snowball wins and Bell Choir done. If I don’t, oh well. It’s not pertinent to obtain this skin at all, if you want it, you’ll do the requirements like everyone else.
Not quite exact. You buy clothing, you have the clothing. What a transmutation charge is is more correct to ANOTHER item of the SAME look. Like buying 2 of one shirt.
But you already own the “looks”. Like owning a mattress and owning several sets of sheets. Why should I pay to change the sheets?
Because you’re confusing the two. Think more as your character is the mattress in this scenario. If your character is the mattress, your armor is the sheet. You have only 1 sheet (set of armor) and it is striped. You want a different style one, something with clouds. You have an option of buying another sheet (a second set of armor) that already looks it, or change your current sheet (main armor set) by drawing on it (TC).
What you used as the mattress is the armor, and the skin as the sheet. Now yes, this form would be very nice. But then you’re suggesting free skin changes at will, which I believe was the outfits being put in. I just carry two sheets when I want to change my mattress. Bag space is more limited, but that’s my choice for more looks.
Now, I wouldn’t mind being able to earn more TC for current price, or less price for current amount. However, since most players are normally overflowing with TC, I don’t see that happening soon.
I don’t care whether you are talking about changing the look on the character or changing the look of an item. In either case I have already purchased or gained through play all of the skins I am using. If I have already gained the skins, I should be able to use them at will. I don’t understand why I am being taxed to use the skins I have already earned.
You buy an one time use of the skin, BUT can reuse it when you got extra transmutations, look at it that way – and how hoften do you change skills that you don’t have enough? Every day??
Why should it matter how someone chooses to change skins? The feature should be universal for everyone regardless. All I’ve heard from players who have opposed the idea of changing the TC system, is that it can be dealt with, but I haven’t heard any good reasons for how it benefits players or how a better system would be worse?
What exactly are you losing by TC’s being taken out? Is getting TC’s your endgame? Or do you prefer doing extra work? I’m sorry, but I see less sense in those opposing than I do in those who actually want to make it better.
Djinn is right, there is no need for the “tax” of a TC when the work has already been done. I rather spend my time getting more skins than getting the ability to change my skins. And if you disagree, that’s your choice, but there is no wrong in improving the game for players that feel it needs improvement. There is something wrong with players trying to prevent the game from improving just because it’s not a benefit to them.
I kind of agree that having Transmutation charges are, dated practices. I also agree that the way we change our characters clothing could be simplified. (outfit slots for our own predetermined armor/dye combinations)
I’d welcome being able to change stuff on whim for free. (some of us get this anyway, just playing the game) The last game I played with a Transmute system was WoW, where you had to visit a vendor to change items appearance, you also had to keep the original item in your inventory/void storage for it to still work (unsure if this has changed, I stopped playing it before Pandaland) I suppose the fact you can only do that in the one place for a gold cost is the tradeoff.
I like the fact I can unlock any skin on any character, regardless of if that character can equip it or not. I also like the fact that I can destroy said item, and it still be there in the Magical wardrobe, to be used anytime I choose. Transmutation Charges are the trade off for that convenience. There is a way to get a lot of them for very little time investment without paying IRL money for them. I suppose it might be considerate to suggest adding charges as map rewards to bring PvE acquisition in-line.
Gwaihir: I placed in Ruby last season (I just CBA to grind) but skipped the last few weeks of it. I was placed in Gold High t1 and after a few games are close to Platinum. I don’t personally think I’m Legendary tier, I’m just an avarage player, but I do think this system is a massive reality check for people.
There are 4 guaranteed ways to get Transmutation charges for ‘free’ (it will still cost time, obviously)
-WvW reward tracks.
-PvP League/Reward tracks.
-Map Completion.
-Login reward of 3/month.
The games I played always had a cost to Transmuting/Transmogrifying armor. Whether it’s a flat currency cost or a calculated currency cost. It serves as a sink, as does the gold>gem exchange here.
Now, I just do what I do (PvX), my characters are kitted out how I like them, only swapping out a few pieces when I feel like it, so I’m sat on 120ish Transmutation charges. I think someone in my guild has 900 or so.
They are insanely easy to get for ‘free’. So why are you here when you can get them for free? They’re a gemstore item because it does earn income from people who want them instantly.
To be honest, they could probably remove them from the store and most people wouldn’t bat an eyelid because they do what I do and gain them elsewhere without realising it.
How do you know that they aren’t planning to add Ascended gear as a WvW reward?
I really hope they do given the discussion about it in the WvW forums, since ascended gear effects mainly Raids, Fractals and WvW, you can only earn the gear in two of those modes without crafting.
I like the fact I can save to finish my 5th ascended set in PvP, I’ve got a few boxes laying around from Fractals, after having crafted my first 3 sets. It would be a great addition to WvW to buy it with Heroics/Memories and badges of honor.
That’s one of the reasons I enjoy being a PvX player, I just wish WvW was treated fairly and consistently like the other game modes. Maybe Anet does have plans for it. It sure would be nice to know for definite though.
More proof that the dishonor system is an unnecessary useless function that should go away.
It’s far from this. When it was removed, players begged for it to be reinstated because there was no punishment for afk, or DC’s.
Regardless of whether it’s your fault or not, you more then likely result in the loss of a game. That’s no fun for 4 other players.
It costs 1450 Ascended Shards and 920 Shards of Glory for a full set. So not free.
The first two reward tiers award 150 shards each, the second two 200, and the last two 250.
The play for the gear is about on par for how often it drops in Fractals or farming Magnatite shards in raids. Anet just needs to add the ability in WvW and then we’re golden.
Ascended gear is only hard to get if you make it hard to get. I crafted 3 of my four sets and am quite happy to work towards these other sets to gear my alts rather than do fractals or raids. Choice and options are good.
d/c is to hash, If u can log back in under a min their should be no dishonor. Right now you are better staying log off and not helping your team.
Iirc, you have 1 minute to log back in before the system flags you as a deserter. So it works this way anyway.
It also has no visible timeout until it’s racked up on your account. So first offence should see no timeout.
Punishments start at 3-5 minutes and increase exponentially.
It is also possible to have Dishonour with no visible timeout because it decays much slower then the timeout.
Something tells me the OP isn’t being entirely honest.
My suggestion would be to remove the Achievement Point Leaderboard as they breed this sort of insanity.
These league achis deserve points. As does every achievement in-game, limited/time sensitive or not.
Each Legendary division title had AP. Profession winner in the Year of the Ascension had AP. Maybe that AP should be removed too for reasons not unlike the OP. Not everyone plays every profession or got a chance to get to legendary. /sarcasm
Let’s get some consistency Malediktus.
The Ascended Armor collection is for unlocking the Illustrious Armor skins though. These PvP armors are not the Illustrious set, so do not count unless you can change the stats on them, it should output the illustrious variant from the forge, which should give the missing infusion slot too. (Not tested this, but if they can’t be stat changed there’s another bug)
Why? If the guys at the top of the AP leaderboard PvP and obtain these points, they deserve them. Malediktus moaning because he can, again. This isn’t about his personal progression, but because he wants to remain Number 1. He should work for it if it means that much to him, given the fact he’s 1st on the board, it means a lot.
They are ‘back’.
They’re a rare drop from Cracked Fractal Encryptions or from combining four rare or exotic pieces of equipment with an average level of 75 or higher, in the the Mystic Forge.
Agreed, nothing should be gated behind events failing to restart the whole chain.
My suggestions would be to change the collections that Require killing the Temple bosses, for the bosses to appear for the defense of the temple. So it makes it harder and fulfills the collections. All the defense events should do is eliminate the attack chain events preceeding the finale.
For example, Dwayna Attack, is escort Priory, Kill Champion, escort Malchor, Destroy the possessed statue. On Defense this should condense to kill the champion plus a few waves of risen, Destroy the Statue.
Storing Proof of Heroics to max elite specs in a minute is pretty good. I’ve got about 500 proofs waiting (now I stopped buying Superior seige on demand in the field) just incase I want to reroll a character.
They’re also good to get HoT map completion so you don’t have to wait for hero points trains for the few that you need.
All I’m saying is these threads will continue to appear. Might be a good idea to take another look at what actually happened.
What actually happened, was that a WvW Vendor that uses WvW currency was announced to be removed from the game once beta reward tracks were out of beta.
It was announced in the patch notes introducing the reward tracks, and the patch notes when it happened.
It not only coincided with a quarterly update (you know the ones where all the big changes happen), but we were given ample time to buy it/earn it with Badges if we could.
It’s not Anets fault PvE purists don’t keep upto date with changes that will effect them. Even given the fact that you needed rank 14 in WvW to even buy the gift in the first place, so you had to either WvW for it, or WvW for it. That has not changed.
Achievements and skins/weapons are an entirely optional part of gameplay.
Think of these that are too expensive for you as long term goals if you’re that determined to have them.
Why do people insist on giving this response? The OP wants to have fun playing a game and feels, very understandably, that having to invest too much time and energy into getting new weapon skins makes the game less fun. It’s an entirely legit viewpoint that isn’t addressed by these facile rebuttals.
Anything ingame, will take various lengths of time depending on the player.
Just because someone doesn’t have the time to earn what they want in one day/week doesn’t mean the acquisition methed needs to be changed. It’ll just take longer.
You can earn gold ingame through a variety of methods, if you want something, you save for it and work towards it. Like I said, someones short term goal is anothers long term goal. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
I’m currently saving to buy Eternity, and have been for a few months. Do I think Anet should adjust the overall price of it’s components to lower it’s trading post price, so I can buy it sooner? Or is that a different story? Because saving 4k gold to buy something that isn’t actually essential to me enjoying the game, but I’m determined to get it, so I’ll save and save. It’s just a skin at the end of the day.
The game mode that prides itself on using ‘balanced’ stats not using your personal gear, will award you Ascended armor and weapons…
WvW left behind again in making changes to try and improve it’s gameplay and possibly get more people to play it.
Let’s hope they will add Ascended aquisition to WvW currencies soon, because this change is actually laughable if they don’t.
… but compared to my guildies im realy realy unlucky XD
