Guild Wars 2

Astral Projections.7320:

What you like is a matter of taste so it will be hard for someone to say which is good looking and cheap. Check dulfy to see skins and then check prices.

http://dulfy.net/category/gw2/weapon-skins/

I am very familiar with this page and it leads to only one thing. The way the page is organized, you end up seeing the pictures first. Then I get all excited about a skin. Then I click the link to spidy. Then I see it costs 250 ectos plus 250 blood and then I rage. I have been purposely trying to stay as far away from that site as possible for that reason.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Moonshank is a nice dagger I think

And cheap too! Exactly what I’m looking for. Two of those for my thief. Now to just find the others on my list. (And a shortbow too. Forgot that one.)

Anyone know the best way to farm T5 or T6 blood? I need 250 for my ascended quiver. (I learned too late I could have gotten a cheap MF back and transmuted the stats over last month.)

Hi, I’m looking for affordable skins for my characters and I realize some fancy skins (like Cobalt) are pretty cheap. Specifically I need Swords, Focuses, Pistols, Rifles and Daggers. Anyone know of any other affordable suggestions?

There are sometimes advantages to reversing that process, Contiguous. Instead of finding items and selling them to buy materials, you can also buy the items and salvage them to get the materials. Depending on the price of mats and the price of the item, it can be advantageous to salvage.

Anything else? I’ve been getting ore each time from daggers. Also it seems so far that tridents and staves always give wood, but I wonder if any other items also do.

Can I ask why cotton is as high as it is right now compared to the other materials?

Which weapons salvage ONLY into wood and which ONLY into ore? It seems most can give either.

Edit: For example, I’ve never gotten wood from salvaging a dagger. I’ve never gotten ore from salvaging a staff. I want to know all weapons that only give one or the other, not both.

Thanks Ethics! I’ll test it when I get home.

I remember hearing many times that you could use both if you did them in the right order. Is this still true (or did they change it) and if so, which order?

Thank you for the info! Guess those items must stay on alts I’m not using. Or I guess I could salvage for dark matter or toss them into the forge. My guess is salvaging exotics on average would tend to make more cash?

Thank you everyone for the information. Yes I’m only interested in DPS, not total damage over the length of one AA chain. So I’m hearing from one of you that they are equal, and from another that the dagger does more, if time is put into account?

I was looking for the chances that using an unidentified rare dye of a specific color will give you an actual rare dye. (I know it says the dye can be common, uncommon or rare, but I couldn’t find the chances.)

It seems these dyes are costly to craft, and I’m just discovering them now. How often do people gamble with these?

If you are just autoattacking a single target, which does more damage, sword or dagger? Obviously since sword hits three targets, sword autoattack will beat dagger when multiple targets are around.

I have 2 characters that I no longer play who were in exotic MF armor. If I change stats on these items do they become accountbound and soulbound on use? Or will they still be soulbound to those characters?

I figured out what it was and it was just a noob mistake, I was hitting cloak and dagger after the 3rd slash, not the full autoattack (not realizing the first part of the auto attack has the dual animation due to “double strike”.) Thank you everyone for the help, it works really well!

Maybe it’s because I wasn’t using the steal to CnD trick, but I was trying last night to do CnD, backstab, then one 3 part autoattack chain, and it seemed like I wasn’t coming out of revealed in time. Maybe I was just screwing up but I guess it might depend on how long it takes to move around the target to get into the backstab position (like I wasn’t side stepping enough for a proper hit from behind so revealed hadn’t finished.) Do you move through the target when trying to hit from behind? Is there something else I could be doing off?

Thank you celestial for that comment. I do think it’s a tricky thing. I agree that there are levels where you can get two different things. I’m surprised the regions where you get one type and regions where you get two types (along with which types you get) aren’t listed as a table on the wiki somewhere.

I’m not interested in the salvage items, just the materials you get from breaking down weapons and armor into wood and ore. I want to know when salvaging weapons and armor of different levels, what woods and ore will I get? Also is there a website that can just tell me specifically for an item, what it will salvage into? GW2spidy says what you need to make it, but not what it breaks down to. Maybe there is another site that would have this?

So even if you’re in position quick for the backstab, revealed will be gone by the time of one autoattack chain? Thank you.

Can someone point me to a guide for the most basic intro to D/D? (Or explain it if no guide exists.) I play a lot of different characters, so I am far from expert on Thief at the moment. When I do play I usually go S/P with shortbow secondary. (Though I did to a ton of D/P when deadeye farming was around.) I need to know the mechanics of the timing behind the high damage D/D builds I’ve been hearing about. (For example, after CnD to backstab how do you get the timing right before the next CnD with revealed hanging about?) I’d like to try it both in PvE vs. bosses (where the multiple targets I hit with sword won’t help me and neither will the blind from the pistol) but possibly in PvP or WvW. I’d need ground up basics. Does a guide exist or could someone advise?

Evilbeavers.3964:

I believe silver and gold are from accessories etc.

Yup. That I figured out. My question is for non accessories (since the trinket case is easy cause gold and platinum are in the name.) I want to know when salvaging a weapon, what levels give you what tiers of metal and wood.

I’m having trouble figuring out the cutoffs for different weapons and armor when salvaging. The cutoffs for tier (and the range in between tiers which gives you either tier materials) are different based on wood and ore. This makes sense as all 6 types of wood can be produced, but not all metals (silver and gold are never found from salvaging armor and weapons to my knowledge.) Is there somewhere a chart of where the cutoffs are for both wood and metal when salvaging?

Editing for clarity: When salvaging a weapon of level x, I want to know what tiers of wood and metal can be produced. I know for some x it varies (between two possibilities.) I’d also like to know where those (varying) zones are.

Thank you for that very clear response!

Teamspeak 3 has an overlay that lets you know who in your channel is talking. It doesn’t give any sort of in-game advantage, but it is an overlay, so I wanted to ask before using it. Does anet have any issues with this sort of an overlay?

showtime.9175:

Don’t feed the troll.

Most helpful comment in this thread.

I’m having loads of trouble vs these guys. Any suggestions?

I suck at the ninjas. They knock me off the bridge. They knock me off the raft. I fall off the raft trying to circle them. I just can’t get to the next part. I know I suck and am bound to get people coming in here to call me a noob, but I need any advice people can give me. Any suggestions?

(I was able to get master of applied jumping pretty easily in World 1 last April, but the new content seems a lot less about jumping and more about fighting to me. Maybe it’s different after the ninja fight.)

I’d love it if they made them account bound and would buy them all with real money on the first day they did so. If I bought one of each now, I’d only get to use them 25% of the time I play, since I’m switching between 4 characters at the moment.

Someone told me to space out my bag opening from the invasion because of DR. I think this sounds untrue, but I don’t want to take any chances. Have the devs said anything about DR on opening bags?

Played since beta and this has never happened on this computer before. Is there a slider somewhere I can set so that I don’t see so many characters at once? Like I said in title, this never happened in the past. I hate the new culling change.

Edit: By crash, I don’t mean it kicks me fully out of game. It freezes up, I can’t activate skills or see anything else but me move, then I get sent to character select screen.

Onshidesigns.1069:

Players who grind are less likely to buy gems with real money. Which means less money for new content.

They are also the players who want a gear treadmill. Gear treadmills gate content and slowly kill mmo’s.

I grind a lot. I also buy gems and HATE gear treadmills. I even was against the release of ascended gear. Don’t sum people up so simply.

Finally did it on a Sword/Horn warrior wearing zerker’s gear (Not optimal but I didn’t want to pay for a new set of CD gear.) Rallying off the visions as much as possible was key along with the trait giving you more health on rally.

Healix.5819:

I can’t say if a warrior is the best profession to do it on, but it is easy.

I can agree that (for me) phase 1 warrior is exceptionally easy, but phase 2 is a nightmare. I had no problem with Evon or Kiel T4 or any other living story achievement, but this I can’t get.

You mention being able to ignore the direct damage from Liadri, but I don’t think Liadri’s direct damage has ever been a problem. The issue is meleeing her while doing the (quite easy to memorize) phase 2 ring pattern while crippled but not getting hit by the visions or killed by an orb pull.

Edit: Crap I just did it. Made a liar out of myself. As long as I managed to hit all the nearby visions I would rally. Once I realized this it made things much easier. I think that was the key for me!

For those who say warrior is a good choice for phase 2, why? I find if I melee Liadri at all something (vision of mortality?) downs me right away. Is there a way to completely separate her from the crowd? I do think warrior has an easy time in phase 1. I guess I have to ask, what is it a that GS warrior does in part 2 that can take her down?

Note: I did watch one video by a top notch warrior who gets off a 100b. I haven’t been able to do a single uninterrupted 100b vs her.

Which professions have the easiest time in P2 specifically? I’m having trouble with the 2nd part of this fight.

So Sobat, you have to hit them at least once before you go down?

I haven’t been able to find a way. If I get downed I try to attack the nearest vision of mortality, but it has too much health.

I hope it’s not so hard to get, I have 8 characters to equip.

I hope there are a lot of changes that make it encouraging to play multiple characters in WvW.

Remember that LC will be coming back, so putting too much of an investment in Quartz now that it’s harder to get, might not be all that lucrative.

I did not know that bit about critting for 0 still triggering vigor, theguildless. I also didn’t know about the damage from scepter being comparable. I guess it’s from the combination of 3 &2, holding her in one spot and the pounding after?

So staff phase 1 and S/F phase 2 would be a good bet maybe? Anyone got a link to a build? (I’ve seen links to videos but not one that describes the build.) Also would I need to buy a full new set of gear? I have soldiers exotic armor with ruby orbs.

In the recent reddit poll, seemed like Guardian was 2nd most popular class for it. From what i know you need two things:
1) mobility (swiftness, evade, maybe a blink or port)
2) good ranged damage in phase 2
Guardians do have lots of ways of getting swiftness, both shouts and staff, but their trait only gives vigor on crit, so they don’t have the most dodges (compared to say a thief.) They aren’t a high damage ranged class either. What technique are guardians using to face her?

Excursion.9752:

I would love to see negative AOE as a solid red circle that way i could quickly tell what side of that one shot AOE that falls from the sky I’m on. This would be a great option to add.

I have trouble seeing the circles too. Maybe it’s the surface, maybe it’s not rendering right, but being able to see those circles clearly would make the fight so much easier for me.

The event is not working the way Anet intended. They should change it soon before the economy goes nuts. Iconik, thx for being a hero.

Thank you, Killer!

Only thing I can’t see is the food. Which are you using?

Somehow you seem to be doing a buttload more damage than me in there, though I have the exo zerker armor with ruby orbs, the ascended zerker trinkets, and exo zerk weapons. I can’t figure out why I am seeing such a difference in damage output at the moment.

Edit: Also I can’t see the weapon sigils!

Edit 2: More questions! How important do you think the cripple is from GS4? It takes a while to activate and subject 7 doesn’t move too much.

irunai.7963:

You can still kill deadeye with 5 gambits. It’s only slightly more difficult now, but not impossible.

Which profs can do this? I only want the achievement, not interested in farming.

PokerTuna.6170:

You didn’t have to take your time. Your choice, not our problem.

If I get the 5 gambit achievement now, it will be a lot of work. Before I would only have to hit 0-7-4-5-2 on my warrior then switch from axe/mace to GS in a 3 second match. Yet the amount of skill points is the same in terms of leaderboard ranking. If you don’t find something wrong with that I don’t know what to say.

MagnusLL.8473:

If you have a thief, it should be easier with that.

I do have a thief in full exotic zerker at lvl 80. Haven’t seen any builds or guides for that though.