Guild Wars 2

If there’s a glitch, it’d show in your mastery level itself (currently 64 by screenshot). That number goes up when you fully train in a line. Using https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mastery count all lines you’ve MAXED including Maguma and Fractal, not those partially trained because the mastery level only goes up when a line is fully trained. If the total maxed equals 64 points, you didn’t lose any mastery points you just inadvertently placed 3 in Fractal instead of the line shown in shot because you were training in Fractal at the time. Maybe not what you meant to do, but not a glitch, I know because I did the same thing. That 4th fractal should start training automaticallt now (to not waste gained experience), but it takes some time to get that experience, so make sure you get 3 more mastery points before you get the experience to max Fractal 4. The fact that, it looks like legendary crafting isn’t started yet means you should have enough resources of gain at hand to find 3 more mastery points for Pact.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Personally, I’d rather see a menu or bag menu option to “Auto consume all luck” while I’m working my way up to 300%.

Come on, anet. Do me a solid.

Are you referring to the luck stack right click “consume all” feature they added with HOT updates,

Blah, MF! Its taken 3 years to get 175% and I salvage pracrically everything.

Just bring back those 3 attributes they took away long ago, charm, something and something. That was a fun little grind. Why’d that go away again?

I believe the weapon master achieves only count killing blows. In other words, if the last bit of health is drained from the enemy via bleeding rather than an actual whack, it doesn’t count as a killing blow towards the achievement. A friend did scepter and had a similar issue.

I never said the quoted post was sarcasm, I said it was simply a joke. In fact I only mentioned sarcastic in my subsequent post to the first person that quoted me thinking I was complaining specifically about the champ spider. The subsequent post had nothing to do with the first, it only served to combine every sarcastic response I could think of at the time that was sadly less than 15 characters.

Kudos to you for getting that my first post was in fact complaining primarily about machete acquisition. The rest of that post however was mostly joking, as the scenario doesn’t always apply to me personally, but does apply to someone in a DS map somewher.

As you mentioned, yes, you do passively amass machetes, however, 100 in 2 weeks of metas when you can go through 40 in a GOOD single pod run? Do you hear yourself? My average is about 10 per escort run. That’s way too low for anyone expecting this big pod payout at the end unless they supplement with paid machetes.

Referring to pods as an end “reward” is the real joke. On a timer, surrounded by enemies, oftentimes only 1 or 2 of you in that particular area, with a limited supply of sources to open said pods if you haven’t a)Run the DS meta many times prior or b) run VB, AB and TD metas many times and gained currencies to purchase enough machetes for a semi good pod run.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the DS meta, when I need it. But the grind in order to grind some more after the meta is over is not fun at all!

Suggestions to decrease dead maps and frustrations:
1)Pre finale Pod spawns on escort routes and dead maps should be increased.
2)Crystalline ore output from pods should be atleast guaranteed 2 minimum per pod.
3)Passive machete drops from events needs to be increased OR purchasable machete bundle quantity (currently 5) needs to be upped to 10 if they’re going to require 3 different types of of 25 stack currecies for purchase.
4)Champs and overwhelming mobs should not be in collection areas or explorable areas when there is a timer is involved and people often find themselves alone. Not saying no enemies, but come on!
5)That timer needs to be increased atleast 5 more minutes if none of the above suggestions can be made.

That ackward moment when a joke goes over someones head, not once, but twice.

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Pretty pods! How do I open? Wait, what? I had to farm VB, AB and TD to buy machetes! Ok, I have 5 WHOLE machetes now what? Wait, is that a champ spider? NO! Don’t lead him to me…there’s only 30 secs on the map timer. Hey, come back here, I..I…I have machetes.

Just a note, I once had to research hamster gender (or guinea I forget). Either way, the difference was female rodents of cage bound descent had a Y shape to their part, whereas males do not. Furthermore if you absolutely don’t care, but find your cage bound rodent with red spots on their underside after a month or so, suprise you have a female.

As to the asura boob quardry, did you ever notice female asura seem to run faster than female norn? Can you imagine how much slower female asura would be carrying around 3 – 6 extra sacks of weight?

I’ve learned to deal with almost all screen clutter, both fixed and non fixed, but the event participation popup that appears over where the event chests are, really just makes me want to strangle someone with my mouse cord.

I’ve gotten that message in the circle, slightly out of the circle, while I was fighting, while I was rezzing, heck even while I was dying. The message is newish, not aimed to stop or deter you from rezzing down players. I think it’s a fix for participation rewards being earned by those not actively participating (staying dead rather than wping). But, it seems to be slightly broken for the ones getting it while alive and participating.

Seriously, the only time modemoth ever crashed for me was the first time I ran it (after we beat him none the less) when I was running the 32 bit client.

Install 64 bit! The only downside for me was my recording software had to change.

/age typed in chat will tell you how long you’ve played the character you’re on at the time and overall playtime across account (days and hours). Of course it doesn’t split it between core and HOT.

/deaths will tell you how many times that particular character has died (for the morbid ones)

1) Repayable past metas or similar style events (like marionette).

2) New PVE maps not focused solely of group meta.

3) Alpine BL back or atleast in a rotation.

4) New race

5) Ele and Engi alt weapon capabilities

I swear there was a group hacking in keg brawl last week. KEG BRAWL! As comical as it sounds, I convinced myself I didnt know enough about the event amd was seeing things. But, I have to wonder, what has it come to when you have to resort to cheating to win keg brawl?

I got several from wvw before, but I can’t tell you what or why they dropped. Consideting the name, I am wondering if your chances increase if A) You’re tagged and/or You’re operating seige that takes down a gate or wall of the tower cap.

Me and my friends actually like trolling the npcs. For instance, follow them around LA, walk right behind them, makes them so nervous they just vanish, its miraculous. Or surround the charr that says SPEAK, 5 of you in a circle around him, 1 at a time press F and watch him turn turn turn.

I would’ve thought they fixed the decriptions by now to stateyou can’t do this. Sorry for your hard lesson, having been there doing the same thing I understand the frustration and painful loss of the laurels. If no refund or exchange is possible, on the plus side, you have a starter piece for an alt.

The legendary armor collection description says as a prerequisite train in tier yada yada legendary crafting and talk to Mr. So and So in LA to unlock. Ofcourse after training in tier yada yada of legendary crafting and talking to Mr. So and So, suprise nothing unlocked for base armor collection.

That should be the first clue that the armor collection isn’t as easily obtainable as it first seems.

So, one has to ask themselves: Where did I go wrong? Is armor, future content? Is my account bugged?

Upon research, beat Raid X as another prerequisite. Ask again, If I then have to beat raid X to unlock legendary armor collection (again not stated in prerequisite), what else do I have to do to after to begin this journey?

Armor should be a hard earned, time consuming prize. But it shouldn’t be hidden behind the guise that one simply walks into LA and begins crafting. List all prerequisites in the description so people will know firsthand before getting their hopes up.

I dont know much about Revenent, and have yet to level one from the ground up. I do know it doesn’t actually have selectable utilities like other classes. The utilities are premanded by the legendary stances you’re trained in trait wise.

If you don’t have any trait lines trained, it’s possible that’s why you don’t have any utility skills.

Like I said, don’t know much about the class, just a theory. Maybe throw some points in 1 of the stance trait lines and some skills should appear for you.

Right, I assumed if the OP had that many tomes laying around that he/she also had the mastered required for HOT maps. Never assume.

Level 20 wise your best bet for runes are minor Runes of Speed, you only need 2 for swiftness duration and can use the other 4 pieces of armor upgrades for other rune bonuses until you meet the level requirement for major Rune of speed.

At level 60, Rune of the Traveler is good, requires all 6 to get 25% speed boost and are kind of expensive, but if you can’t quite get your speed combos down its a good fallback.

Good suggestion! Many times I’ve wanted to change just eye color (to match new armor dyes), but had to use full body kit for this. I’ll usually pick a new hair stlye or mess with the chest, height etc. So it doesn’t feel like a waste. Still, if the hair style kit included eyes and face and was redubbed Head change kit, that would be nice.

You can also tome up a freshly created toon which gives you enough points for the base specs (you need to train them before you unlock elites). From there you need I think 250? points for fully unlocked elite spec. Which can be acquired in the HOT maps quicker since those HPs are worth 10 pts each whereas core tyria HPs are only 1 pt each.

Just out of curiosity what’s the highest level map in central tyria you explored?

Yes, the new maps are mind racking at first and can still be even after a few months. But all 4 of them are level 80 and there’s very few places to stop and take a drink of water or a breath without an enemy appearing to pounce on you.

The only places I can think of in central Tyria that ALMOST prepare you for the level of death and dismemberment you’ll experience in any HOT map the first few times are Straights and Cursed Shore.

I’ve come across a few wardrobe items that I know should be unlocked prior to the update for account wide wardrobe. Most times it’s not a problem, an item I crafted or bought with karma yada yada, recraft, rebuy, no biggie.

Last night though, I came across Scarlets Veil. An achievement that’s part of an event that has passed. I have this acheivement, I have the title, I remember deafeating Scarlet in the Breakmaker twice! But when hovering over the reward in the acheivement screen, Scarlets Veil shows “Skin Locked”. I remember wearing this skin on atleast 1 character prior to wardrobe swap.

I’ve submitted a support ticket, but what happened with these skins that should be unlocked, did I use a transmute charge on a lowby and then salvage the armor? And if the event is Historical is it even possible at this point to have the skin reimbursed.

The base spec has race specific elite skills (even in wvw) but you dont see all Charrs carrying around Charrzokas. In fact some of the race specific elites were considered a joke in wvw, (insert become the bear to tank a gate down).

In the spirit of unity and fairness I understand the design theory that no elite race should be superior to another. On the other hand, the battle of Charr vs Human vs Asura vs vs vs still rages in the hearts and minds of players. Therefore, diversity and ethnicity is important from the very beginning of the characters life. Alternate racial elite skills and even alternate regular skills would be a valuable and potentially fun and explosive addition to the game. But, it shouldn’t be limited to 1 game mode. If we want to have a 5 man vs 5 man Charr bomb in pvp or a zerg vs zerg vs zerg Asura laser light show in wvw, we should be able to.

Yeah buddy, next gliding mastery dive bombing

Zerk/Assassin Staff #5 fire Ele.

Sorry, I broke the rules. But stats on a weapon are meaningless unless we know the rest of the armor stats of the fictious holder of said weapon.

BTW, Zoltar, Char skill – “Hidden Pistol” they can technically use a pistol. Which brings up another point, sometimes race is also important to consider when determining the answer to questions such as the OPs.

Wash the hedges! You never know, Jormag might land in your chair.

The thing is, it’d be ok if the RNG game actually felt random. But, these people that experience the unlucky RNG every single time they go to collect an item have gotten used to the fact that they need to save up their container opening devices, get a big old cup of Joe and settle in for a long, drawn out process. It never seems to be quick for us and it never feels random when you’re seemingly the only one to always get excluded from the precious shiny. While your map mates go on to playing you sit there farming. While they get their item and say, oh cool, when you get yours, you raise your hands and shout FINALLY, now bedtime.

Im half convinced I have the worst luck in game, despite the fact my MF is close to 200.

I forget which collection it was for, but the smokescreen claw. Yeah, I killed the same two respawning smokescales (a vet and a regular) in auric basin for 3 hours straight one night before I got my claw. Meanwhile, 1 person comes up to help after me and my smokescales had already gone toe to toe for 10 rounds, that person got their claw after 2 rounds and left. An hour and a half into it, a friend comes and helps, he gets a claw after a few rounds and me, still a big fat zip.

Honestly, if you’re searching for any of those parts found in noxious pods, but also drop from the end chest, it seems to be better and cheaper just to wait for the end chest rather than take a gamble with the noxious pods.

Maybe my RNG is aweful, but twice now I’ve used more than half my available machetes (more than 30 each time) and loads of time searching for the shield item and the GS item. While a friend gets his hammer item on the third noxious pod. It’s crazy! For the gs I spent 2 hours farming on my guardian and got nothing, then I came back with my necro and got it on the 5th pod. I thought maybe I’d have better luck opening pods with the weapons intended class. Now Im working on the druid Staff, so I started with 40 machetes and my ranger…40 machetes later my theory isn’t holding water. To boot, my friend got his hammer item on a ranger…

And yes, each time, including my friends experience it was the only collection active and the last thing needed to complete the collection.

This isnt about trinkets, but another concern about the new asc stuff.

Can you throw the new ascended weapons in the forge with a old inscription that wasn’t listed in the original selectable stats yet?

The last time I tried was right after I got the reaper GS, I liked the skin but wanted to put another asc gs I already had on my necro and give the new one to another toon. So I started the process then discovered I couldn’t anthology of heros MF the new reapers GS because whatever Stat set I wanted for it wasn’t allowed on that version of the greatsword.

The way I see it, with all these new weapons (and skins) when it comes time to experiment with different Stats on 1 toon, things could get very confusing if you’ve applied a different skin to 1 of the new weapons.

You can have nothing, first option “no title”. Several people run no title whether it be for lack of any or the fact that they don’t like any available ones or haven’t chosen one for their character yet.

So far I’ve crafted 3 sets of light, 2 sets of medium and 1 set of heavy ascended. In between I was spending laurels getting asc trinkets for these toons and crafting ascended backpirces and weapons for multiple chatacters. The hardest part was running out of laurels and bloodstone, which oddly seemed to happen alot, nothing else just bloodstone…during this time I’ve only ever gotten 1 asc weapon drop, 2 asc armor chests and a few ring drops (all from wvw). But, I spent the better part of 2 years in there and the drop rates have definately gone down.

The pain was worth it in the end, ascended armor is a big boost, full ascended is even biger boost, but it is not needed for most parts of the game.

If you do craft it, it’s better to concentrate on 1 set at a time. And if you go for weapons as well, think about weapons you can use on multiple toons just in case you get bored with 1.

Not true, there was at one time and still is to a certain extent. But, anyone who’s seen that person ask in DR ask for 100 leather for a struggling player, then promptly go to LA and do the same thing is kind of weary of offering kindness.

This is one of the reasons they listed for moving wvw reset to Saturday. Patches seem to hit anywhere between 8:30 -10 on Friday reset alot of times, forcing hundreds of people from each server offline and in some cases not being able to reenter after update. There were complaints of course, as a result there’s now a new reset day which garnered more complaints. Long story short be careful what you complain about.

First off, congrats on making it this far on mawdrey.

I’d already ran a few fractals with friends in the past and started that stage of mawdrey with 2 pristines a week ago (she’s beautiful, so keep going). Like everyone else has said, the easiest way is to do a daily fractal. The adept achievement gives you 1 pristine, and if it’s a good fractal day you can find achievements for another level below 10 which seem to be the easiest. If not, do the adept for 5 days. Best way to get your feet wet! You can solo level 1, but it’s best not to start that way. Level 2 definately needs 3 people. Anything after that probably best with 5 people and watching a video of it before you start. Good luck!

I have yet to see this, but I wondered if it would occur.

The squad system is probably of more use in wvw, as it lets the commander or squad leader know how many people and how much supply the team has, I suppose in meta events it’s useful in that it relays to the commander how successful an event is likely to be based on body count as well. In either case, there are likely to be trolls that are most likely already in the squad and sometimes it could even be the commander. Personally, no matter the play environment, I don’t really like to join squads, and definately don’t approve of feelig like it was being forced on me. I’ll join if I want to, but harassing me in map chat for not joining would accomplish nothing but silence and a report of those doing the harrassing. I say silence, because if you ever find yourself on the delivery side of harrassment, whether due or not, the best thing you can do is not retaliate in any way, else you’ve given several others not involved in the conversation reason to report you for simply defending your playstyle.

Did you go to your bank and hit wardrobe then filter by light pants and preview all the current options? Some you may have to do special missions for, but if its worth the look it’s worth the time. You may also discover that certain pants look completely different when paired with a different top.

I for one tried to create the Trinity look on one of my human ncromancers and nailed almost everything except the trench coat, it’s close but not perfect.

The cost of air goes up everyday, and updrafts are a luxary, not a necessity.

Thieves! And the rangers that long bow someone or somethings face from centimeters away. It’d be sad if it wasn’t so comical.

Wvw would be dead, not dead like they claim, but dead, like wouldn’t exist.

And while on the subject, are we talking about death by enemies or some stupid death like falling off a ledge in the borderland?

Actually, no, any game that takes a toon you spent sometimes hours creating and upgrading then deletes it just because your run key had gunk on it and you hurled your body off a cliff and died. Or you decided hey, I’ll go roam in wvw and fresh out of spawn you get ganked by 5 thieves and lose your life, any game where you could lose everything you worked for just like that sounds like a pointless game.

It’s almost kind of pointless with mega server, but alot of servers still have websites and TeamSpeak still. Doing a search of your server and registering on the site in some cases will grant you the option to join their TS if they have one. The main reason these voice servers still exist is for wvw, however most likely several of them run PVE channels as well. Also, in alot of cases, the websites have suggestions on builds and guides for certain events. Plus, it’s a good place to get to know guilds based on your server with more resources to help out if you need it.

Haleydawn.3764:

Option to turn off allies name plates in party/raid/squad. This would be amazing since your screen gets so cluttered doing HoT meta events.

Toggle squad option?

Hehe wvw people complaining of too much pve in wvw and pve people asking for wvw in pve. You guys are so funny.

For me storage didn’t become a problem until mid last year, shortly before HOT.

Before that time and on a regular basis after HOT release I have been “gardening”.

What’s left to move? It doesn’t matter why a person holds things in their bank, it’s their bank and to each his or her own. The problem is that 12 slots is simply not enough for the average person that has been playing this game for 3 years.

Character slots have gone on sale several times since the games release, yet to the best of my knowledge we’ve only been allowed 1 storage slot upgrade in that time. Granted there’s been mat storage upgrades. But what about the other stuff, the minis, the runes/sigils, the food, the wvw seige and supplies, the craftable items that can’t be deposited, the new HOT map completion stuff, the weapons and armors for collection acheivements.

All these things a player has amassed in 3 years, that in some cases are account bound and are not permitable in a guild bank, not sellable on the tp and not stackable in a personal bank.

Not to mention, that on another thread people are talking about grind. Is it not grind to have to clean ones bank rather than play at the end of a long work day?

Noone is asking for unlimited storage, just a few more slots for stuff that they for their own reasons can not part with. And seriously after 3 years and new content, a 15 slot bank sounds like a reasonable request.

It’s an interesting idea in theory, but much like the account wide wardrobe change, there would be an onslaught of people saying they unlocked X laurel purchased recipe on 2 different professions or 2 toons with the same crafting profession and want a refund of the extra laurels and/or karma they used. They would be right by the way, but how does one track this?

There are wardrobe items that I know I crafted prior to the wardrobe change, yet I’m having to craft them again to unlock the skins, even though I clearly remember wearing them and they show in my crafted items (acolyte and masquerade for example). Stuff gets lost in transitions like this.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the account wide wardrobe, and I’d love an account wide recipe unlock, but I love my laurels and karma too, but the idea that I’d somehow got jacked in the transition process would be hard to swallow.

Minions, pets, illusions and thieves guild will keep you in combat too. But, sometimes it’s just a bug, you and your minion are not in combat, yet healing is ineffective. I think the trigger fix was swapping weapons and healing again.