Guild Wars 2

Off topic, bit just out of curiosity. Do the current events become unobtainable after awhile? I mean, let’s say I only did the first set, the coalescence hunter one and havent done any events since? Can I still do the “current events” that came out 3 months ago or did I miss them?

If the adventure flags were immune to mobs near them, then you’d just have a group of people standing around near them waiting for someone else to do the outpost events that would make the adventures available for them.

Most events in the SCAR camp chain can be done with 5 or less people, the last event in the chain does produce quite a mob, and Drone Race is not available until that last chain is done. If 30 people were there and ran past you, perhaps starting Drone race wasn’t the priority for the group, perhaps they left because the TD Meta started?

It’s a sad reality that the adventures are not available until certain things are done, but, it’s sadder when NO ONE is there to help you start it and you have to kick it off for yourself and those waiting by the flag for someone else to do the events that would start it.

A year ago, I spent about 4 months exploring the 4 new maps on my main and maxing out masteries short of raids, before taking my alt all the way through to DS this year as a level 5 mastery. It takes time, and you will struggle in the beginning, but it gets easier. You just have to get used to the maps, the shortcuts, and what masteries you need and which ones can wait abit. That level 5 account just hit level 50 something last night and it’s more fun, but it’s still nicer on the 165 account.

Maguuma mastery points, imo are plentiful enough, once you get used to the little things you can do to rack them up, it’s the core masteries I wonder about being able to get on the alt. I honestly don’t know where I got enough to max the lines on my main, because I look at what’s left and where that account is and I think, this will take another year…

Day cycle, it seems no one wants to defend anything anymore. Then, even if you do see 1 poor soul doing defense, he/she likely won’t be able to hold out by themselves, as everyone else just runs by awaiting the choppas.

VB in particular has this problem, and it’s not just the outposts. Take the ongoing defense achievement, I let this one slip in the beginning. To complete VB achievements, that one and gold Shooting gallery are all that stand in the way, yet I can’t recall the last time I saw more than 2 people attempt to defend those constructed towers and 5 waves of defense is rough with 2 people, especially when it coincides with another event at the outpost above.

The changes made in the beginning to make night defense more important were better for people wanting an organized meta, but the day cycle fell by the wayside a long time ago.

Ah, pirahna pond, I agree this HP is no fun and should be looked at, but I would second with the commune point at the end of Beetle Feast. There’s a King, A Queen and several baby appetizers, granted the King and Queen are both vets, but traffic to that area is next to nill lately, and soloing all them is tough.

You need Nuhoch fighting for Mayati, but yes he is an unlisted mastery point. Same for Potoni in Tangled Depths.

Mayati is on an overlook across from Jaka Itzel in VB and Potoni is at the top of the camp with all the wallows in TD.

It all depends on what you consider easy, imo Salavage pit, Bugs in Branches, Flying Circus (with advanced gliding), On the Wings of Gold, Drone Race (with poison).

Half of those you can get Gold in relatively easy giving you another mastery point.

There are atleast 2 spots in COT that are not friendly to shorties as well.

I think most people that say the SW puzzle is a breeze compared to Chalice of tears, have forgotten what SW was like before gliding. Specifically gathering golden coins before gliding. When first introduced, SW was just as difficult as Chalice of Tears, and when the next nightmare JP is introduced, we’ll all say Chalice of tears is the fun one.

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I love doing them, but it kinda feel like being the ugly duck in the pond. Everyone else get their nice titles by doing what they like… :_(

Here come irony of guild wars, you all do silly stuff for titles instead of fun and guess what. NOONE CARES ABOUT THE TITLES, onyly titles in last 10 years of both guild wars where someone gave some kitten about when he saw them on somebody else are: “amount of titles you gathered, title(ex: God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals)” from Guild Wars and “The Eternal, Slippery Slubling” from Raids, nothing else is revelant to anybody.

I saw someone with a title the other day, researched it, and said no thank you. It looks like you have to pay 1000g for the title…No, thats not a typo, some people REALLY care about titles, think about that for awhile.

With the all out insanity of this puzzle, for your life only, it’s safer to use a mesmer, necro, or thief (something with a “undo” skill). However, with the vent stipulations on the puzzle, it’s hard to stop and tell people, NO I can’t port you or worse ignore them all together.

Something like 2 years ago, before mega servers, we went down one day for a while, and when we did get back in people would crash every few mins. This went on for a few hours over like 2 days, it was well frustrating. The full message is atleast better than letting us in saying “ok everything might be ok”.

Server pop numbers being calculated

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lol 2 weeks of game play is ‘utterly ridiculous’, how gamers have changed.

What happens when you need 6 of them to complete your legendary armor?

Considering Legendary Armor is supposidly focused around raids, I suspect you won’t need a gift of Battle or a gift of exploration for each piece at all, but instead a Raid reward/Gift. In which case you’ll have PVE and wvw players complaining about having to do raids to get armor.

If you go into Verrant Brink with a standard zerk anything that you don’t really know how to play, but instead expect to beat to death anything that you come in contact with? You will probably die alot at first.

It’s probably best to start these maps with a class you’re both very familiar with and that has at least a fair amount of toughness and/or vitality.

As a test, down the cliff from the first VB waypoint (after you’ve done the first chapter of the story) is a swarm of Pocket Raptors. Ask anyone who’s fought Mordemoth, a swarm of Pocket Raptor are way worse. If you can survive that first chapter of the story and the first nest of ankle biters in VB, you shouldn’t need to tweak your build until you get close to the Auric Basin portal. At which point you should be at or close to your elite spec which will make setting the pocket raptor ablaze and dancing on their corpses much much more satisfying.

I’ll have to try tonight Leon, I was sick on Tuesday, got 1 character to EB, did 2 hearts and logged off after an hour, last night I took my mes there and attempted the JP, but the first character I got there should get 100% if I fully complete EB tonight.

Just a suggestion, the event is really fun, you meet alot of new people, you get some map exploration and it’s for a good cause.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/events/Quaggan-Waddle-takes-place-Sunday-Sept-25th

In December 2014 they had $10 sales, again in January 2015 they had $10 sales. Granted, this was prior to both F2P accounts and HOT, but the first sale that I’m aware of for the original game was 2 years after release. So, going by that timeline, if they were to put HOT on sale, you could be looking at another year.

I don’t think the cloth and leather racks in a home instance even require a harvesting tool, but I could be wrong since I’ve never taken a character in there without tools, you never see the harvesting animations on the home instance racks though, so I’d imagine the GH Cloth and Leather would be the same.

When you say weapon skin, do you mean you bought / earned a black lion skin, or did you find or buy a weapon, salavage or equip it and a popup said that skin is now unlocked for your account?

Transmute charges apply to any reskin where you don’t have an actual purchased / earned skin on your toon (think peg leg from the TP). Basically if you hit wardrobe, change weapon skin and the one you want is in the unlocked account wardrobe section, you’ll pay, if it’s in the top inventory row, it’s a one time free use skin.

The only freebie changes are with purchased outfits or purchased skins, with skins, you get an account unlock and 1 free reskin, but must have the skin in the characters inventory for the free change. With outfits, once you buy it, you can switch it whenever you like, on any armor weight you like. Actual Armor on the other hand, follows the same rules as weapon reskinning.

Mastery rank does not necessarily mean the player talking down to or taunting someone is better than them.

Take wvw for example, your rank has been shown for years, yet I’ve seen countless plain recruits beat up on Golds and even Platinums. I’ve done it myself and it felt awesome, rank really means nothing in the grand scheme of things, unless you’ve proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you dont have the skill to move up in mastery or you believe them when they say they’re better because they have more time on their hands. But, if someone is judging you, solely based on their own rank, well, that says more about them than you.

I would say once you get used to it it’s better, the thing is, I got map completion on my main account when HOT hit, now I’m working on my alt account. You tend to take some of the TD spots for granted after awhile, like visit once and forget.

This weekend on my alt, I went hunting for two mastery points that I knew were close together and got lost, I have 162 mastery on my main and 20 on my alt…imagine my suprise when I started failing out of the sky in VB.

Seriously though, TD gets easier after a week of wandering and of course alot easier once you get all the masteries, but yeah alot of areas you’ll rarely visit again once you get them once.

The way I look at it, if someone spawns a banker or TP near a node, chest, mastery etc, it’s probably accidental, but happens so rarely it’s tough to say.

If they put a fun box on a tarir grand chest or final JP chest though, that person is probably a troll.

On the other hand, I’ve seen mesmers put ports right in the middle of these items, doesnt make the mesmer a troll per se, but one never knows for sure.

TPs die after so many mins or when the person leaves the map, fun boxes, aviator boxes etc. should die when the person leaves as well, but I dont believe they do.

Open your chests, go to fractal lobby, buy ascended salvage kits and go for https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_Recycling

It would help if some core events were changed to be harder or atleast not on a set schedule.

Take SB for example, me and a friend saw Brenda (the beer escort) last night and started talking about how confused the new people would be having to do a pre to start SB.

They’ll NEVER experience Brenda, the old school SB portals, or even simple pleasures like the Queensdale Champ train.

Verdant Brink! Obi costs airship parts + karma, but, the karma cost for 10 Obi in VB is slightly cheaper than it is for 10 Obi in Straights of Devastation, and airship parts are so easy to come by.

I’m fairly sure I was the first person to be quad golem body jumped. Way back when servers were servers, ABL was ABL, DBL wasn’t even a vision and I was a scrubby bronze something single-handily defending Briar against 4 invading golems.

Yes, it’s funny now, but at the time, twas kind of ridiculous.

Many others have since tried to replicate the outrage this manuver caused, but none have come close to the first time.

From teku nuhoch, take the lower tunnel, in the tunnel all left turns till you reach a lake. The skelk spawns on the platforms in the center, he warps around the different platforms, but will disappear if the chak gerent has started. To get to the starting platform you glide from the start of the entry path next to a mushroom, he’s usually up whenever I go into the cave.

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Personally, I liked her. But man . . . the amount of hate she got on these forums. She was called everything from cardboard to a poor plot device.

But I have to agree with Razor . . . can’t please everyone . . . or anyone lately. . . .

I dubbed Marionette funky booty…

Scarlet was bad and I’m glad she’s dead, but the Marionette was a fun event and worth repeating in some way if at all possible, even if marionettes backside was oddly shaped.

Can’t speak for the 3 you mentioned, but for Nevermore I’m currentlty on T4.

At the start, I had 1500 elder wood planks and 1500 elder wood logs, I had 1000 bandit crests and 400 geodes…I had 2 spirit wood planks and 0 Deldremore.

I no longer have any of these things, in fact the speed at which the elder wood disappeared should be considered for the genus book, it was gone before I reached T2.

The scavenger hunts are fun, the crafting portion is expensive or time gated.

I’m researching what’s next as far as crystalline ingots, gifts etc and preparing for the time gates and maps and content I usually avoid.

All in all I think this 1 weapon will take another month atleast, and that was starting with alittle bit of materials.

After crafting is done, most of the end pieces are gathering crystalline, obi, gifts etc like normal, but nothing too taxing as has already happened. So far, it looks like the worst parts are done (with the exception of the Fractals involved in the current collection).

But yes, you should research mats, prepare for modes and content you may not be fond of and craft what you can when you can. It’s a fun journey, but it can take alot out of you.

Kessex in particular, dramatically changed during Season 1 https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World_season_1

Unfortunately S1 isn’t repayable, and many little dynamic events that existed prior to S1 (not just in Kessex, but throughout tyria) are retired.

It would be really nice if we could go back, and see how, well…simplistic things were in that first year.

Ah, asuran portals!

My second toon (a char) I wanted in DR. I’d had the game less than a week. So me, in my infinite knowledge and skill, ran my level 2 charr across Disseau, Wayfarer, Snowden, Gendarren and Queensdale. I died numerous times in Snowden, but had to keep going because I had no more money to waypoint back to Black Citadel.

I think I discovered the portals a few days later.

I know of atleast 1 “JP” in AB (The ley line one by golem mastery point), and 2 in TD. I’m not sure if any of these 3 are under the JP category though.

1 of the TD ones https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Disco_Dancing_Delver looks alot like a jp, but isn’t. The other 1 in TD with the mushrooms may be an actual JP though, because there is a chest at the end.

Don’t go along with “they”! Put keys in shared inventory slots, join LFG for a good instance (doesn’t necessarily have to be multi loot either), drop squad upon entering map, party with a friend/guildie and have them join you in map, beat instance and have your friend stay in the instance while you bring in other characters or vice versa. Create your own multi loot instance so to speak and avoid “they”, because “they” are ruining the game. This method, provided your load times aren’t bad guarantees atleast 3 toons being able to loot those chests and if you’re in a non multi loot instance, you just helped the other squadless people that didn’t map hop.

Considering you can get a character to 80 doing old school map completion (no tomes) just by thoroughly completing roughly 4-5 maps (including hearts, vistas, POIs, HPs and any events you come across), there’s really no point in having hearts on any map thats scaled above level 50.

I voted to keep DBL and I didn’t even really start playing on it until 2 months before linkings.

DBL failed the first time because there were 24 NA servers, half of which barely had enough people to que 1 of those maps when all 3 servers were on it. PVE stole alot of wvwers and we were told ABL “may” come back eventually.

There are more people crammed together now, the first 3 weeks of the first linking saw alot of action on DBL because that’s all we had. Now, we have people to fill the maps and a variety of map choices, how is this a bad thing? If people quit because of 1 map, the rest can just ktrain ABL like they’ve been doing for 4 months.

How about add recognition for the servers in guest positions? Something, anything, glicko percentage, server nameplates, SOMETHING!

IMO, nothing else Anet chooses to fix or change going forward will make a difference to those servers unless they start getting some sort of kickback for their server for the efforts they are putting forward.

Just put your tempests on the oil, if they get ripped off the wall, they can probably quickly mist form back through the gate, if not, fire overload into the horde that surrounds them and have a standby operator drop oil on the horde. That way atleast the eles death meant something.

It’s utterly stupid anyone can be pulled off a wall when they are not standing on the very edge, they can even pull you off the top of NW stairs of Garri, that is TOO FAR for a pull, but the person who’s being pulled can’t hit the puller from their location at those stairs.

It was either the last poll or the one before, I forget, but I happen to notice it on the forum. Anyway, I hadn’t been in wvw for over a week, therefore I hadn’t gained a rank, but was still able to vote. A few days later, I was wandering around, got a rank, got the email, went to the poll and my vote was still there.

You don’t need to play WvW to vote, you just need to watch the forums for the polls, now whether or not your vote actually counts if you dont wvw is a different question.

^ Precisely, however, relinks are tomorrow. Given their current ranking, YB should get a partner, but, given their standing during this set of matches, why should Anet give them a partner?

If they were paired up with a larger T3 server and somehow didn’t move up quickly, it’d be a repeat of the beginning of T4 this time. If they were paired with a current T4 server, they might face the same dilema, and alienate T3 and T4 for another 2 months.

YB needs a partner IF they plan on getting to T2 or higher, but if they can’t or won’t move out of T3, they don’t need to be paired with any server currently in either of these tiers.

Invest in some food and wrench extenders problem solved!

Mid week on the last week of this pairing, maybe not the best time to bring back DBL, especially since the day of release the whole game was down for most people all day. But that doesn’t mean DBL won’t be populated on Friday.

^^^ Show usable objects, it’s a check mark on the first options screen, about midway down iirc, that option covers, nodes, chests, wvw seige, etc.

Target something else you are passing is your best option.

You can remove personal wps, but I don’t believe you’re able to remove targets.

Im just waiting for them to continually give the biggest force the red map. Or, give actual red the red map and wait for the real. consensus of how easy defending is.

Remember, we only had DBL for 3 or so weeks into these linkings, a majority of the experience we have on it was single server. I personally don’t expect DBL to be either dead or easily defended, especially on the severly lopsided matches.

I think merging was always the plan, eventually. There’s just a few holes with a merge right now, like T4!

3 factions or fewer than 12 servers would not work. We have too many people for one, and two those that like it quieter/less crowded hardly get that now, how’s less space going to make them want to play? We’ve submitted to the fact there is no hole in wvw that doesn’t resemble the cereal isle on payday, but 24/7 uptime is going to push a fair amount of loyal people away.

In regards to server identity and the troubles of the nomads, alot of people just want to know where they’ll be sleeping next month or the month after, if you have 6 different addresses in one year, eventually you’ll forget where you were born. Calling a new place home isn’t a big chore, as long as you know you’ll still be there in half a year, and if you plant a tree, you might get to see it through its first growth spurt, maybe get rewarded with some oranges perhaps a few flowers, some sort of kickback ya know?

IE, finish digging the holes Anet and plant us!

You can can treb just about anything from smc (which is typically owned by green), you could even treb the now only vulnerable wall of WC before from SMC, you can treb the gate and the cave of WC from green keep, and you could defend that cave rather easily from attackers from the walls and the lords room of WC and with long range artillery from the keep.

Every other tower still has two vulnerable walls right? Greens towers aren’t as spread out as blue or reds, and their keeps WG isnt attackable with seige, so why give green another advantage by making THIS wall, where Red would usually go invunerable?

Good to see they corrected a vunarability in a typically green controlled tower, now if they’d just make red Keep un-trebable from SM.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/HOW-TO-Ring-Infusions-for-WvW/first#post6279140

First off, the BS creatures only appear on 3 maps, so despite the fact Queensdale has moas, you won’t see the BS Moa there.

Second, I agree that the visionary device is flawed, but if you’re expecting to see an imagine in the red blob, you wont, the images show right under the red blob, they are black and hard to make out if you’re not zoomed in, they only appear for a few seconds and you won’t see them at all if you’re up against the ground. For maximum clarity, click the detector when standing on a ledge or some thing facing open air, zoom in slightly and focus on 1 creature at a time.

Lastly, the rotations. This piece of the puzzle is flawed, 2 of the creatures show for an hour each, and one is supposed to show for 30 minutes, but those 30 minutes seem to overlap either the first or last half of 1 of the 2 creature hour rotations, I even saw 4 appear once. Once all 5 creatures have appeared on the rotation, the device goes into a 30 min break where it shows nothing. Players think it’s bugged, but it’s intentional.

Look at Dulfys guide for BS creature event, it shows each creature, the 3 maps they could spawn and pictures of 1 spawn location and an outline of the rotation cycle. For the creatures that could spawn in newer maps such as TD, you may want to try one of the older spawn maps as most people will crowd on the newer maps. Finally, though pictures on Dulfy may show where it was killed on that day, that doesn’t mean that’s always where the creature will appear, it could show up halfway across the map, but if yoy see the text flash across your screen a BS crrature has been spotted, the champ icon will be visible if you look at either the mini or regular game map for that location. You’ve got atleast 2-3 minutes to haul over to that location before it goes down.

I wouldn’t recommend d going for 2 creatures in 1 sitting, because you may end up disappointed, though, it is possible to do if you kill the popular creature first (popular meaning it dies fast) then go for an unpopular one like the shark which took awhile to kill.

It was funny reading chat after 1 of the creatures died tonight. The same thing everytime, they pinged the mask and typed FINALLY!

It’s the first day! I got 4 of the creatures in 5 hours and if I’d gotten the 5th, I wouldn’t have retorted with “Finally”, because 5 hours isn’t that long in the grand scheme of things.