Guild Wars 2

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini_Risen_Abomination

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1n532h/gem_give_away_is_legit/

The app was legit, though it was through a 3rd party.

People could exploit it and print as many codes as they wanted. Since there was 5000 codes being given away, 1 person could have easily obtained hundreds of dollars worth of gems. I would expect ArenaNet to ban for this however, though they might not, since it’s 3rd party.

But it’s not like your account name is sensitive or anything. It is your forum name after all.

I wore full magic find gear since the first week of the game (my first exotic set). 2000 hours into the game is when I found my first dropped exotic.

fyi, magic find only affects drops from creatures, so world boss chests, champion chests and everything else, is not affected by your luck.

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For actual progression, by the end of the year, there should be ascended armor to work towards and regular additions of new skills and traits.

PokerTuna.6170:

2. Rewards are daily. So in most cases 1 kill is enough for the whole server. Who would bother doing it again just for fun?

They were supposed to…

ColinJohanson.2394:

Healix.5819:

If 80 people are required, is Tequatl’s chest (not the bonus one) lootable more than once a day? If not, not enough people will show up after prime time, especially on the lower pop servers.

It is yes, Taco will have normal every time rewards (rewards for each 25% health interval you’re able to take him down) as well as a bonus daily reward roll you can also get for defeating him.

Participating in the lazer defense event is how you get the X5% chests.

SAB will be closed on Sept 30.

Every time I’ve been in an overflow, the event has started within a minute of the other servers and main servers all seem to start at roughly the same time. I assumed the event was on a global timer rather than a cooldown.

So just look at another server’s timer.

If you really want to, you can delete all your characters to transfer for free.

There are people that kick others and sell their spots, but doing so is considered griefing and can result in a suspension – but that’s another subject.

When doing this achievement, take a screenshot before you pick up every single bauble. Verify that you have collected them all before leaving the point of no return and before killing the storm wizard. You should count 63 baubles.

It is not “illegal” to sell a dungeon spot.

It is “illegal” to use the LFG tool to post ads, which is what selling a dungeon spot through the tool would be.

You’re reading 1/2 of it.

From what I’ve seen, no. I’ve never seen all the fingers down at once before, so maybe that could do something special.

The current Tequatl strategy doesn’t really look right when you base it on how the developers originally showed it off. They pointed out how the fingers were important due to the poison and the one dev was focusing on them at times. They also mentioned the importance of rezzing people due to the locked waypoint, else they would have a longer run back, and we all know that’s not going to happen.

They’re going to stream the event on a random server in about 30 minutes. Maybe they’ll shed some light on the true strategy or maybe not, and just fail completely.

- Their strategy was exactly what everyone else is doing, and they failed at ~50% remaining.

Why stop there. Why not forcibly remove everyone in the zone that is just casually playing and not at the event. Then start removing everyone that isn’t 80 and then people without exotics and then people without ascended and so on.

… forcibly kicking someone, completely ignoring the fact that they bothered to show up first, while they are probably right in the middle of something is not the answer. Besides, there are more people trying to get in then there are spots. Even if guesting was disabled, you’d still have overflows throughout prime time.

ShadowPuppet.3746:

Randulf.7614:

I saw a tweet from the GW2 team saying to report anyone selling paths.

As for consequences of reporting, thats for the support team to decide, You would have to ask them directly about that.

Proof? Can you link?

https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/380793184047366144

Basically, report people that are selling spots through the LFG tool. Selling spots isn’t against the rules, but this would be abusing the tool to use it as an ad service.

The only thing that was changed was the amount of health and immunity to blind.

Previously, you could just ignore the mechanics. It died too fast to start the feeding phase and the fear and knockback could be ignored due to blind. The poison mechanic can still be ignored due to zerging whereas in a small group, it can be very deadly.

Trying to be realistic. At one point, they even had a charge up phase, where you’d basically go from walking to running when you first started moving. Since it was hated and felt weird, it was short lived.

Strafing at a forward angle is full speed though, while strafing at a backwards angle is like walking backwards.

Make killing the fingers hurt Tequatl. Problem fixed?

The current strategy seems kind of wrong when you look at how ArenaNet originally showed it off.

Account Bound, Soulbound on Use.

No skill lag for me, was in NA overflow.

Jormag is only 30 minutes and I see high pop servers late at night take around 27 minutes to kill it.

The time limit only hurts lower pop servers and anyone that plays outside of prime time.

Tequatl’s chest is not on a daily timer like other dragon chests. You can go there and loot it every time, which kind of makes me wonder how much you could exploit that by using guesting. The other chest however, the one that is part of the UI, is still an account daily and offers a higher drop rate compared to the other.

Activities. It takes about 3 minutes to do a sanctum sprint. If you come in 1st, that’s 1000 karma, else it’s 600. As soon as you get it, don’t wait, drop and requeue. That’s around 10k karma an hour at least.

But in this case, fractals is the way to go, since you can get the karma and shards at the same time.

They’ve already previewed the updated Tequatl encounter, so there’s really no point in doing it again. I doubt they could even field enough people to show it off on the dev servers without cheating. They’ll probably preview whatever story is going to come along with it, rather than focusing on the mechanics.

A long time ago, when people were first getting their legendaries, every Twilight I encountered was a terrible player. I mean, I would be doing <insert major event> and there would be the Twilight guy either dead, exploiting the mechanic in some way, or in the middle of a zerg. It didn’t take long to equate legendaries to bad players. I’m guessing this was because those people didn’t actually learn how to play the game, they just farmed all day.

After a year, it doesn’t matter anymore, since everyone should be able to make one by now. For example, I have no intention of getting a legendary, yet I have gathered all the resources to make one just by playing the game.

Karizee.8076:

I plan on doing Tequatl every day until I get the Tequatl mini.

Every.
Day.

Tequatl’s dragon chest doesn’t have a daily limit. You can farm it all day, every day.

It means use the power glove. The level 1 power glove only breaks wood however, so you can assume that that’s future content.

And that down arrow is a P in New Krytan.

If you couldn’t get past the toad boss because of laziness, I’d guess you’d be far too lazy to deal with the difficulty and length of world 2. Zone 2 of world 2 takes longer than the entirety of world 1.

Also, you need unlocks from world 1 to complete world 2. In the future, world 5 will require unlocks from world 4, world 3 and so on. Allowing people to skip simply wouldn’t work.

It’s just a bug. It’s supposed to show +14 power.

Josh Davis.6015:

Hey folks,

I believe the Orb is still giving +power but the text is missing on the tooltip. Regardless, we have the issue in the tracker and we’ll have it fixed as soon as we can.

Thanks for the report!

I’ve already tried a no deaths (by enemies), no death on the storm wizard and it didn’t count.

It’s far too easy to photoshop the achievement with 100% perfection. Just copy/paste the old master’s achievement. As for the picture, it’s been resized and that’s a usual tell to hide imperfections. On the real achievement panel, notice how the left hand achievements have a darker background on the top right corner than the right hand achievements? Now notice how in the image, this doesn’t match and the ones you would expect to be moved, are flipped. Also note how the textured background of the window is missing for the bottom left achievement, which is very noticeable and the ’ shaped mark on the background is missing above Master of Baubles.

Vince Ste Marie.2081:

The Box is open all month.

Vince Ste Marie.2081:

Moto will continue selling his fundraising items for two weeks after the Super Adventure Box closes.

At the end of the month.

Legendaries are tradeable. You can send it to whoever you want.

In the event that you get flagged for RMT, just contact support and be like – same IP address.

The temple has been buffed twice. The first time was the buff to Grenth where they gave him the vortex mechanic. The second time was with the Orr revamp, where they buffed the skills used by enemies, causing the defense part to get super buffed.

In the past, before both updates, I’ve solo’d the entire chain. After both updates, I’ve solo’d Grenth, but not the defense event. There was simply too many adds, veterans and champions. I’ve never tested how the waves spawn, whether they’re one after another or based on a timer. If they’re on a timer, you’re simply going to get overrun. If it’s one after another however, you could probably kite them around the room and just wait out the timer.

The last time I tried the defense event solo (post update), I was constantly bombarded with ground targeted AoEs. I actually got through the first couple of waves, but then a champion spider spawned with a bunch of veteran spiders and whatever it did just 1 shot me. I was expecting egg sacks at least, like normal risen spiders, but it just went straight to adds.

(Also, I solo it legitimately, killing shades and evading AoEs – I don’t use whatever current exploit there is to ignore mechanics. And I’ve never done the entire thing solo, a couple people usually show up half way through and die or at the end.)

The SAB is pretty much a solo adventure. The ability to group is there for the people that always complain about “why can’t I play with my friends?” and the only reason it recommends 5 players is because it uses the dungeon interface.

PuGing tribulation mode is probably one of the worst things you can do, assuming you actually want to succeed within a reasonable amount of time. Most people that try to PuG it probably haven’t done it before, since anyone that has will probably solo it. The only point in grouping for it is to share the experience of failure, to keep yourselves company. You’ll probably die at least 100 times on your first run.

Find a guide on YouTube, watch it and solo it. It’ll be much faster and easier than trying to run it with a random person.

Visit the black lion weapon specialist with the ticket in your inventory.

Intended. The originally released SAB skins are not sold by Moto anymore. If you want a blue greatsword, you’ll have to buy the rare, tradeable version off the trading post. If you want a green or yellow one however, you can complete tribulation mode.

Sounds too difficult. I just auto attack, AFK for 15s and collect loot. Due to his new attacks being in predefined spots, they never hit, and he never seems to cast his targeted original attack, so I can just stand there auto attacking. It does this for all W2 cages.

Judging by the preview, the LFG tool is basically just gw2lfg, a forum where you post a thread (LFM) that only 4 other people can reply to (LFG). Since it’s cross server, I can’t imagine that working very reliably, since listings would come and go every few seconds. Is there even a random join + random dungeon option? They could have done so much more, offered daily randoms, etc.

Despite some people hating the “dungeon finder” model, it has been the best innovation to the LFG tool since the tool itself was first introduced. Why not allow dungeons to be queued and played just like PvP.

Since the tool is so basic, the one thing I don’t get is why has it taken so long. They have a browser in the game, they could have just made it a website like the trading post. I can already display the forums, gw2lfg or whatever else I want through the in-game browser by overriding it.

Wonder what ArenaNet’s stance is going to be on putting “3g per person” in the description of a LFG tool posting, or simply abusing the tool to post ads, like what people did in GW1.

That karma gear is for the skins, the price is fully intended. If you just want karma gear for the stats, you buy it from heart vendors. If you just want gear, buy it from the trading post or craft it. It’s not like you need top of the line gear either, you should be able to continue on using only stuff you find.

Video of the currently known baubles for whoever wanted it.

http://youtu.be/7m92jA7g0Cg

It works on the big icicles and should work from the ledge you would jump to the icicle from. The song is 133 133, and sometimes the first note has issues, so 133 133 133.

The song shatters any burnable ice (frozen waterfalls), permanently destroys small icicles and makes the big ones drop.

The room with the 2 teleporters didn’t count? Did you try using the teleporter and opening the door on the other side, then teleporting back? If that doesn’t update it, all you can really do is try the whole thing again and be sure to carefully follow the guide and enter/exit each room multiple times.

I actually did a single run a few hours after I posted that to see what my time would be, but never bothered to post it.

I never found leaping + swiftness to make that much of a difference. I don’t think I ever switched from the starter sword though, so that probably didn’t help. I mainly remember getting bored of the sword one day and trying the axe, which killed everything much faster.

Mario Lemieux.9107:

Ayrilana.1396:

I’d rather you be able to forge them into a white weapon than a rainbow one.

Or black.

When you combine the colors of the rainbow, you get white.

Odinsfury.8360:

What I do know is that this upsets me that we see a difficulty spike in SAB and then… Oh look guys, here’s an infinite continue coin for 600 gems.

You make Josh sad. The difficulty spike is not the result of the coin, it’s the result of trying to make something fun and in the style of old school games. The coin was probably the result of testers failing and wishing they had cheat codes. Their problem though was that they released the coin at the very start, when they should have waited a week or two and released it as a “need help?” item for those struggling.

Quite a few people share your opinion and because of that, future SAB worlds may suffer for it. SAB saw a reduction in participation, which Josh blames the difficulty and your opinion on the infinite coin for, though there are other factors of course, like it not being profitable, at all. To get more players participating, Josh might cave and completely nerf it.

The infinite coin is truly only needed if you want to beat tribulation mode first, on day 1 without any guides. World 2 can seem hard at first, but once you understand it, it’s really not.

Read his personal blog if you want some behind the scenes insight.

AmIAnnoyingNow.2903:

I bought a coin cause i’d rather go to the continue screen every 11 lives instead of 6. That’s the only reason.

But, you can put in multiple coins at once, so if you have 10 coins, you can retry with 50 lives.

You also need to stay near the chest when the timer runs out. The only “fix” is to try again.