Guild Wars 2

There is space in the crafting mats for an item called Electrum. That actually exists in the real world but it’s not common. It’s a blend of silver and gold. I’m sure that’ll be the base material for Ascended jewelry crafting, like Deldrimor or Spiritwood are being used in those crafts.

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

how much grinding will be necessary to obtain a full set of Legendary Armor do ya think?

Just about enough grind, until the next tier is developed.

Gotta keep those hamsters running on their wheels after all!

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

Seems like people really enjoy answering questions so I’ll throw out a few more.

How big do you expect a squad to be?
What kind of content is a PvE commander most useful?
Is money a good enough gate for commander tags?

1. As big as my guild
2. Guild Missions
3. Guild Mission Commanders/Officers should not need to pay gold, when leadership is needed.

One, of Six. I have ascended GS, Scepter and a Focus weapon on my Mesmer. That character also has a full set of Celestial Ascended trinkets. I think I have enough mats on hand to make a Celestial Ascended armor set for that character.

We will see how long that takes.

I am absolutely not going to grind/farm the mats to equip any other character with Ascended gear, which means I will still only have one character playing WvW, even if WxP becomes Account Bound some day. It wont matter. I only have one fully geared character for WvW.

coglin.1867:

So tell me, how do news papers know or communicate what articles you read? They are made out of wood pulp and slightly inanimate.

That is my point, and shows your own lack of knowledge about the internet today. You compared a couple of predatory websites who exist only to track users, with newspapers made from wood pulp and ink.

I don’t do Facebook or Twitter for very good reason and if Anet would like to further support the streamer community they could easily do so, here, on their own forums.

coglin.1867:

So if you do not watch the news or read the newspaper, it is the worlds fault if you do not know what is going on in the world around you??

Newspapers are constantly reporting to each other what articles I read, or which advertisements I respond to? To an extent that I simply refuse to buy those newspapers?

Or are you apologizing for the state of the internet today?

One definition of support would be to name those streamers, here, on these forums.

I don’t do Facebook, or Twitter, and I don’t reference Twitch TV channels unless I come across a useful link, usually on Reddit, but never here.

I come here for useful information. It really is too bad that I continue to be treated like a member of the vocal minority.

Much like a tray of mango pies? Set it down for group interaction.

The other weapon crafts could have similar recipes. This couldn’t be hard to code.

No, that will only take you to 475.

I spend only game gold on gems, and I would not even consider playing a game with a subscription.

Artificer crafting Essences of Luck. Transmogrifying gem stones, and making Trays of Mango Pies if you already have that recipe from the mystic toilet.

Knighthonor.4061:

whats the features of Edge of the Mist?

No Q time.

CoF is in a similar state even though it’s fairly easy to open. I’ve tried a couple runs recently when Dungeon Completer comes up in the daily and all the LFG groups now include the term “need an opener”.

I tried to use map chat to get the gate opened and there was only one other person on that map, at prime time on a Saturday night.

This is the reason why people are thinking this game is dying. It’s pretty sad really.

I wonder about you guys who think there will be “no blobs” on the edge of the mists.

Servers like Drakkar Lake never do anything with groups of less than 50, and they like running over people. Can you guess how they are going to deal with EoTM?

Yep, they will blob it.

Skeletor.9360:

They won’t improve WvW ever.

Well to be fair, Anet thinks that Ruins, Toxic things and Do Not Touch Towers are an improvement to WvW, and our opinions are not welcome.

Two or three per day lately, and 4 so far today. Just keep reporting.

It’s a currency for one vendor only. Why is it taking up bank space?

Why is it not in the wallet?

Finnway.2183:

My solution to this problem is to add more Soulbound/Account-bound rewards that cannot be bought on TP with gold. (a.ka. they are RNG drops).

Get the kitten outta Dodge. Seriously, just go away.

The last thing this game needs is more soulbound, and more RNG.

Nope. You buy them from the master crafters. Welcome to Goldsink Wars 2.

Fror.2163:

It’s been like that for a whole year now and people actually like it…

The time required is one of the reasons why I rarely do them. Thirty minutes is enough. Anything more than that and people start dropping out of the party for one reason or another.

IMO, one fractal at a time, by choice, is a fine idea. At the very least Anet will figure out once and for all which fractals are really poorly designed because players simply wont play the fractals they don’t like. Looking at you Dredge…

For what it’s worth, I really dislike falling to my death too, the other reason why I don’t normally do fractals or the jumping puzzles. That is absolutely enough of that!

Crafting ascended heavy and leather armor wont be too bad. Anyone with a Huntsman crofter can build Deldrimor Ingots, Elonian Leather and Spiritwood.

Heavy and Leather armor crofters will already have a supply of those items, but light armor characters will be left chasing the wind. Tailoring will depend on daily creation of Damask and TP pricing.

The longer this goes on, the worse it will get for light armor characters.

morrolan.9608:

Does everything in the game have to be a grind now.

Yes

Because, players falling to their death regularly is Anet’s idea of, “it was so nice to see you, please come again next weekend…”

Addam’s Family MMO, anyone?

In a related note, these things are a crafting item, but there is no slot for them in the crafting bank. The QA team, doing their usual crap job of things.

Apparently the recipes with the crystals now work. It’s still awfully bloody expensive for a back piece. Mats for the yakkington celestial comes in at close to 100g.

Oh well. I guess I really didn’t want that after all. ><

Tibstrike.2974:

In fact, they are loosening up some of the ascended stuff this patch. We can now make ascended backpieces with bloodstone dust in place of vials of mist essence.

Have you tried it? You should.

It doesn’t work

Reann.9480:

Like most normal human beings I find it rather hard to play more than one character at any time.

Login char 1, build “ascended armor crafting piece 1”, logoff, logon char 2, build “ascended armor crafting piece 1”, logoff, login char 3… [/quote]

And what exactly would be wrong with that? I put the time into those characters they should be able to build their own gear.

The point I made is, I can’t gather 8x more material than anyone else despite maybe having 8 characters. (I have 6). Ascended gear depends heavily on walking the maps, outright farming the nodes for basic mats. It’s time dependent and has nothing to do with how many characters a player has.

Brother Grimm.5176:

The fact that 8 characters can gather 8 times more materials in a day than 1?

Like most normal human beings I find it rather hard to play more than one character at any time.

No matter how many alts I have, I can only collect about the same amount of material as you can, with the possible exception of the bosses and even those boxes usually amount to 1 green and 2 blues, with a bit of dragonite. They don’t exactly spawn often in prime time either. Maybe twice per night each.

Seriously, alts in this game are not an advantage, quite the other way around if you want to get them geared up.

So, you’re the guy who has been pushing ecto prices to the roof?

For science and luck? You wont hear any thank yous from me.

World bosses are failing regularly on Ring of Fire these days, even during prime time play.

Orrian Jewelry Boxes, but keep about 200k in reserve for Ascended recipes.

Sirendor.1394:

RoF is pretty weak compared to RoS. Weird.

We just finished a fantastic match up with the Dzagonur. It was fun, and exhausting. After that match I think many of us have no interest in playing a blobathon with RoS. We play against them again next week too.

Ah well, I can catch up on my sleep this week. Watch some football…

I predict an upgrade to level 100 characters!

That should be fun!

Excellent! I have one more reason to not be bothered with this content.

Thank you for saving me my time!

I wonder what’s on television tonight.

A lot of the stuff you need can’t be bought. You have to go farm it.

You’ll be crafting it just like everybody else.

The insane numbers of mats (probably) required means that only one of my characters will get Ascended armor. I’m just finishing picking up what will (probably) be needed. I need a few more dragonite ore and then I’ll look at the situation with ectos, dust and dark matter.

I say “probably” because we haven’t seen the recipes for armor yet but I’m certain things like the Vision Crystal will be repeated as is and ectos will be needed for Damask and inscriptions. Now multiply by 6 for a full set of gear, and multiply again by the number of alts I have, and it’s just not going to happen.

No matter what happens with WxP in WvW I will still only take one character there, because I’ve only got one character that is fully geared up. To me, that is the definition of alt-unfriendly.

It was more than just people. The Dzag’s figured out our weak spot and used it against us. We don’t play defense, so they went and sat in our towers for us.

At one point yesterday I checked MOS and they were holding 14 towers and at least a dozen camps. BT had the castle and I’m sure the Dzag’s could not have cared less because they had a huge tick going on, and didn’t need to defend the castle.

I’m still undecided if Season 1 was a good idea, never mind having a repeat.

One thing is certain though, server transfers need to stop the moment a second season is announced. Band wagon players have caused some ridiculous Q times even in the Bronze leagues. I deliberately play on a low tier server so I don’t have to deal with that.

The accusations over hacking and spying also seem to be more common on the servers that picked up a lot of players.

Of course the last problem with transfers during the season is the further imbalance that is created within the leagues. Ruins of Surmia is a good example. Based on past performance there is no way they should be running second in the EU Bronze league, but they are.

Despite the obvious flyhacks, the Dzags are playing a good strategic game. They’re taking advantage of the fact that we RoF players just don’t do defense. So the Dzags are doing it for us, in our own towers.

I don’t play fractals at all. I hate them, but I want to remind everyone here that in Anet’s eyes, yer all nothing but a vocal minority. Nothing will change unless you quit playing the game, which is not likely to happen.

Have fun in the “new” the fractals.

No, but we have toxic mobs in WvW now and and at least one person thinks they contributed something to the game.

It’s the night team that’s winning it for us though, and thanks for taking over last night. I simply couldn’t play last night, after 3 all-nighters over the weekend.

I would, but I’m afraid Anya would hunt me down and kill me.

He’s in the most recent one.

Man, I thought we had it hard in the RoF/Dzag match up. Are any of you guys getting any sleep?

smiley.1438:

Stolen.2045:

But thanks to our absurdly well sieged garrison we could hold at least this…

Wait WHAT? We had siege in a keep and actually used it?

Yeah, it’s not very often you see TaG use siege but it does happen once in a while.

I usually take screen shots.

AngelicLoki.1625:

Without PvE, you wouldn’t have towers, gates, keeps, etc.

Towers, gates and Keeps are lootbag magnets. Without them we would be reduced to roaming only. I wouldn’t enjoy that at all.

My other points still stand. Achievement point hunters recently made WvW unplayable for many of us, and we don’t need more of it.

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

If there was ever a post that needed a -1 button….

Any particular reason why? Just saying things suck isn’t helping anything, if there is a valid reason behind it, the ‘downvote’ is much more powerful.

I guess you haven’t been paying attention to the complaints about Toxic mobs in WvW for the last couple of weeks?

Players don’t want them there, and for the most part we have ignored them. The only time players deal with the Toxic mobs is when they are a threat to the yaks, and that is precisely why players don’t want more NPC mobs in WvW. It’s already hard enough to deal with player yak-snipers without having to deal with NPC yak-snipers too.

Whether anyone likes it or not, WvW is a player vs player game and we sure as the hell don’t need more PvE. The leagues and the achievements hunters have strained the game beyond its capacity and more PvE will not help.

Besides that there are far better ways to break up the zerging karma trains. Better rewards for defense would be a good start.

If there was ever a post that needed a -1 button….