Guild Wars 2

We can only hope. +1

Kings X.5082:

Leamas,

It is supposed to be fun, not hard and tedious. I can see the game reviews now. This game is so hard and tedious you will love it, buy it now and get your rear end handed to you! Imagine the fun you will have being face down in the dirt! Get the collectors edition that features minis that laugh at you when you die repeatedly!

Did anyone else immediately think of Duck Hunt and the dog?

I could only pull off 1-2gold from Pent/Shelter runs pre-patch, and that was selling everything. But again I am a Ranger that has condi build + zerker armor & pirate runes… I know it’s bad but I’m currently getting gold to re-rune. I went with stuff I could craft and afford.
I tried to use barrage to tag mobs then jump in with a GS and do more dmg. It never really worked for me. I couldn’t actually get the kill credit unless I grouped.
I will wager I can now get more but it will never compare to what some could. My playstyle has me all over the place doing more of exploring and completing events or helping others out than farming. I went there (Pent/Shelter)as a desperate move to make some money to craft armor for alts and save for better runes.
Let’s hope the Champ/vets issue is resolved or else people really will flood the forums.

With the sheer attention and interest this thread generated, I hope Anet realizes how much people love treasure hunting. Final Rest was a/an unique enough skin to have people looking for it. Putting lore bound weapons/armor that are unique into rewards for completion of rare events would be a huge boon to those looking for more ‘end game content’.
I hope they see the potential for this kind of thing and build off of it. Work required: 3D modelling of new skin, testing for clipping with all races, adjust loot table and plop some hints into the world or use existing dialogue/books.

Adding my : Connection error(s) detected. Retrying…..

Seems that everyone wants the patch at the same time

Then at this point we will have 6 ascended pieces available: 2 rings, 2 earrings, 1 amulet, and a backpiece? Plus the slots/infusions.
Just making sure.
And kittens are cute til they become cats.

Before updating the wiki make sure this person was in fact an officer. I don’t recall the OP ever saying this person was an actual officer or just a member.

VOLKON.1290:

In this thread: People complaining about access to ectos and overlooking the part where you’re guaranteed at least two rares completing the missions. (Helpful Hint: Up to six free ectos right there per chest.)

Agreed that it’s up to 6 free ectos or it’s also 0 ectos. From a rare that is ok (painful but ok) but from an exotic piece I would expect at least 1. RNG is kind or hateful.
I was just commenting on the fact that this is another ecto sink when the prices are already rising.
I expect the more diligent players to be much richer than the casual but at the same time it’s getting harder and harder to keep up just to make exotic sets without running dungeons.
(Speaking strictly from the point of view of someone that didn’t level up a warrior or any other direct damage character and has just now seen the difference in what that means. Alt warrior is just now lvl 50. )

They need to make a salvage kit that guaruntees at least 1 ecto per rare or at the very least 1 per exotic. The demand is growing by leaps and bounds but supply is still limited.
It wouldn’t make a huge difference to me as I have only ever seen enough ectos to gear up two lvl 80’s in crafted exotics and 1 of them in two pieces of jewelry. BUT I also don’t run dungeons either so I can’t really complain about a lack of supply.
I do open world and WvW and so far on a condi ranger & guardian the rares are just…. rare? And exotics are only for map completion and karka chests.

At least with a salvage kit that gives at least one ecto, prices of ectos won’t skyrocket yet again. Pre-November the price stayed around 13-15s. (edit: hit post instead of preview)
With yet another piece of equipment requiring a fair amount of ectos to craft/purchase I forsee another jump in prices.

I think there should be attention given to all the rare/highly-unlikely-to-ever-drop items in the game.
I thought the Wings of Dwayna were a possible MF recipe that no one wants to chance throwing a gift away to find? Please correct me if I’m wrong as I was interested in this weapon as well.

I HOPE they keep the rare drops tied to specific bosses/events/chains. If they drop from just any splendid chest then where’s the fun in that? I like the treasure hunt aspect of this. <— Just an opinion

As I said before, and others have repeated; the best scenario for a fix is to have a guild leader who is demoting themselves (intentionally or not) type in the name of their successor and then confirm it.

@Tiger – since there is no recourse at the moment, here’s what I would try. Today’s patch is well known and the person may come back for a big update like today. Keep looking out for a login.
Reddit is a tad more popular than GW2 forums. Post there as a plea for the person or anyone that knows them to get in touch with the guild.
Use this at other popular mmo website’s forums.
Sorry I have no better suggestions. I would keep in contact with support as well as your other members. If anything this thread may get enough attention to be a catalyst for change in their Guild UI.
GL

I would love to see this feature.
+1

I just looked up what Font of Rhand is. I did that mini dungeon long ago. I remember because there were five of us fumbling around without a clue.
On Blackgate it gets opened up quite a few times (been on my low lvl alt and saw it opened up multiple times).
I’ll see if I can’t bring my 80 ranger there later.

You can pay to switch because guesting does not work for WvWvW.
It is why there are so many of the threads complaining about WvW being part of map completion. If they randomly assigned colors at server reset it would make it a little easier. Or even move the poi’s outside to the gates but that wouldn’t help some of the vista’s.
EDIT: Forgot to add; I am stuck at 97% with only WvW poi’s and vista’s left to go. I check frequently as of now it’s just a long waiting game.

There are sub-forums dealing with specific graphic cards issues (well amd or nvidia). Try having a look in there and see if any of the suggestions help.
Personally I had an issue about a month ago after a patch. Funny thing is my 2nd video card had literally begun to die and I wasn’t aware.
If you have V-sync on try turning it off in settings (in-game). That helped once I got my rig back to working. Something had slowed the game down and that switch alone provided me about 20fps boost.

I want into (The RNG hellocrappydropagain club) actually I think I’m already an honorary member.

If it doesn’t drop for me I have to craft it. Which is essentially what I have done for both my lvl 80 chars. Unfortunately I wasn’t shown the memo early on about DPS/burst dmg being the way to get decent loot.

Now that I know my lil warrior is at lvl45. And kitten if she isn’t already sitting on 4gold in two days. I can’t barely do that with my lvl 80 ranger or lvl 80 guardian doing pen/shelter. Both of those I did the condition build with and just now I’m working on retraiting and then getting new armor for them to do more straight dmg.

Until then I’ll level the warrior and let her gear the others. So far it’s working and I wish I had thought of trying it much earlier. The two lvl 80 characters are on hunts for rare stuff instead. Something that is much more fulfilling than running pen/shelter mindlessly for gold.

EDIT: @Calae – strange I thought this thread was about Legs too. Being in medium and heavy armor I don’t get to see them often. Got my hopes up for nothin.

@rgwng – I don’t know if you have already checked in cursed shore or not but I know that they added a WP there. It was said it wouldn’t have an effect on world completion but I’m not so sure.
I finished all maps except WvW (stuck at 97%) but I noticed that in cursed shore I now have 99% complete when I had 100% and received the reward some time ago.

- still missing my survivor acheivement, stalled at 499,999. I am pretty sure I can redo the overkill acheivement with a crab in southsun but the survivor is not so easy to redo.

I posted this question in a different thread by mistake, as I was following both.

Would it be feasible if after the stack is capped, all conditions applied after were merely damage multipliers? The multiplier would be based upon the player’s condition dmg/duration stats. Or is that just as server processor intensive as what they are already trying to do?

Would it be feasible if after the stack is capped, all conditions applied after were merely damage multipliers? The multiplier would be based upon the player’s condition dmg/duration stats. Or is that just as server processor intensive as what they are already trying to do?

Though I can see where you’re disappointed; I like the fact that I can complete maps and receive rewards on alts. I am stalled at 97% map completion on my main. It’s the last of the WvW that I’m missing. So I just run alts around maps while I wait it out.

I wouldn’t mind if it were account bound as long as they don’t take the rewards away for alts completing maps as well.

Yeah Taidha Covington is not as easy at it first appears either. Hint: the Abomination can walk through walls and you can’t. :P It took me awhile just to find the low level room the NPC’s were downed in. I was there for first time solo and when I died I saw someone run in and they died immediately.
I wish I hadn’t failed so badly so I could have gotten an idea for a strategy.
Anyway it was up and unfinished on Blackgate about an hour ago.
I think you guys are onto something with the ‘long’ timer events. It’s been in two dev posts thus far (the mention of a group running it once a day).
Going to check out the Font of Rhand and Tomb of Morlog, next chance I get.

EDIT: wouldn’t it be ironic if it was indeed in a mid-level map? They may not be so empty any longer if it turns out to be.

Just did Demagogue on Blackgate. Splendid chest dropped lvl 80’s 2 green and 1 blue. I parked my Ranger there til tomorrow.

And a list would be good though someone already compiled one a few pages back. Good idea to keep a list and try hitting as many as possible per day.

I haven’t gotten a dye back but I have gotten 2 insignias back since beta. Those were a complete shocker because I really didn’t see them counting towards anything: rare crafting material maybe?
Either way it was a nice surprise and after at least 1000 salvages I haven’t seen any more.

I have seen a lot of comments on people making mistakes by ‘quickly’ clicking confirm, almost out of habit. (Not meant for OP but instead for other’s comments on confirmation).

A good fix for guild leader transfer is to make sure that the current guild leader has to type in the name of the next guild leader and then confirm that choice.
Having to type in the name of something/someone makes for a much more solid choice and less room for errors.

I’ve seen a guild lose it’s leader to a ban and then left completely without a leader. I have also seen a recent thread started where someone accidentally salvaged their legendary GS.
I would hope that Anet has the ability to rollback an account, whether they admit it or not. It would not be in their best interest to admit to it since it could be abused.
Your case is quite legitimate even if it was ‘user’ error that caused the issue. The result effects more than one player and the new leader is inactive.
Continue to communicate with support and hopefully something productive can be done.

@Burnwees & somsom – I tend to think it was a hint whether intentional or not. It could be part of a long event chain or simply the timer is on a long reset or the conditions that need to be met create a longer time to reset.
Didn’t someone mention that the Demagogue event had a long reset? Taida Covington event can be done multiple times per day? Both aren’t farmed nearly enough times to produce results yet.
I haven’t done either but am going to check them out next chance I get.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

Hi, I just wanted to give an update. First, I’d like to apologize for setting off such a firestorm of speculation—I was trying to provide assurance that Final Rest is, indeed hooked up and working, but it’s not likely to have dropped yet. Like I said, the odds that I posted were a quick calculation after looking at the drop chance, how often the event runs, and other factors.

On a totally unrelated note, large event chests are being upgraded to make them more rewarding, so the odds of Final Rest and other rare items appearing should see an increase in a future update.

Please put more of these “hunt for unique weapon from unique boss/event” type of things in this game.
It has kept my interest when so many issues had my interest in the game waning. THIS very thing kept me running around and hopeful.
The length of this thread and the other in the crafting sub-forum shows the interest for treasure hunts is strong. There are so many opportunities out there in the cities for hints to be dropped. So many unique places for bosses to be hiding for you guys to add more.
Thanks for the hints you have provided.

I am really curious what class the people that regularly get exotics are.
As I said my main is a Ranger & then guardian = over 1000hrs = no exotics since beta
Just rolled a warrior after deleting my engi and its already getting more loot at low lvls than any of my other char at those lvls.
Plus I have been slowly getting rid of MF gear on the Ranger and replacing with more zerker stuff. In hopes of improving loot so I can get second set of gear for it.
If you guys don’t mind saying what class you’re playing it would be interesting to see.

I started in August – 600hrs on main ~400hrs on alts = no exotic dropped, no lodestone dropped.
Exotics received: karka chest, map completion.

I think it might be because I have a mostly condition build Ranger and a support build guardian lvl80’s. The rest are all babies still <lvl50 – 23

Someone stated a page ago they got Norgu’s Mantle lvl80 armor off Shadow Behemoth so there is no telling what is on the loot table of these bosses. For all we know Shadow Behemoth could drop that entire armor set or each of the dragon bosses drop a seperate piece of the armor.
So many possibilities, so many mind … altering… directions to search. I can’t think of a better reason to get high level characters in low level zones than more of these types of hunts for rare weapons & armor.
I hope the devs will comment soon and give us a little clarification on their prior statements.
Add more of these rare things in the wild and make the skins unique like Final Rest.

It has ‘almost’ been confirmed that chests don’t necessarily share loot tables. Example Tequatl – sorry for the spelling.
So again I beg an Anet dev to clarify what other devs have publicly said in response to the question about the staff.

Colin – much appreciated that you are so active in the forums these past two days and that you took the time to post this. It is good for the community to have this communication open.

Can we get an in-game tinfoil hat? I would proudly wear it everywhere on my Ranger.

I wish a dev would simply explain the comments of Lindsey and Jefferey. Are they both right? Is it a rare boss, a large boss, or a rare boss with a large chest. <— or any other combination of the words they used.
Considering those comments have already been made to the public, it wouldn’t hurt to clarify them or nullify if need be.

Vayne.8563:

Sensitive much? Perceived was the right word to use. If you don’t know there IS a problem, you can’t acknowledge it AS a problem, and therefore, it’s a perceived problem until they know more.

They can’t call it a problem because people (I know this is hard for you to believe), sometimes lie on the internet. Or exaagerate. So until they have hard date, it’s a perceived problem. That’s the right thing to call it. I don’t acknowedge things my kids say as problems until I know they’re problems, because half the time they’re not.

Have you ever seen this community over-react to anything that wasn’t a problem (gem store coughs). There were pages and pages of people talking about P2W and all sorts of stuff. For days. Weeks even. And it all went away and that was that.

Anet has no reason to believe a bunch of people saying stuff until it’s backed up by actual data. People should stop being so sensitive.

They asked for concrete data. They removed the only viable way to provide this data when they disabled the executable switch that logged the combat log to a local file on hard drive. They don’t allow for a copy paste of the combat log which does in fact keep track of every bit of damage done and received as well as all loot received.

When asked if this switch could be re-enabled for their request of ‘concrete data’ only silence ensued.

So yes both of those monumental threads were full of ‘perceived’ and anecdotal data given by players via the only means possible.

I don’t see entitlement here.

How many DPS warriors are out there that never had to worry about this issue at all? From Colin’s words alone it would seem those classes/builds that were focused on DPS really never saw a problem.

We need them to investigate this ^^ because I have found the speed of the kill can effect the quality. BUT my sample size is waaaay too small to count for anything.
My lvl80 Ranger always got the best quality drops killing something really fast or being in a group that was fighting close in proximity.

Solo killing vets or champs would not get me anything, white, or occasional blue.
Same creatures with a group of 5 and I could walk away with green or rare. Could be RNG but it also began happening when I levelled the support guardian to 80.
I just started a DPS warrior to test it out but it’s at lvl23 now.
Even if I did show this pattern on a small scale, sample size is everything and only the devs can see what is truly happening.

I hope they can integrate: buffs, boons, debuffs, conditions, heals, revives into the damage catagory when determining loot qualification.

I’m hopeful.
But don’t you think it’s funny that we were considered part of the ‘X-file conspiracy theory’ not so long ago?
;)

I got gold medals and no loot or really bad loot most of the time too. Even while soloing.
@Leamas – I think your solution is a great idea but I wouldn’t call it simple. Meaning the implementation of your idea would require a rewrite of current code. I do hope they consider something like this in the future.

wait … how in the world did you get so many precursors? That is a discussion all by itself.
Not that I’ve been farming for one constantly but I would love to know how you got so lucky.

Excluding dragons and other bosses that award large chests; they probably don’t want to encourage people to camp at champions and veterans.
If they only have a slightly increased chance to award better loot then people won’t opt to camp them waiting for them to spawn.
It’s just a guess and it happens a lot in other MMO’s where champion lvl mobs award high level loot, unique items, etc.
I honestly don’t know for sure and it seems to me that risk vs reward is skewed the wrong way.
I also agree that support classes need to get a fair shot at loot but I don’t see an easy solution if in fact DPS is a factor in eligibility to receive loot in the first place.

My two level 80’s are a Ranger (meh on DPS) and a support build Guardian. Both pretty low on DPS scale. It’s why I created a DPS warrior recently to test out the theory. So far it holds true on quantity of loot.
Consider that the most popular class is warrior (or at least it ‘was’ the most popular class) and you can see how a majority of people didn’t need to complain about loot. Especially if those same people built those warriors for the highest possible DPS.
There needs to be a fix for support classes to even this out in ‘some’ way. Unfortunately I don’t see a fix, maybe I am just too short sighted.
Until then I’m going to keep levelling the warrior just to see what I’ve been missing all this time. And I can hope that I’ll get to enjoy the Ranger and the Guardian in the future. I loved the concept of pets and I love to help people; they just aren’t so viable at this time.
Oh and the slots comparison seemed ‘spot on’ imho.

Ranger with a GS was kick kitten.
Oh and checking buying history: when ecto cost less than 13s each

There were more than a few in that massive thread that posed the question on many occasions about the speed of killing or damage dealt being tied into loot dropping. As one of the many who questioned kill credit, I do feel a bit vindicated.
At the same time no one could dismiss DR because the mechanics of it are so obscure and at times it seemed it refused to let go.
I do hope their patch will fix this issue for good. I look forward to it.
I still say that more communication with the public would have gone a long way and would have kept many people trying to help, if they were given more direction. (Even if their direction was just a placebo).

EDIT: My main is a Ranger and yeah loot has always been bad.

Diviner.7405:

Pretty sure the devs at Anet are going to release more information on April 1st.

P.S. You might not like what they are going to say.

Now that is just cruel. Dropping hints as provocation with no real substance in them. Hey just like the very obtuse hints the dev’s have dropped about Final Rest.

Either way, the hunt for the staff has been a reprieve, one that I personally enjoy. I’ll keep looking.

Even if they just changed ‘soulbound on acquire’ to ‘account bound on acquire’, would change things massively for the better IMHO.
I do hope a dev can help you. I have crafting split across alts as well. You probably won’t be the last person to have this happen.

I hope they do it for you. It may have been a case of over-eager clicking to finish upgrading the pendant but it is still a huge endeavor both in time and gold.
Put in a support ticket just in case.

Anet is in a bind no matter what at this point. The economy has a huge influx of gold and not enough ‘viable’ or should I say ‘appealling’ gold sinks. In order to create PvE drops that were as good as or even close to pre November they have to have something for people to spend their gold on.
(More skins like cultural but region based or even event based: Ascalonian skin, branded skins, orrian zombie skin, etc. ) something players can dump 50-100gold on and want to.

I came to the game from a Korean MMO that I liked but simply couldn’t keep up with. This was supposed to be a casual friendly game. In many respects it is. Unfortunately, aside from dungeons and dragons the open world drops are a bit scarce. Even more so for some of us.
I believe there is something to this kill credit afflicting vets/champs and most likely all mobs. Aside from the luck of RNG there is no consistency in open world drops and therefore it is difficult to find a pattern without seeing a huge amount of data that we are no longer allowed to record.
I deleted a character and created a DPS warrior for testing. At lvl21 I can’t vouch for DPS doing anything for quality of loot but I can say that the little warrior fills her bags very quickly. The quantity of loot is much higher than the lvl80 Ranger or Guardian ever got at low level. Kills are so fast if other people are around I move away so that I don’t take away their chance of kill credit.

Maybe it’s coincidental but I’m not so sure. I even get a lot more low lvl mats and loot bags than I’m used to. Hitting DR, no problem I still get trash worth a good bit of copper. I’ll keep testing with that character until it’s lvl80 just to see if there really is a difference.

Some people hit DR doing differenet events, killing different mobs, going to different zones, changing to an alt character, and all of this before the 2hours mark of playing the game.
Not all DR is created equal or at least it is biased at times. It is why there are huge threads asking the very question; is it working or is it bugged for some?

Thanks for that tip ^^ I thought the cultural weapons were identical to the armor.
Warden’s Torch it is!

I can’t resist the Unidentified dyes… I just can’t leave them as is.
I have over 100 BL chests in my bank and not going to buy keys so they are easy to ignore. Those dyes are just too compelling.
The only thing worse is loot bags… I wish I could sell them but there is that chance a core could be in there.

I wish I could give you some sort of credible answer to help. I only know that from experience I have hit DR after an hour of playing and it took a 24hr period to reset. It could be that it is reset at the same time daily is reset (I believe that is 7:00PM EST) but I am not totally sure if it actually does reset at that time or it takes a full 24hrs.
People have reported all different findings when it comes to DR.
I sent you to that thread because it had to do with Dragon chests failing to spawn and the developer clearly asked if those players had hit ‘event DR’ prior to fighting the dragon.
Those people then proceded to test how long the event DR lasted for them.
I wish I could help more. GL

There is DR on DE’s and in essence on DE’s associated karma, exp, and loot from said events as well.

A post from a dev (Jason King) asked if the players had hit DR on events prior.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Dragon-chest-bugged/first