The Nightmare and Lich sets both used to give +20% condi duration upon having the 4pc bonus. I have really no idea why they changed it back to 10%. If you look at comparisons of other runes, these two sets are totally underpowered. You can get +10% duration from only 2 pieces of Mad King or Lyssa.
I was going for Fear:
50% Trait
10% Runes
40% Pizza
So the x6 bonus becomes a 2 sec fear which ticks twice? I want condition intensity and burst setting-up as a Condi and Terror/Master of Terror are really cool as well as a heck of a lot a fun!
You can go 2x lyssa or 2x mad king or 1 giver weapon
What is your crit damage in this build ?… Your condition duration seems to be cut in half…
i ditched condition duration runes for undead runes and only 10 in con duration tree but am still able to reliably stack 10-15 bleeds without having to jump through hoops and crit damage is 3% from karka ring :x allso im not useing givers weapons either ^.^
Then your condition damage you do is almost half of what it could be… and your bursting/power damage is about 40% lower as well…
Is it worth it ?… what you got in exchange for it ?…
I noticed you forgot to factor in food buffs, you can ditch the bleed duration runes and switch giver scepter to rabid if you use rare veggie pizza and go full Undead runes for condition damage/toughness or any other rune/orb you prefer.
@op
Material upgrading and putting up a buy offer instead of buying outright does wonders regarding this lack of supply you are talking about.
Believe me, there is always enough lodestones/cores being sold if you just patiently put up buy offers regularly. Even if supply gets bought out completely, actual price won’t fluctuate from what people are willing to pay for them and your orders will be filled.
As for fighting mobs to get lodestones outright(no cof p1 farming), go do the corresponding dungeons that drop what you want, they are fun/challenging compared to mindlessly killing 1 type of mob for hours on end… (I myself got more than enough onyx lodestones without buying a single one in TP just by doing TA, and if you want destroyer/charged SE & CoE are quick and easy to run too).
Corrupted lodestones are a bit of a problem though.
You played about 8 hours per day for 7 months straight.
OP may also have left his client open or in the background while afk or doing other things, checking in only for chest spawns etc. so it might be bloated.
I prolly got hundreds of hours from afk/just checking in for a chest spawn myself lol.
The point is as others and myself have stated, there simply needs to either be more supply so that they are around 1g each not 3g. Or there needs to be more ways to get them so we can continue to play the game the way we want. Its not so much the time spent to get it. Its the fact you have to do only max profit things for this item vs a legendary which takes doing a lot of different tasks.
Here’s a list of activities you currently can do to acquire charged lodestones:
1) any gold generating activity then buy mats from TP (almost all activities generate gold)
2) do WvW and get them from heavy loot bags (wvw activity)
3) kill wisps/air elementals in Orr (general pve activity)
4) do CoE/FoTM runs (instanced activities)
5) any karma generating activity(wvw, de’s, dungeons) then buy orrian boxes
Admittedly CoF P1 farm(too good compared to others) and WvW(too bad compared to others) ways of acquiring them are not balanced.
So which way are you playing the game which doesn’t reward you towards your goal of Mjolnir?
And as for comparing them to making legendaries, just look at the list, everything you need to craft a legendary is also the same.
So given that you said that its not actually the time spent to get it, you can progress towards Mjölnir doing virtually anything ingame except spvp.
This is a general problem with the entire game imo.
Corrupted lodestones are another. I’ve put in ~10 hours of farming and gotten only one.
I’m sure all the statistics monkies will tell me that my sample rate is too low. But here is what I say. If you have any item with a drop rate that is sub (and I mean SUB) a full percentage to drop than you clearly hate your players.
I would rather get 1-3 an hour of a rare material and need more of them than need only a few and the drop rate be so bad that you are lucky to see one a week. There HAS to be a reasonable rate of reward to effort or otherwise you just feel like you’re having your time wasted.
I expect a certain amount of farming in a game and I understand the rock/hard place that a developer is in with trying to balance play time to high level gear acquisition. But the way drop rates are right now the only thing I feel is that the grind is making the whole game less and less fun to play.
Thats exactly my point and I agree. A big portion of this game, especially with the implementation of transmutation, is looking awesome. I spend forever on google, TP, and at vendors trying to mix and match what I want to look like and setting my goals. Now I get to weapons and kitten if it glows or sparks or is on fire you better give up the next 2 months of your life getting it. I know they don’t want people who play a lot to get bored but those people are going to farm that crap quick no matter how long you make it take. I’ve seen entire guilds trading off helping each other get legendaries. I am not saying there is anything wrong with that but if someone is dedicating 8+ hours a day doing nothing but farming the exact same thing over and over again to get it then hott kitten let em have it in a week. They deserve it. But going a week of farming every day and feeling like your making no progress is just stupid. There is a serious lack of reward in this game period outside of dungeons. I can’t remember the last time I found some random eventless champ in a mountain, spent half an hour fighting it, and got better than a blue or maybe kitten green that I probably can’t even use. Exploration rewards jack crap in this game and drop rates on good loot or mats is just obismal.
Just curious, what activities do you do with the 8 hours in a day you play?
700g is wow, but isn’t there a limiting factor to your cash flow because you require 200 deadly blooms per nightmare coil = under 8g, how fast can you farm 200 deadly blooms after doing daily runs of each path?
Its not as profitable as november/december last year(as high as 30g+ a coil), I personally stopped farming TA a month ago.
You’re probably better off doing CoF P1 with omnoms and gold infusion now.
There have been a number of issues with legendaries, so in the interest of making sure everyone is on the same page, here are the recent and current issues I’m aware of:
—FIXED— Transmuting a legendary prior to equipping it will not award the legendary achievement
—Active— Legendary weapon precursors cannot be used to create their legendary weapon if they’ve been transmuted
—Active— Precursors Twilight and Sunrise do not provide the Legendary Treasures account medal.
We are continuing to work on these. Thank you for your patience!
Twilight/Sunrise made before the fix still don’t count for legendary collector achievement too.
—FIXED— Transmuting a legendary prior to equipping it will not award the legendary achievement
—Active— Precursors Twilight and Sunrise do not provide the Legendary Treasures account medal.
Does it mean that transmutated legendary is now real legendary not just an exotic with specific label and name?
Why have you called Twilight and Sunrise “precursors”? Thay aren’t precursors. They are legendaries.
They are technically both precursors for Eternity even if they are of Legendary grade
You get to gather more orichalcum and wood per day.
yup, that’s one of the motivation too, although i go for omnom rather than wood….
Another one is dungeon rewards.
The change they made to dungeon DR a couple of weeks/months ago made it possible to go through fast dungeon paths without waiting for around 2 hours to do it again on an alt to get maximum rewards as long as you don’t spam it consecutively.
The only thing that will be changed is that the guaranteed rare drop will now be account bound. Everything else remains the same. You will be able to open the regular event chests once per day per event per character as before. You will still have the same drop chances as before.
@Martin: does the rare from the account bound chest have a chance to be exotic or a precursor as well, or is it just a rare, permanently, now?
When the rares were tied to the event chest, that means it was higher on the loot table and pull exotics out (see: Final Rest being uncovered). Does this mean it will be harder now to get exotics at all like it was before the chests were changed in February’s patch?
Each boss’s guaranteed rare item drop will be moved to a separate chest.
So exotic drop rate will stay the same since its not a guaranteed drop.
Final Rest went up because speculators expect a less number of people would run the SB event after this patch and Final Rest’s supply would go down.
I just wanna ask, Why is that my Energizer still has the saying that “This weapon is used to craft the legendary mace The Moot” How come that I cant make my legend? But the blue text is still there? I just transmuted it. Cause I know that I can still make my legend even if the item is transmuted.
Transmutation destroys the item and creates a new one that keeps the skin + stats transmuted to it.
Right now only the original precursor(non-transmuted) will work on a recipe. Same for Twilight/Sunrise → Eternity, Lidless Eye → Eye of Rodgort etc.
When i tried to destroy some Obi Shards (Legendary Quality) I had to type the whole name of the item. If that didnt happen when salvaging your sunrise you should send a ticket.
Same thing for legendary quality PvP items, but then again this vid shows a confirmation(without having to type the name of the legendary item):
Cool, thanks everyone! Congrats on your legendaries (if you have since acquired them). Hopefully I’ll be joining you soon haha
For the sigil though, I feel like the nullification thing is kinda pointless… I would much rather have sigil of force or something that would help me 100% of the time, rather than 60% of the time ON the off chance of getting a critical hit.. So multiply those percentages and well.. I’d rather have something else haha..
you could always change the sigil on your Bifrost after you make it…
I grinded out the 420g that it cost for me to buy my Dawn. Why can’t you?
I did it hardcore over a week and a half. If you don’t want to grind you can get it in a month.
A lot of people can only play a few hours a day, if that, and not necessarily everyday. Let’s say you can play two nights during weekdays for an hour, then 2 hours on sat and sun for a total of 6 hours a week. At your estimated 3.5g/hour, it would take 20 weeks to get a precursor. And that’s only half the battle.
So is there anything wrong if alot of people(casuals) take 10 months to make legendary(going by those estimates)?
Legendaries are common enough as it is without the scavenger hunt and it’ll be alot easier when they do implement it.
Is there any accessories that contain those 3 stats that can be crafted? the only ones I found on the trading post where the root and colossus tooth and they’re unbelievably expensive.
Those are all crafted (including Plague, rabid ring stats) by lvl 400 Jeweler and not through MF.
Getting the recipe to unlock them is another story though
Oh really? Feels like they added a gear grind to me!
1 vial of condensed mist essence
50 ectoes
40 crystals
250 t6 fine crafting materials
Oh right, that should be SO easy for anyone to obtain.
Exactly, going from 5 Ectos per piece to 50 seems a little like a grind to me. Also going from 5 T6 materials to 250. This is absurd.
This is just for 1 piece. So, to expand on this, going from 60 Ectos for a completed set of Exotics, including Jewelry, to 600 Ectos.
Yeah, no grind. This does not amount to fun for me.
If we go the Karma route, which has not been talked about yet. Baseline of 42k Karma. So, will it be double or ten times as much for a piece of gear? 252k for a full set to 504k or 2,250k (2,520,000) for a full set?
It’s not just going from 5->50 ectos and 5->250 t6 fine mats
What’s worse is they nerfed Orr drop rates to the ground so you can’t log in for an hour or two everyday and get a couple of ectos/gold. The grind for an Ascended item(even exotics) is much tougher now.
For those with newer graphics cards try checking your graphics cards’ bus
interface if its running at PCIE 2.0 × 16
I suddenly had terrible FPS yesterday with a I5 2500k, 6970 2gb and 8GB DD3 ram.
When I was messing with CCC I noticed Maximum Bus Setting was PCIE 2.0 x1.
You can also use GPU-Z to check this(Bus Interface label).
I cleaned the contacts of my graphics card and motherboard and reseated the graphics card.
GW2 is running smoothly again with PCIE 2.0 x16 bus interface setting.
