Guild Wars 2

I am somewhat glad that the legendary armors suck, saves me from ever having to consider making them. Still kinda want the light shoes though….

Xstein.2187:

I also highly recommend watching the latest guild chat before complaining. They did try to keep with heavy, medium, light traditions because they believe all those class types should have a distinct look to them on glance. They explain that they did try to bring down the light armor to make it look more “clothy”. This is actually one of the reasons it took them so long. After they made legendary armor the first time, they believed that medium looked to much like heavy armor and light looked to much like medium armor. So, they basically redid it. And of course, I can’t speak for everyone, but I love the “combat” feel of the legendary light armor. This is also one of the reasons I loved the vigil light armor before the legendary armor. When you wore it, it made you look like you were wearing it for battle and not just to make yourself look “pretty” and “fashionable”. My goodness, your dressing to kill, not to go to the ball.

Really? This is what you call “battlefield appropriate”? https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Perfected_Envoy_armor_(light)_human_female_front.jpg

Also saw a bunch of elementals around one. Not sure if that was a coincidental overlap with a rift someone opened or if those events also open a rift.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

I’d suggest that a PS Warrior — that is, “Phoenix Strength”, which shares might with the team, plus banners — is also in the “support” bracket.

Really, though, I feel like the “support” role question shows a misunderstanding of how the game actually plays out, in that nobody is “just support”; everyone does DPS.

That would be Phalanx Strength

You need to wait until reset then go talk to the pale tree.

If there aren’t any events up like in the previous picture then it is probably just on cooldown.

Doesn’t that make it more interesting?

On the other hand … the episodes can be bought with gems. They are around 50g each. That is either a month of dailies or around a week of just world bosses(assuming you skip Teq).

If I absolutely must choose a class for those stats it would either be ele or guardian … not saying it would be great but I can’t think of a way to use it on the other ones.

Sounds like OP got a armor box drop.

It’s fairly easy to swap stats so that doesn’t matter much.

Mjölnir not Juggernaut.
or maybe Infinite Light, both take up a lot of charged lodestones.

He would be taking Silver Doubloons if it was Juggernaut.

Any cake based weapon is going to be categorized as silly.

Meh … if you don’t want to look up youtube videos then don’t.

On the other hand Draconis Mons is the only map I can think of where the devs messed up. The maps itself has more than 3 layers but the in game map only shows 3. There are also a couple of misleading roads on the southeast. There are like 3 paths stacked on top of each other combined with a map that is incapable of dealing with the layering.

Pretty sure that got fixed months ago. It does autoloot for me and the other people in the party the last two times I ran it. Were you downed or dead from the boss fight?

Donari.5237:

But sometimes you don’t want to have your spell land on the foe’s feet. For example the Druid staff has a floral barrier you can put up where missiles coming through it heal instead of damage. You want that between you and the enemy. So a quick tap of the hot key, drop the barrier where you want it, then tap the hot key again to get assisted ground targeting once more.

That isn’t necessary in most cases since the attack originates from the center of the enemy anyway. Snap would actually be ideal if people avoid moving the the enemy by running too far out of range. That way the barrier would still be in effect even if the enemy rotates to a different direction.

Nobody based on the fact that the one in Timberline Falls is still broken. -_-

Labjax.2465:

I think they should do away with HPs being a requirement for elite specs and instead have them be repeatable content that gives map-related rewards.

Something like:

HPs spawn on a timer, like most events, and are set to spawn more often during lulls in meta periods and more rarely (or never) during the most intense meta periods (ex: the octovine in VB).

There are already enough ‘stand around waiting for something to spawn’ in the game. It does not need more. That is just a terrible idea.

If you want to go with that argument it is also true for healing. For example poison and agony will reduce effectiveness.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Djinn.9245:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

zealex.9410:

on that matter can we pls start getting some serious legendaries?

It actually is a serious Legendary. I looked it up and found

“Flames of War is a Balthazar-themed torch. Acolytes, clad in red cowls, form a circle around the top of the torch, which resembles a summoning circle, surrounded by candles.” (and if you look you can see Balthazar in the summoning circle).

Which is nice to know cuz before I wiki’d it, I thought it was a cake surrounded by candles.

People can call it serious all they like, the problem is that you can’t see the detail so the detail doesn’t matter. What does matter is that from a normal perspective it looks like a cake.

Its like Graphic Design: if you design a poster but make the type too small for people to read without walking right up to it, you failed.

No, no. Not necessarily. You know that there are serious Legendaries and non serious ones. What if this is the start of a series that are both, like the picture that is a beautiful woman if seen one way and an old witch if seen another. This Legendary could be both a cake and Balthazar being summoned, it depends on your viewpoint!

It’s a pity that it’s not a Legendary of Balthazar jumping out of a cake wearing… not much, as that’s a Legendary I would have definitely crafted but obviously it’s a missed opportunity.

Maybe you are on to something. Maybe summoning Balthazar requires cake as one of the component.

Why do you need gear progression unless you just want higher stats for an easier game? If you also increase the stat of the mobs then you have no progression and all you have is a gear treadmill.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Conncept.7638:

This was suggested a million times at launch, and died down over time.

But so far as I remember the developers have made no indication they intend to make this change, nor have they made any justification for why it shouldn’t be made. It seems like such an obvious quality of life change that I can’t even fathom why the game didn’t launch that way.

If you are referring to the Content Guide, I don’t think any changes were requested at launch as the Content Guide did not appear until September of 2014’s Feature Pack with the New Player Experience.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-fresh-start-the-new-player-experience-in-guild-wars-2/

Also at launch the game did show all events.

Well … I have no way of verifying if it was actually literally all but I know there were times where the map was basically covered in event circles. Practically speaking that might as well be all even if it was not literally all.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

zealex.9410:

on that matter can we pls start getting some serious legendaries?

It actually is a serious Legendary. I looked it up and found

“Flames of War is a Balthazar-themed torch. Acolytes, clad in red cowls, form a circle around the top of the torch, which resembles a summoning circle, surrounded by candles.” (and if you look you can see Balthazar in the summoning circle).

Which is nice to know cuz before I wiki’d it, I thought it was a cake surrounded by candles.

That picture seem to be staring directly up one of the acolytes robes ….

When I first saw the video of someone using it I was wondering why the torch is a cake …

Meh … outgoing damage is also missing

Just did the Jaka Itzel flax farm on two characters using an ori sickle and I watched two other people use a gemstore sickle and everyone’s weapon stayed stowed.

Also tried it with Shooshadoo equipped. Giant icy explosion is hard to miss.

On the other hand gathering does trigger both Shooshadoo and Nevermore’s draw/stow sound effect so something has to be happening but that isn’t anything new either.

The second item doesn’t have an upgrade slot either. Looks like the same issue as the Forgotten Seal.

There aren’t any books for the newest legendaries. You just start with the recipe.

You don’t repeat that part. The item you get from the collection needs to be crafted after the first run.

Randulf.7614:

140g is a perfectly fine base to start a legendary from. Believe you me, I’ve started from far, far less with most of mine.

Out of curiosity, you say you are only 130 mastery so are a long way behind. Rather, do you mean you haven’t unlocked the full legendary crafting mastery? Realistically that’s all you need afaik.

Depends on where that 130 got spent. For HoT legendary you need Itzel, Exalted, Nuhoch and Gliding maxed out. That is a total of 131 points. You don’t need that much to start but you need to get there eventually.

Time required: around 11 months

1) do the daily everyday although you don’t have to be a slave to it, with a 11 month span an additional week or two shouldn’t be a big deal but that provides 2g per daily completion

2) if you have enough core mastery points to get Supply Line Management then visit the Pact Supply Network Agent daily. You can also visit the page by using the command “/wiki psna” in game without the quotes.

3) Check Map bonus rewords to see which map has the t6 you need and use the Pact Scount’s Mapping Materials that you bought from the Pact Supply Network Agent

4) Try to do one of the HoT map meta events. VB is probably easiest but it might not mesh well with your play time. Get the Amalgamated Gemstone from the Chest of the Verdant Brink Hero . Again you don’t have to have to stick to it daily and since there are 4 you can make up for missed days if you have a bit more time on other days.

5) In terms of the hard require for gold you need 190g. 100g for the ice runestones and 90 to buy the various recipe sheets from Miyani for the different gifts.

6) You will also need a lv400 weaponsmith as well as a lv500 of any crafting profession. Weaponsmith would make most sense to avoid spreading things out. If you don’t have a lv400 or 500 weaponsmith yet then DO NOT RUSH TO IT!. Wait until you are done with Astralaria’s tier 2 Basic Axe Requisition

7) If you have a Ley-Energy Matter Converter use it each day to get a free Machete. Once you have a bunch you can visit Dragon’s Stand to open some Noxious Pods for the crystalline ore. You will need a maximum of 250 machetes but it should be less. You can also buy machetes from the NPC in Dragon’s Stand but that requires currency from the other 3 maps. Participating in the Dragon’s Stand meta event will also give you a few Machetes.

8) Additional potentially hidden cost. You will need to salvage a piece of ascended weapon or armor to obtain a Ball of Dark Energy to make a Cube of Stabilized Dark Energy

9) Complete the collection for Zinn’s Prize Student . It is easy but it is also a 12 day time gate. If you have a spare character just park the character in the room for it so you don’t have to deal with the progress of events for Rata Novus.

10) For the gift of metal Lake Doric has a relatively easy to locate Rich Orichalcum node. Mithril is cheap and abundant. The Fisher’s Eye Bridges area in Timerline Falls usually has a decent amount of platinum in the area.

11) You will also need a Gift of Battle which requires doing the WvW reward track. This can be done in around 8 hours but there are ways to speed it up and there are alternatives to participating in WvW.

The gold you accumulate from the daily can be used to speed up any of the steps.

HazyDaisy.4107:

Finding yourself on wyvren hill during an active meta is as about as illegal as forgetting to wp before you logged off after you’d completed your meta.

Being there still requires that you did the meta, and unless you’d gotten everything back there before you logged off, you wouldn’t get 100%. If you decided to help others get back there, they still couldn’t get 100%, because from wyvren hill, there are 4 things behind those gates require a successful meta.

Opening the gates all the time wouldn’t help either, because the 3 towers have to be secured in order for them to be communed with, the boss chest hill is only accessible via updraft after a boss kill and wyvren hill is only accessible from the boss hill.

There have been some posts about breaking out of the map in DS. That might let you get to places without doing any of the meta.

Cyninja.2954:

Astralporing.1957:

Khisanth.2948:

It would be convenient. As for great … not really since you can just run through a “dead” DS and open a bunch of pods.

Pods appear only on finished events. And generally maps are divided in the succesful ones (hard to get into while they are running, impossible to get into after they’ve succeeded), and those that haven’t even started doing anything.
So, no, your suggestion doesn’t really work.

Actually he is right. Most dead maps will have 3-5 pods over their lifetime. Usually from the first events getting completed randomly.

How do I know? Because I’ve opened them often enough inbetween running alt characters to get the 30 easy hero points.

I’ve opened enough to craft Astralaria before the April patch.

Maps spawn with several pods. I haven’t kept track but someone on reddit who seems to have been doing it way before me claims 8. However some of those pods can be in very out of the way spots.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Really! Perhaps, something changed. I’ve always read that one was not allowed to choose.

Thanks for the update. =)

You can choose the server. You just can’t change server afterwards. I made my free account around 1 month after free accounts became available.

I have maybe 3Mbps on a good day so the 25Mbps is theoretically more than enough but bandwidth, latency and stability are all separate things.

A freight train full of hard drives has massive bandwidth but the latency would be measured in days. Imagine trying to activate a skill and having to wait 10 days for a response. :P

HazyDaisy.4107:

Until gliding came along you needed to complete the meta in SW to get a skill point and POI. You also needed to complete a good portion of a JP (or fall very precisely to your death) to get a POI in SW. Locking large portions of a map, or progression of any sort behind things people don’t find fun isn’t a new concept in this game. Patience on the other hand has always been a problem.

The VW PoI can be done solo even without gliding since you just need to be able to run in and you can get that far soloing the forts. Haven’t ever had the need to check if you can also get the HP that way.

As for the PoI in the puzzle that doesn’t need much precision either. Just get the first milestone then turn around and jump off the cliff. Die then get ress by the skritt and repeat until you are on the floor of the cavern then you just run over to Sand Dunes Cavern PoI.

You can see the breakdown of the AP sources when you hover over the total in the Achievements panel.

The point total from daily plus monthly is 15,000.

They work but the shield used to be rather finicky. It should be less crappy now.

The mechanic is also mostly not worth bothering with.

He isn’t very difficult in melee either but with the amount that he rolls around(or used to, haven’t paid much attention to the new version) you end up wasting a lot of time just chasing him down.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

It used to be free. It was changed to paid after players and guilds used this feature to mass transfer to one server, raise it up in the rankings then abandon it to go to a different server, leaving the abandoned server to struggle in a ranking that was now to high for it.

The decline of the Henge of Denravi due to server transfers

It could be worse. For example, WoW charges $25 for each character.

“This is why we can’t have nice things.”

Desolation also had a similar problem. Made worse by the matchmaking algorithm used back then.

ezd.6359:

Ashantara.8731:

Khailyn.6248:

but I can understand the situation since I was 3 days off of getting an achievement chest to buy another Gift of Battle before that change.

I apologize for going off-topic here, but I am curious (since I didn’t craft my first legendary weapon until after that change had already been implemented): How exactly was it before? Did you not have to grind a whole WvW track in order to get one of those?

You could just buy it for 500 badges of honor.

That is not very exact.

Original: Buy for 500 Badges of Honor but world completion requires doing all the WvW maps as well.

v2: WvW was removed from world completion and you only need 500 Badges of Honor

v3: Buying the badges requires having rank 50+ in WvW then a short while after it got reduced to rank 14.

v4: Current system with the reward track

In reality the only time where it would have been faster than the current approach is v2.

The reward track approach is actually much faster than the previous version if you are starting from WvW rank 0 and you are only making one or two legendary weapons.

It would be convenient. As for great … not really since you can just run through a “dead” DS and open a bunch of pods.

Those guild weapons and armors are throttled by the timegating on guild commendations.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Ascalonian_Woodcutter_Location.jpg

For the woodcutter. You don’t need to defeat the boss for that one.

There is also a non-RNG based supply from the HoT metas.

Also one from the Gift of Battle reward track but it that ever becomes a reason to do that reward track the prices of AG would be hideous along with all the stuff to make them.

Ayrilana.1396:

Khisanth.2948:

Behellagh.1468:

Cristalyan.5728:

Let see what else ANet said before:
1. HoT will contain a full set of legendary weapons – false

No, 7 months before HoT was dropped they said this:

For now, I’ll say that we’ve been working hard on new legendary weapons, the first handful of which will be introduced in Heart of Thorns, with more to come in subsequent updates.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-legendary-journey/

Same is true with Legendary Armors. All that was promised was work toward the precursor armor via Raiding.

It’s nice to see business relying on word play to mislead customers.

“I said there was no corpse in the trunk, I didn’t say anything about a skeleton.”

What about “the first handful” is misleading?

Is there a reason you are ignoring the rest of the sentence?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

It would need to be 4 for plants, as one can get 4 gathers from a single plant.

I haven’t noticed any ‘speed up’, but I wasn’t looking for one, either. I will try to pay attention next time I am in-game.

Pretty sure that would actually need to be 6.

At least they are back down to 8g from 12g?

Behellagh.1468:

Cristalyan.5728:

Let see what else ANet said before:
1. HoT will contain a full set of legendary weapons – false

No, 7 months before HoT was dropped they said this:

For now, I’ll say that we’ve been working hard on new legendary weapons, the first handful of which will be introduced in Heart of Thorns, with more to come in subsequent updates.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-legendary-journey/

Same is true with Legendary Armors. All that was promised was work toward the precursor armor via Raiding.

It’s nice to see business relying on word play to mislead customers.

“I said there was no corpse in the trunk, I didn’t say anything about a skeleton.”

Somethings look much better in concept art than in 3D art. I guess knowing what would translate well and what won’t is a skill on to itself.

Some of it might be engine limitations as well like the weird looking cloth animation on the various dresses, skirts and buttcapes.

“Manages to disappoint” implies that being impressive was almost a guaranteed thing. Considering how many people have been disappointed by legendaries already that was not an appropriate expectation.

Benjamin Arnold.3457:

Yeah sorry that you have to deal with the ping issues As others have said, all you can really do is try to anticipate where the orbs are going to be and put yourself 300ms ahead in time, since the server position is going to be 300ms behind.

I thought there was some lag compensation thing that adjust for at least some of that? There was a blog post about it a while back.

Music sometimes just get stuck between loading screens. I’ve had the Tequatl music playing in the guild hall and the SAB guild hall music playing at Jaka Itzel.