Guild Wars 2

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Not that it means anything at all, but I found a Silver Doubloon in my inventory yesterday; something that rarely happens outside by dedicated L21 parked JP character.

I was surprised.

Could be a bug, like the L80 Boost one; stranger things have happened. =)

That is not so strange. Silver Doubloons are part of the map bonus rotation. It is available on a map every week. If you have done at least 10 events in Gendarran Fields since Thursday reset then you would have one. Completing JPs also count as events.

They also drop from the ascended material eaters.

There are already several types of sorting bags …

As for “good” loot the closest a game will ever come to that is to create the illusion by having a gear treadmill and keep churning out seemingly better loot. That is just lying to yourself to make you feel better. I want no part of that kind of system.

Once his bar is broken in that last phase you just hit him until he is dead. If the bar comes back up before then you just repeat. That last phase is fairly pointless since it is the easiest of any fight in the whole instance. The instance owner also has to kill him with one last stomp.

What do you consider high level gliding? Lean Techniques should be sufficient to get there. I never bother using the ley line since that thing is unreliable.

felincyriac.5981:

I had more trouble with that fat dude in episode 4 of ls3, mostly coz I didn’t know wtf was going on. I went in to the fight in a full set of Armour, came out butt naked, but then again I’m using a necro…

Only died with the gliding part, wasn’t expecting him to start chucking rocks at me.

Necro should be easiest of any class though ultimately build matters more than class. I’ve only done that fight with my necro and I doubt any of my other characters will have an easier time even though those characters will have the benefit of prior experience.

Necro is also the only character where I can sorta brute force my way through the “gliding” with shroud. :P

Flax dropped in price because additional things started dropping flax seeds. That is a pretty simple increase in supply. For example I have seen them drop from the mobs that you kill during the Itzel hunting event. The drop rate isn’t high but the number of mobs spawned can be very high and those events occur extremely frequently.

The price of silver doubloons have dropped but there doesn’t seem to be any major change to the supply on the TP.

They could start with fixing the audio that lies to people.

The breakbar scales with the size of the party and not the number of people alive but the rift will only give one person’s worth of breakbar damage. I ran into that while doing it with my friends. Luckily I was on an elementalist, had Adrenal Mushrooms and you can get out of combat once the rift is available and the minions are all killed. Turns out Tornado is actually useful for something.

That depends on the exact mobs. Anything with a breakbar would be immune to it. Also there are some multiple hit attacks that aren’t very obvious such as when bears use their maul attack or a boar’s launch skill.

A good time to do this is when Triple Trouble is about to spawn. Check the LFG to see if a group like TTS or EVOS is organizing for it. They will generally try to do it on a new instance which means this event should be working there as well. TTS also has their schedule of events on their website.

Have you done the Shards of a Thorn collection?

Broken Caladbolg can’t be salvaged. Whatever you may have done with the sword that wasn’kitten

Also if you have gotten to the step of giving her the vision crystal then there is no need for the broken caladbolg anymore.

Astralporing.1957:

Khisanth.2948:

Still beats Giant Eyes. 0 in 4 years.

Those are at least a map reward now.

That is what finally moved it from 0 to something higher.

DoctorDing.5890:

Price rise may be a side effect of the end of AB multiloot. Some squads would stay together after the ML and hop maps to harvest the two nodes next to the vendor.

You could typically harvest 16-20 nodes in a few minutes.

Nah. The price is a direct result of the Caladbolg stuff. Some people are probably still unaware that you can unlock all the skin with just 4000 unbound magic. Alternatively they know but this is still a very cheap way to make an almost legendary sword/dagger/scepter/shield/greatsword.

Speaking of joke weapons …

great start for a GS :P

Lumpy Forehead.2193:

The new legendary pistol is the best looking pistol in the entire game.

Supersoaker pistol? :P

Did you check around the home instance? She is not at the same location as during the quest.

Still beats Giant Eyes. 0 in 4 years.

2 does around 20-30k assuming your aim was good and it isn’t moving around.

1 is fairly weak unless you get close to the target, it did half the damage as my autoattack from far away, up close it did around 3x as much

Heh .. I checked my TP history yesterday since I sold every one I got since HoT came out. Total of 5 lilies despite how much I play and I try to gather every Jungle Plant I run across. 5 in a year is a pretty bad rate even if I didn’t play as much as I did.

It would be nice if the preview window got an overhaul …

It hasn’t really made any difference for me. I play staff, scepter/focus, dagger/warhorn

HardRider.2980:

Clearly you didn’t take the moment to take a look at the NPC’s around you and just click on the npc and not read anything.

You can now at least craft the other items apparently.

Not quite. You can craft the items needed to redo the “quest” on other characters. Though it is more like you must craft if you want to do it on another character.

At least it isn’t more expensive like it was before?

Suddenly I don’t feel as bad about accidentally buying too much silk

The choice is who you walk up to. The dialog is the confirmation.

You may want to take a look at what your traits do.

Skill 1 hits 3 times by default the damage popup is a sum of all hits. As long as there isn’t a break longer than a certain time period the damage will continue to be added to the popup. Some of the other channelled skills used to have the same bug. Some of those skills used to have the bug, got fixed then have the bug return.

Another thing with the same bug is the flamethrower at Claw of Jormag.

The new Grandmaster Leatherworker Mark for buying from vendors cost 50+65 refined t5 leather. I guess that is why the farm gives so much of it…

Hmm … you love exploration but not as much as you love gold

Possibly fixed …

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-February-22-2017/6504219

Confusion: Fixed a bug in which the player could take a massive amount of damage if holding a ranged autoattack down while their target is behind them.

You could get the elder wood from malchor which already resets hourly and sell that to buy the flax seeds. Every 5.6 Elder Wood tree is equal to the VB flax farm.

shows a player’s mastery of the appropriate crafting discipline

I don’t see how it would show that if it could be traded.

I do hope that it will be tradeable even if it doesn’t affect me and allowing it to be traded will still satisfy

Ascended crafting is vital to sustaining a healthy economy and it is important that we keep that in place even when a player acquires ascended items via a vendor.

but won’t end up forcing everyone to craft. On the other hand that will result in more gold floating around in the economy since less of it is being destroyed via the NPCs.

daw.4923:

i was allways wondering why ppl looking for REASONS in games…. its a game, you can drop sword from wolf…. been here since ever.
if you are still not convinced,think about AB and that you basicly stealing things from theirs coffins..

Those aren’t coffins and it is basically “hey you helped defend our city! here have some stuff”. Not sure why we need to buy keys for those chests though.

The more confusing thing is the labyrinth after Vinewrath. Why does that exist at all?

Who is stuffing random gemstones into trees all over the world? Are they angry at me for stealing all their hidden troves?

The spout that spawns near where the NPCs huddle up seems reliable and it is easy to locate.

Randulf.7614:

Sometimes you also have to zone for the nodes to reset. Flax resets at the same time as the daily, but you need to leave and return for the flax to reappear.

Unfortunately that is not the case for for Unbound Magic or Fresh Winterberries.

Fluffball.8307:

I’m not seeing anything worse than a trait that applies a conditional cripple once every half a minute. I win.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Powerful_Synergy

Unless some other class is around to provide a water it does practically nothing. Auras do not stack so that is no effect. Extra stack of blind/weakness? Meeeh. 2s of daze instead of 1s? Only useful when dealing with breakbars or maybe in a PvP(not WvW since there is a ICD on how frequently you can strip stability stacks) scenario where you are trying to strip stability stacks. Double duration of stealth? I don’t even know what to say about that one.

Additionally Predator’s Instinct is only adept tier while Powerful Synergy is grandmaster tier. Maybe Powerful Synergy actually allows you to jump through two stacked fields and proc one of each but that would still require someone else to provide a field since warrior can only generate fire fields. Requiring another class to be around is a much harsher condition than a 50% health threshold.

Orpheal.8263:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Repeater
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Twisting_Fangs
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stab_

The most useless Skills in the whole Game as they require of you to abandon valuable Stat Points by forcefully equipping only one out of your two 1h Weapons, just so that you become even able to use these Skills based on what your Main hand Weapon is …

Nothing, absolutely nothing is more useless, than this garbage…Fluffs mentioned trait even has some kind of small usage compared to this junk here

That is the pessimist’s view.

The optimist’s view would be that without those skills a thief wielding a single main hand weapon would only have 2 skills instead of 3. Their only purpose is to fill the slot and they do that well enough. None of those skills are better than any of the alternatives so not having them isn’t a sacrifice.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Revealed_Training – A trait, that is like felt 90% of all the time you play useless, unless you get into a short window of revealed, or enemies put some long lastign reveals on you, the only moment, where the trait becomes for a longer tiem useful for the time that you lose the ability to stealth and run around like a kill target on the silver platter that has lost its only effective defensive mechanism

+200 power is roughly equivalent to a sigil of force. That is hardly useless unless you think a thief doesn’t have enough ways to trigger revealed. Revealed Training is just being scapegoated because the alternatives are worse.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Keen_Observer – a trait, that becomes mostly useless immediately after you take just 1 hit from your foe … great trait design, really ….NOT

That is also true for Superior Rune of the Scholar’s 6th bonus. Last time I checked that was a very popular rune.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Concealed_Defeat – Best way to tell your target – IM HERE, KILL ME OFF /facepalm

Against AI they see exactly where you are regardless.

Against a human player they will see where you are as well unless you just lost a fight against a blind person. The primary benefits of that trait would be the CD reduction. The aim is to not get downed in the first place which is what the CD reduction helps with since it allows you to use those skills more often and they are mostly defensively oriented.

CptAurellian.9537:

I offer the guardian elite signet: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_of_Courage
Hilariously long passive interval for a paltry heal and a suicide button when you activate it.

Full health equals suicide? O_o

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Secondly, at launch, nearly all nodes were refreshed at reset (the only exceptions being Ancient & Ori, which have an internal ‘cool down’ in addition to the reset mechanic). ANet removed this from the game (as I recall, it was early in 2013) without explanation. I speculated at the time that it was to prevent people doing what I was doing: park a toon at a node farm, login at 5 minutes to reset, collect loot, and login again after reset — that is, getting double rewards for the same effort.

For things that already have a daily limit such as node farms and free floating unbound magic making them respawn at reset would make very little difference on how many can be obtained and the effort required. The “doubling” or 100% increase you describe only exist on the first/second day. After a year of doing it the benefit drops to 0.27% increase.

Daily crafting and home instance nodes already work the way OP describes.

Rognik.2579:

sazberryftw.3809:

I can’t believe this thread is so long who doesn’t have swiftness/speed boost? Topic title is a lie

No, the topi title isn’t a lie. The peach daily IS gated… to one peach a day. Which is the entire point.

That is not quite true either. You can get one on every character and it is account bound.

You should ask the person responsible for gw2efficiency to add that to the site. The sampling is skewed but that is around 100k accounts.

You get another book. There is no need to keep the book for the letters though you probably want to until you are done. Every time you interact with a letter you get a new book if you don’t already have one.

The hatchling, reef drake and firestorm are also available through the wardrobe unlock so in theory you could get it through that …

The scythe appears on the wrong part of the staff when used by a necromancer.

This was on a Norn.

Meh … there is only one problem and it doesn’t need that many words to describe it.

GW2 simply doesn’t have very many interesting fights. Partly because the enemies seem to lack any sort of intelligence while the combat system requires enemies to have more than other games(at the time of release). For example being able to LoS stack enemies should have been fixed ages ago. Instead they have to make every boss room into a circle devoid of any other feature.

Isn’t the karka hatchling supposed to be a rare drop from karkas or veteran karkas? Did the supply change with the release of Ember Bay?

Healix.5819:

Paulytnz.7619:

Fluffball.8307:

I’ve done it 3 times solo or with like 1 guy coming along halfway to help. Maybe you’re just on the wrong map.

Are you talking about simply beating the event which is simple to do or get that achieve done? All it takes is one supply to be stolen and game over – no achieve.

When it’s actually scaled for 1-3 people (default), only 2 carriers spawn and they can be quickly killed. The problem is, the event’s range is huge and includes the entire nearby town. It’s becoming more of a problem where events are located near hotspots, such as vendors, hearts or waypoints. Hopefully it becomes even more of a problem, then they might actually rework contribution and scaling.

Event scaling in HoT has been broken since release. HoT has been out for over a year. What are the chances they will fix it when they have already moved on to working on the next expansion?

Fluffball.8307:

I’ve done it 3 times solo or with like 1 guy coming along halfway to help. Maybe you’re just on the wrong map.

Just takes a couple people AFKing at the wrong spot.

Tekoneiric.6817:

Ardid.7203:

I try to never do anything in the game for the rewards. If it is not fun by itself, I prefer to do something else. That said I stoped doing the AB meta when the multiloot became the standard, because people behavior became too toxic. Now I may go back to it again.

I think the toxic attitude started when the announcement of the pending nerf hit. Many were scrambling to do it as much as they could. Had they not announced it there never would have been that crazed attitude around it. While I don’t agree with the nerf I think it should never have announced it in advance. They should have just done it and moved on. All the announcement did was hype it up as the event to do.

Started? I guess you never did it near HoT’s release.

Coinhead.7591:

EDIT:
A direct example of this skill in action is that I was able to solo https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Coztic_Itzel_Belongings Hero Point -event on my ranger. Even though the boss got me downed 3 times he was unable to finish the job because with ranger downed pet heal skill and the signet life gain I was gaining too much life for the boss and was able to constantly rezz my self as a ranger. I hadn’t been able to get the hero point before.

What do you think?

That is not entirely true. It only needed to down you one more time and you would have gone directly to defeated unless the signet also removes downed penalty.

I feel like this has been one of the most useless masteries we have gotten so far but I feel the same about all the traits that are related to being downed.

Evan Lesh.3295:

babana.7521:

Please send my character back where I was before I enter a PvP match in PvE queueing.

Thank You Very Much, I am mapping and queueing for PvP, today, I find that I am being send to the nearest entrance/exit of a map after my match.

The extra running and WP coins use is not actually welcoming.

Please fix thanks.

Interesting… My character does not do this. Thanks for the report.

Most likely part of another bug or whatever causes the game to lose track of your character’s location. Disconnects often cause this. Sometimes the game gets so confused it doesn’t even know what map you are supposed to be in and sends you over to the north entrance of Lion’s Arch. I have wondered what would happen to a P4F account that isn’t allowed to enter LA yet and run into that bug.