Guild Wars 2

Paulytnz.7619:

Right click and find the source of the sender, no doubt it’s from China……Delete/ignore.

The last one I got was from France with a relay in South Africa and associated with a domain registered with a registrar in Australia. -_-

Dealing damage with the staff on ele means using the control skills in the other 3 attunements to cripple/chill/immobilize/stun/push the enemy.

No for kit swap. I was just fighting Tricksy Trekksa earlier and I was swapping to Grenade Kit to stop the auto attacks.

I don’t have any traits that does things when I swap kit.

I(and others in my guild) have been doing that since beta. The only times I’ve had issues was due to my connection(my ISP seems to think 50% packet loss is acceptable service) and not because I was playing on an EU server.

That being said a friend who is also in guild has had unplayable lag due differences in routing since we use a different ISP. When using a different ISP or proxying through a connection on a different ISP the problem goes away. Then there is the person who has a similar issue but only on weekends, especially around the daily reset.

So the answer is both yes and no.

Your friend can try it for a week and see how it goes. If it doesn’t work out they can transfer for free by deleting all their characters. Names are reserved for something like 24 hours.

KOPPER.1458:

why would using quartz kitten people?

Well right now you need about 8 people to not want their quartz for every one who does just to keep up with charging one crystal per day. That might be possible now but with new people buying the game and some existing people leaving the game there is going to be a supply problem.

So either quartz won’t be used or there will be additional sources of it before additional uses for it are added.

Behellagh.1468:

No the NA and EU TPs are one, I think JS mentioned that.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/New-to-TP/2003009

As for China, who knows. I would say no because they will be starting at 0g in the economy and it wouldn’t be fair for them to have a TP economy fully mature.

Fairness aside it would probably have to remain separate for other reasons. For example the various LS updates for China is likely to be behind the rest simply because of the time needed for localization and going through the review process.

I am pretty sure the Cutthroat Politics LS update is going to have to be be removed/greatly changed for China as well due to the the whole voting thing.

At the very least the Chinese release is going to need some time to catch up. With the LS updates that might not be possible. Having a shared TP would mean having stuff show up before their associated updates.

Someone has also mentioned before that there is actually a Chinese law that would require the TPs to be separate but I haven’t been able to find any references to that law.

Looks like the usual issue with snow and anything that provides light.

Gaile Gray.6028:

Uman.6150:

I think I figured out why some player are getting lots of spam (and phishing) from the email address noreply@guildwars.com (and not from guildwars2.com).

The spf of the domain ‘guildwars.com’ is invalid:

• “v=spf1” “include:mailgun.org” “?all”

should be

• “v=spf1 include:mailgun.org ~all”

(like guildwars2.com)

Cheers
PS: Please notify me upon fixing.

That’s interesting. I’m not sure if we can make the changes suggested, but I’ve passed it along to the team responsible for sending out our emails. Thanks!

Well someone has fixed it already.

guildwars2.com. 428 IN TXT “v=spf1 include:mailgun.org ~all”

All these emails I’ve been getting claims they were sent in 2011. Before anyone’s account even existed. Before anyone knew what the release date was going to be.

3xtransmutation stone + 1 mystic forge stone = 1 transmutation crystal
seems pretty reasonable to me for both ANet and players.
It would make them more useful than either at the moment.

The middle one is the one you interact with after you set the coordinates so that part is fine. I’ve only ever used the lamp on the left since it is closer to the console.

Da Sonic.6521:

At certain angles, I believe all 3 grenades travel on the exact same path.

Certain angles and target surfaces. Surfaces which cause grenades to clump together will also cause things like elementalist’s Meteor Shower to drop all the metors on a single spot.

The thing you are supposed to destroy looks like a lamp post.
Once you destroy it the golem will move. You interact with the console the golem was sitting at before.

The relic got replace by Crystalline Dust in the recipe.

If you are farming experience any profession will do. I would avoid places with many people. Tagging becomes irrelevant The exploration bonuses can provide up to 250% extra exp. Gathering also gives more exp than killing something.

Brian.9125:

The hardcore farmers and the hardcore traders will always be the ones that come out ahead, just as they always have been.

Casual players are in a pretty good spot right now though. Gold faucets are everywhere. Doing any dungeon will net you at least 3g. Heck, I’m pretty sure with the way prices on the tp are right now just running around gathering nodes could net you somewhere in the 10g an hour range. If you expect to be rewarded for standing around doing nothing though … well … thats just silly.

I haven’t timed it but I know I can get 1.5-2g for a relatively quick gathering run. I guess if I used multiple characters that can be 10g in an hour. With respawns that might even be sustainable. However making 10g/h through gathering and selling is not the same thing as generating 10g/h from CoF/Gauntlet/whatever. Gathering and selling to get 10g/h just shifts gold around(with some being destroyed in the process through taxes and fees) but generating 10g/h is pulling gold out of thin air.

You can alt drag between bank slots and also from bank/collection slots to inventory. It doesn’t have to be taken out of the bank first. This is assuming you mean your personal bank and not the guild bank. For the guild bank you have to move the items into your inventory first if you want to stack or split.

SniffyCube.6107:

hurray anet! thank you for turning more servers into medium pop! please let this be for more than just one weekend too

That is probably just from increasing capacity for the incoming free trial thing starting on the 23rd.

SniffyCube.6107:

Faranox.4217:

lordkrall.7241:

Because not all servers focus on WvW?

The reason for the “high” cost is to stop people from jumping between servers every week.

I know not all servers have a high WvW population/focus, but the transfer fee system took WvW into consideration. If transfers were still free people would be jumping ship to the winning server each match-up.
I also understand that it’s to keep people from jumping servers to complete PvE activities more than once per day (or something like that, I don’t play PvE much).

That said, I think WvW population should be taken into account when determining the transfer fee to join a server.

You can PvE on any server for free through the guesting system.

While this is true the guesting system is missing one very important feature. The ability to remember which server you are guested one. Right now if someone has one home server and wants to play on another server most of the time they have to go through the guesting process every single time they relog or change character.

azurrei.5691:

Khisanth.2948:

That is not a bug. If you want an exotic gilded strongbox every time. Go do lv80 stuff. Doing low level things means you have a chance of getting low level loot.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Troll-Wasp-Boar-Oak/2543844

Champion rewards will be different based on their level. However, like other loot rewards if you’re a high level player in a lower level area there is a chance you’ll receive rewards based on your actual level rather than the area you are in each time they drop.

There are also 7 different exotic item ids that have the name “Gilded Strongbox”. The one dropped from the shaman(also dropped by Aldus Stormbringer) is the only one with the wrong icon.

Fair enough, so what you are saying is at a bare minimum the icon is bugged – I really wish all Gilded Strongbox loot tables (exotic) were equal…perhaps this Gilded Strongbox (exotic) loot table is bugged as well?

If you are trying to find a reason for the low supply of Genesis you should be looking at the Gilded Coffer’s loot table instead. Those drop from risen and it can drop both Genesis and Entropy. Compare the supply of the two. The people farming CS champions are also getting the exotic box each time versus the random chance of getting the exotic box from the maw shaman.

It is also possible people find Genesis more desirable overall. As far as I am aware it is also the only exotic hammer with cavalier’s stat that you can get without having to do fractals so even people who don’t want the skin might still want it.

That is not a bug. If you want an exotic gilded strongbox every time. Go do lv80 stuff. Doing low level things means you have a chance of getting low level loot.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Troll-Wasp-Boar-Oak/2543844

Champion rewards will be different based on their level. However, like other loot rewards if you’re a high level player in a lower level area there is a chance you’ll receive rewards based on your actual level rather than the area you are in each time they drop.

There are also 7 different exotic item ids that have the name “Gilded Strongbox”. The one dropped from the shaman(also dropped by Aldus Stormbringer) is the only one with the wrong icon.

If you are all done with hearts then you are missing either Orr, WvW or cities(and Chantry but that is only one POI).

WvW counts for completion. Orr does not have any hearts.

What exactly is that article supposed to be? It reads like speculation mixed with some contradictions. Sounds like he knows more about the path GW2 is taking than Colin in his interview at http://www.guildwars2hub.com/features/interviews/colin-johanson-interview-looking-ahead-part-2 . Who or what is his source?

Possibly related. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/New-Crafting-Recipes-for-500-time-gated-1/first#post2647877

Welcome to the not so wonderful world of RNG based content.
I was running around with a friend doing these as well. He was lucky enough to get 5 types at 5 towers. These are also going to be around until September 3rd.

Jayne.9251:

Fergie as in Mike Ferguson maybe? No idea on the other.

Probably Tyler Chapman. If you are on an opposing team can you destroy the houses when attacking? :P

It affects allies as well.

Supporting the game in any language implies more than just having the client available in those languages. There is hiring customer support people with the right language skills then there is all the NPC chatter and various other voiceover. There is probably plenty of other things I’ve missed.

You might be fine with just the text but for every person who is okay with that there is at least one who isn’t. Sooner or later you’ll also get people lobbing accusations of doing a kitten job(which isn’t entirely false if they only translate the text).

You would keep the glow but lose the AR.

Septemptus.7164:

Khisanth.2948:

Only if you think Celestial is good or that they will add additional recipes. Using them for t7 would be horrible … time gating on top of time gating.

If you havent readed a lot of crafting from 400 to 500 and esspecially parts for ascended gear and precursors will be time based crafting.

The individual t7s will already have a daily limit so even if you had infinite charged quartz you can only make a set amount per day. That is what I meant by time gating on top of time gating.

As for investing in quartz. What do you think is the maximum price ANet will allow? They are likely to have a cap in mind and if the prices get too high they can just bring the Sanctum back.

For the Dragon Bash food and Zhaitaffy the event is stated as being annual so aiming for a 1 year investment time seems like a bad idea. That aside their maximum price is capped by the cost of the equivalent crafted food. I don’t think anyone would be willing to pay more for something less convenient(DB foods needs to be refreshed more frequently).

It looks like you can get around 6g/stack of profit for each of them IF they hit those prices. I don’t think they will because people are willing to pay anywhere from 300% to 1119% more for the longer duration food. Willingness to pay those prices is based on the buy order prices for the crafted food. There are people who are saying they are willing to pay 0.221c/s for Omnomberry Tarts instead instantly buying Dragonfly Cupcakes which cost 0.058c/s.

You will end up with 10,500/15,500. You can also check with a fine/masterwork weapon.

At level 37 right now you have some very easy access to gold. Get some steel sickle/axe/picks and start chopping/mining. Both Gold Ore and Seasoned Wood Logs are selling for nice amounts right now. Do the same with platinum when you are high enough level.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gold_Ore_%28node%29
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Platinum_Ore_%28node%29
The wiki has some locations for the rich nodes. Some of those will always spawn in the same location.

Katreyn.4218:

I will agree with most people saying once wasn’t so bad. I do complete maps on my alts, but I’ll never finish world completion on them again unless I ultimately have to for some reason (general pve map completion isn’t boring to me, but its not hard at all either when you know what to do everywhere). The WvW part just took a very long time more then anything. That and all the bugged skill points in Orr back in the day.

I wouldn’t call it a chore compared to doing like weapon master achievements. Especially for off-hands. Have fun farming critters somewhere. >.<

Weapon mastery actually turned out very well for me. Gained a new appreciation for scepter on both elementalist and guardian. I really didn’t like it on either in the beginning but I’ve learned to use it better on both because of doing scepter master. Having to avoid weapon swapping also added an extra bit of challenge. Not going to bother with any of the off hand though.

Back on topic. I have 4×100%, 82%, 59%, 56%, 53%, 46%. Do I think it is a chore? Sometimes but I don’t really do it with world completion as a goal. Completing a map is a decent way to scout the locations of various gathering nodes. The crafting materials and exotics from the higher level zones is also nice too. The main motivator is actually convenience. Having access to every WP on every character is useful for things like guild missions and guild trek or some of the meta. I like switching between characters, not being able to do an event with the character I feel like playing because I don’t have the WP is just annoying. Once you have the WPs the rest can is usually easiest enough that it becomes ‘might as well finish the rest’.

Looks fine here, everything from Jute to Gossamer.

silvermember.8941:

Thrumdi.9216:

DevonCarver.5370:

mjharrison.3209:

WVW needs a Darkness Falls. That is all.

But why?

One reason would be an orb-like objective that doesn’t include a balance-upsetting stat buff.

Also, a public dungeon might be a way to add features only present in PvE to WvW. Perhaps a better way to get Laurels or Ascended items in WvW? Or maybe precursors?

People like to bring up Daoc a lot but fail to realize is that the market has changed, players have changed.

Aion had dungeons that were dependent on players gaining control over fortresses and that did not work out as plan. The reality is that a lot of players might WANT access to it, but wont be bother to WORK for it. Then when their servers gets perpertually stuck fighting a powerful servers players will start whining about the lack of access to it. Then you have other issue of players leaving WvW to go do that instance which defeats the purpose of WvW as well.

tl;dr
Players change from the time Daoc was out. Recent game like aion (i last played aion in 2010 maybe it change), that a lot of players might want to run the dungeon but wont necessarily work to keep it open. Then you have the other issue of fighting a far stronger server and never having access to it.

BTW i am not saying they shouldnt make a exclusive WvW dungeon, but it cannot be linked to something that requires your server to be strong or it will never work in the long run.

GW1 had two of those.
Then they had to back out of it.

That is likely to be ‘never’. What is more likely to happen is that they will release the authenticated API and then people can build whatever app they want with that.

Darfod.9375:

Hi Devon,

You posted whilst I was typing – blame my poor keyboard skills,

Yes: An entirel;y WvW version of GW2 would be as vacuuous as an entirely PvE version; and we are free to move our PvE/WvW characters freely between modes. Nevertheless, the PvE side of the game is far more rewarding than the PvP side.

All I am asking for is an equality in rewards for time spent & skill.

I have characters I am levelling – they are not yet fully-equipped. I need new gear for them.

The timer website suggests that our Frozen Maw will be up in 7 minutes…

Starting now, I will take a character to Krennaks, and you take a character to WvW. In 10 minutes time, we compare notes to see who has most gold to equip a new character. We both know who will have most.

Sorry if this looks like a personal attack, that is not my intention: I am just looking for an official response that says that GW2 is a PvE game with PvP as a sideline.

I suspect there is a somewhat stupid reason for this. Some of the comments regarding the cost of ascended equipment has pointed in this direction too.

I think they have limited the loot in WvW because they don’t want people going into WvW just for “better” loot. So the challenge is how do you create a reward system that would reward the WvW player without turning WvW into ‘a pretty good farming location’.

Hyung.6140:

:(

I don’t get the response. I mean, I’m glad they realise it’s a problem, but I don’t see how this would encourage me to PLAY an alt instead of still keeping the WXP for my main. I’d love to feel like whatever character I play I’m progressing down the nearly 10,000 ranks…

Well it means you can progress two characters at once if you choose to. You can play your alt and give the vials to your main.

So basically the same advice as http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/09/21/

Behellagh.1468:

It’s as if everyone needs to have a password that nobody else is currently using.

That is not an if, it’s reality. Also it is not just ‘currently using’ but ‘has ever used’. Including in places other than GW1/GW2.

Deified.7520:

Yeah I love the changes to dungeons and I love the loot. I just feel like we should take advantage of the dynamic event system when it comes to champions.

Also on the topic of helping fight zergs, I also said this with world bosses. They need to convince players to spread out by giving incentives to interact with the world. Defending these npcs, driving this cannon, gather thing supplies. All of it leads to the enemies death and all those involved get rewards.

They have definitely dropped the ball when it comes to the meta events. This is actually related. Someone in map chat just mentioned that it is now more lucrative to farm the champs than to do the event. There are still people doing the events but less. Seems like it is at least partially working as far as "get people doing different things is concerned.

Back to the off-topic topic of events. While many could be made more interesting there is a time constraint issue. Both for the devs and for players. It seems like the devs ran out of time for many of them, maybe even all of them but there is a time issue for players as well. Making them more interesting could potentially make them a lot longer.

For example pre-launch during and interview somewhere one of the devs was describing an event that sounds like the Tequatl fight. Except instead of what we have now you were supposed to attack it with the turrets and if the turrets get destroyed it would start an escort event where you have to get the NPCs over to fix the turrets. You could reduce the boss’s health but it also has to maintain a certain minimum to give a chance for the other things to show up.

The biggest problem with the champion loot change and open world is that in some cases it rewards failing an event better than succeeding.

Only if you think Celestial is good or that they will add additional recipes. Using them for t7 would be horrible … time gating on top of time gating.

It is not. The badges just reduce the laurel cost. 250 badges replaces 10 of the laurels.

Deified.7520:

So with the introduction of champion loot, champion farm triangles have begun forming. Some people have been making a ton of money. Some of my guildies have made 100g+ in a couple of days.

There are a few things I’d like to discuss.

1. Are these farming triangles good or bad for the game/economy?

2. Are the rewards of champion loot (including skins) become devalued?

3. Are champions too easy to spawn/find/kill?

4. What are your final thoughts?

Good or bad for who?
Certainly good for me. Got the skin I want for cheap without any of the tedious farming.

1 The “made 100g+ in a couple of days.” thing has the usual issue. How much of that was from direct drops, how much of it was from selling drops merchants and how much was it from selling things to other players?

2 This is pretty much expected. Many have dropped to the same price or lower as other exotics. Their drop rate seems higher so that part makes sense too. Even if the actual chance of dropping is the same as regular exotics the effect rate is going to be higher because you can focus on a specific mob type for specific drops. With other exotics it’s spread among all the different exotics.

3 Since the wiki has a pretty decent(even if it is incomplete) list of them they are trivial to find. Difficulty is very inconsistent and tends to be at the extremes. Any possible challenge is obliterated when you apply a blob since non-event champions won’t scale.

4 At least they are worth killing now. I would say the biggest improvement is to dungeons but the CoF farmers will obviously disagree with that.
The chance of getting cores is effectively doubled for many of the encounters. Once from the champion box and once from the chest.

daemonrus.4703:

Are there any plans to fix this axe, or can we at least get a confirmation that it’s not broken?

That is easy to answer. None of the other weapons based on elementalist conjured weapons and guardian spirit weapons have anything extra added. Why would this be any different?

Sounds like an item from one of the NPC weaponsmiths that you can find all over the game.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/29060
https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/item_details.json?item_id=29060

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/30922
https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/item_details.json?item_id=30922

The only way to tell these apart is the internal id. The non salvagable ones should be renamed.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lord_Taeres%27s_Shadow
Different weapon type.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates
has all the changes since release. Knowing whether a change a nerf or a buff isn’t necessarily obvious and may depend on which build it is being used in.

Ruby Highfarm.6073:

My guild leader stated that Risen champions can both drop Genesis and Entropy… Don’t know about regular Frostgorge chmapions, but maybe they can drop it…
Crystal Guardian isn’t bad either…

That is also mentioned on the wiki.
The issue with the frostgorge champions is that they drop Gilded Strongbox and there are multiple versions of those.

MadDawg.8920:

I’m having a similar problem. I’ve climbed four towers so far; the two in Queensdale and the two in Kessex Hills, but I have received credit for only three.

Before I climbed the tower near the Meadow’s Waypoint in Kessex Hills, I stood at the bottom, looked up, and when I moused over the chest I saw the writing saying Magnificent Chest, so to me it means I can open it. I then triggered the event, which was to kill the queen’s champion. While fighting it along with one or two others I died. I was then revived and we finished fighting the queen’s champion. When it was defeated we all ran to the tower. Someone made it to the top before me, I heard the sound of a chest opening but when I got to the top it was already open, despite not being open earlier!

I have tried doing these four towers repeatedly in the hopes of it working but it won’t!

Edit: When I go back to the tower near Meadow’s Waypoint the chest is now showing as open before and after I complete the event . So I guess I won’t be able to get the chest from it…

Just adding a note but all chests will appear unopened until you get to the top of the tower. Even ones you know you have already opened before.

Unless they start adding t8 stuff at some point … yes for the foreseeable future. The t7 material won’t be gatherable.