Guild Wars 2

Free stuff is always nice but now it’s another storage slot being used up permanently.

As for the people complaining.

If there was something you wanted you could have bought it but you didn’t. If there wasn’t anything you wanted then you shouldn’t have wasted any money just for the free which you could just buy directly. Probably after tomorrow’s update.

If you want the kite enough to complain then there is obviously an item you do want, maybe you should buy this one or you could just keep repeating the cycle of not buying then complaining about not getting free stuff.

They should only be locked if you have any of the aspect skills. Apparently it counts as a transform.

sirsquishy.8531:

It has to do with route maps between your ISP and the Gw2 Server farms. with dynamic routing like BGP/OSPF stuff will change on the fly. Just cause your buddy thats on FiOS had bad connections in Jan doesnt mean it couldnt have been fixed with a call into the ISP with a ping/traceroute map to the destination.

Could have, might have but that wasn’t really the point. The point is that a stable connection is not a guarantee that there won’t be problems.

Veltoss.9135:

The skins are not the only thing you can get from the fortunes. There are also the Celestial recipes, and even if people don’t think the Celestial gear is good, some people still like to collect.

Still doesn’t look very good.
120 gems gets you around 2g 90s.
With that you should be able buy 5 recipe sheets that you need.

5 fortunes will probably get you a Celestial Intricate Gossamer Insignia, Celectial Orichalcum Imbued Inscription, Exquisite Quartz Crystal and them duplicates of one or more of those.

Different classes have different base HP.
Elementalist have both the lowest based armor and the lowest based HP.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Health#Base_Health_by_Profession

Faster and easier to just farm the regular PvE mobs. Pirates in Gendarran Fields and centaurs in Harathi Hinterlands. The items in their loot bags can be traded for supply boxes which can also contain kite fortunes.

pzyonix.1645:

It is not just with the gloves, it is also with the zephyrite helmets. The gloving parts are removed. So It will most likely be the same for the radiant helmet and shoulders

Does that mean you get to walk around headless?

Mad Rasputin.7809:

First, just for the achievement you can do it without the bomb.

Next, I do believe there is a second chest. There was a chest added about half way through. Make sure you are getting to the final chest, and you should get the achievement.

Only thoughts I had on the subject.

Forgot about that one even though I just grabbed it the other day. The final chest is past the skritts with the kite baskets.

Getting credit for Griffonrook does not require carrying the bomb or opening the chest or even looting the chest.

The area that triggers the achievement is a bit weird though. If you are carrying the bomb and running straight to the chest it is easy to end up skipping the trigger area. There is a V shaped area formed by the rock on the west side of the chest. The trigger area is somewhere in that V. The right side of the V is the rock that the chest is sitting on.

That is not Swashbuckler’s Cove. That is Skipping Stones for the big chest.
The small chest next to the champion doesn’t do anything, it is just one of the chests are are littered around the world.

Swashbuckler’s Cove is in Gendarran Fields. It ends with angry moas.

The wiki has some useful information for that sort of thing(although it is far from complete).

For salvaging there is http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Salvage_Item
You can use the levels of the maps where the items drop to figure out the levels of gear that will also salvage into similar things. Except for the tier 1 items all other salvage items gives you materials from two different tiers.

The theory is that you get more of the items from the lower tier than the higher tier but that shouldn’t matter if you are doing this to level crafting since you will need both anyway.

This isn’t really new or specific to these skins. Bad interaction between how the effects are implemented and how stealth effect is implemented. Getting petrified using the Box’O Fun will trigger a similar thing.

How valuable is inventory/bank space to you?
If you sold it now could you use that profit to make more gold?

Holding on to back items seems a bit riskier than other items. We’ll probably be getting more of them with the LS updates. You’ll be selling to collectors and people who just prefer these skins over the new shiny thing.

Some people have claimed that they have gotten support to do that for them while others have claimed the opposite. It’s a mixed bag but at least worth a try.

Draknar.5748:

I bet OP was hoping you’d say ~1month

That is one of the answers.
If you have people to help. People with skills unlocked, fully equipped heroes, and ideally some spare minis and crafting materials. Some spare platinums wouldn’t hurt either …
Oh but that is for 30 not 50. 50 would also require getting all 3 campaigns plus eye of the north which actually makes getting some of the titles easier.

Lexy.3912:

I’ve been playing on NA servers since December, I switched over to visit some NA friends when server transfers were free and had such a good time I never went back.

I’ve never experienced any issues with being EU (UK) based on an NA server, although I do have a very good and stable internet connection where I live. I know plenty of EU based players who live on NA servers and none of them have had any problems with lag, etc.

That was one of the very surprising things. The friend that had the problem was the one with the better connection.

Maybe the NA datacenter is better connected than the EU one. Wouldn’t be too surprising since there are probably still more physical connections to the US than to other places.

You can keep doing that but if one of the weapons is a lv80 you need to use a transmutation crystal instead of a transmutation stone.

Have you checked your collections tab in your bank?

I never swapped. I’ve been on this server since beta. The reason I am on a EU server instead of NA is because one of the people we were going to play with is in the EU(our tiny guild actually has people that spans every timezone) and she had some concerns about sPvPing on a NA server. We have about the same amount of people in the EU as people not in EU and there wasn’t really any other reason for us to stick with NA.

A perfect demonstration of incorrect priorities. Wasting time and resources on breaking the game rather than fixing it. -_-

For example there is the merchant event in Bloodtide Coast that has been broken since release.

Niloc.4365:

Khisanth.2948:

Check Dredgehaunt Cliffs first. Mainly Ulukk’s Hunger and De Molish Post. There is also Forsaken Hall(next to Ulukk’s Hunger on the map) and Tribulation Caverns(not far from De Molish Post) but those two were added after launch but they might count anyway.

Ulukk’s Hunger is not needed for completion and De Molish Post can probably be skipped but it could have made completion go faster.

Last night I was at 174/175 for Shiverpeaks and I discovered Tribulation Caverns, Forsaken Hills and Ulukk’s Hunger and still was stuck at 174/175. It was only when I discovered De Molish Post that I got the achievement.

That is useful to know. Sounds like areas that were added since launch does not contribute to explorer at all.

I am doing it in the opposite direction. It USUALLY isn’t a problem. The recent stuff in Labrynthine Cliff is probably the biggest problem. The lightning pull can end up putting you at the wrong distance. If they add more content like it then the amount/frequency can increase.

Other thing to keep in mind. Your ISP can make a huge difference. I have a friend who was using Verizon’s FIOS and the lag became unplayable starting January and has remained that way. He has since moved and before that we did find a solution but that was not a very nice outcome. We are fairly certain it was the ISP because we are both in the same city and we were playing on the same map. While everything was perfectly fine for me he was unable activate skills and everyone was just teleporting around. Dungeons were not playable either. If he opened the instance then other people can’t join. If other people opened the instance then he can’t join. Another friend has similar issues but only on weekends minus the dungeons issue.

If you want to make the move find someone who is doing the same thing using your ISP and ideally in the same city you are in.

Ratty.5176:

The Gem Costs seem very reasonable for luxury items, like special weapon skins or armor. But now the Gold -> Gems -> Consumables seem a touch over the top. So rather than make Gems Static, I feel they need to take a look at some items and go “is that Rez Orb really worth 8g” or to put it another way “is that Rez Orb really worth 1/3 the cost of a Luxury Skin”

I am still wondering who the target audience is for those Orbs. Seems like they are for someone in the most desperate of situations?

The only times I’ve used one(got them for free from various stuff) was because “meh they are here taking up space, might as well use them”. I just don’t see anyone dying often enough for these to sell well. Even then they don’t exactly work well, they are as slow as a player res, you res with 1HP, move very slowly, can’t dodge. In most situations a WP is faster AND cheaper. They are not worth buying even if they were only 10 gems each(around 33s).

So given how bad they are I think they are just pricing it that way because they aren’t going to be selling a lot of these anyway.

Gabby.3205:

fellyn.5083:

I mostly agree with what you said. Except for the part where you said achievements give players better gear, which is false. The rewards for ap are all cosmetic outside of the gold and account bonuses.

He must be talking about “Sanctum Sprint Achievements -> Meta Achievement -> Personal Quartz Node -> Celestial Gear”. There are other achievements that a person can do to get it, but if the person can not complete the jumping puzzles to get to the kites and can not get the crystals for the same reasons why they can’t finish first in Sanctum Sprint (lag, latency, age, disabilities, etc) and for some reason they really want Celestial Gear, they will have problems to get it.

If fixing races is okay I don’t see why there would be a problem with getting portaled to the kites. However even without that the Quartz Crystals can be bought. What the prices will be after the event is anybody’s guess. You can probably get enough for a full set for a bit over 4g in a few more days. Pretty cheap for a t6.

It also seems possible to get the meta without doing any sanctum sprint or the sky crystal collection.

Zindrix.1750:

I was looking for a thread about maybe why the materials/tiers are inconsistent?

Is it just because the devs realize that the market for certain things are saturated and they’re trying to artificially regulate the prices? Also did not realize that the only thing in these are recipes and quartz, that’s hardly going to regulate kitten.

Not really regulate. Just drain off excess supply. Similar to the boxes near launch that created the mystic forge conduits.

It seems they still haven’t figured out how to add a permanent sink for these items yet.

Ryuujin.8236:

They can be used with the WvW Laurel vendors.

Whereas say, an ascended amulet costs 30 laurels normally. In WvW you can get an ascended amulet for only 20 laurels, and 250 Badges – letting you save your precious laurels.

Not to mention you can turn in badges for exotic armour at the WvW armour vendor, again saving you coin.

Also weapon and armor skins, possibly saying you $$$.

Nightarch.2943:

Six, four of them are 80; used to be five. Refuse to get any more character slots unless they plan to release a new race and or profession then I would get more. Don’t want that character scroll window.

Really wish they stuck with the GW1 (the one that is still in place right now, GW1 has gone through a few) character select screen. I fought that much faster to navigate. Probably because it was always alphabetically sorted. Hmm actually is there an option for that in GW2 that I’ve missed?

Fishbait.6723:

True, someone in game showed me other day, just like the book from, erm…the last temporary events.
Trawled internot & found out need a mass of crystals in new zone, will give it a miss
Curious though, clicked something when got the 16th that appeared in bags, not a clue what it was though.

/shrug

That was the Gift of Quartz. It lets you mine quartz in your home instance. Quartz is used to craft celestial gear … assuming you have the recipe sheets to unlock each item.

Hmm banners just apply regular regeneration. Slightly surprised that it doesn’t end up giving the boon to the NPC as well.

DeWolfe.2174:

And, we’ll have an excess of Crystals for a full set by the end of this event. Beyond that we’ll need crystals for…..???? I already have the Ascended Celestial trinkets.

Already got enough for more than 50 items … seems I accidentally put in too many orders.

I don’t really see more dealings with the ED outside of an expansion …
Would have to be something the size of Eye of the North. The personal story bits will be shorter since we already have the whole ‘learning about the orders and forming the pact’ thing out of the way.

The PvP locker is also a convenient place for previewing gear. Especially if you plan on mixing sets.

Also for testing certain traits/skills/sigils/runes since changing traits there is free and so are the items.

generalraccoon.3857:

OMG you people with 8 or more characters! i envy you all! hahaha

I have 5, of which 4 are level 80 (Warrior my most primary, Ranger my tankiest, Mesmer my puzzle jumper, Engineer my condition dmg killer) and a lvl 37 Guardian (on the way up, though slowly)

Hmm leveling with world completion is pretty easy after the first since you will know about most of the tricks to get each of the hearts done and how to get to various vistas that can be tricky the first time. XP gain is even easier now with the AP rewards.

We should try to go for a tie.

Did you go back and get any new WP or POI that has been added with various updates?

Judging from people’s various posts it seems the title, the character select badge and the reward are not triggered by the same conditions.

10 but only 9 gets played, which one depends on moode.
3 human, 3 norn, 1 sylvari, 1 charr, 1 asura
Don’t ever make a human guardian unless you want to give up using “Retreat!” forever…

GuildWarsPlayer.5608:

Been reading a lot of negative threads on how disappointed people are with the game. Why those people continue to play is beyond me. How about the people who actually enjoy the game ?

I enjoy this game a lot. I’ve played other mmo’s and have yet to come across the mechanics of GW2.

1. I like the freedom of this game. you can go where you please with little to no restrictions. Whether you survive in certain area’s do to level is up to the player.

2. The game has truly grasped the free roam aspect.

3. The graphics are amazing.

4. The solo content is better than any other mmo I have played.

5. You don’t have to rely on others to survive and progress like you do in other mmo’s

6. The game is buy to play and doesn’t force you into a subscription to progress.

Just a few things I enjoy about this game. Any other comments on what you enjoy about the game ?

I’ve probably contributed to posts on both sides. Some were probably in the ‘pouring fuel on fire’ variety.

I like the game overall which is why some of the more aggravating things are made even more aggravating. So I think some of the negative posts can be read in that way. I only say this because I care. Of course that is not for every post. Especially the ones that seem to think the game should be raining exotics 24/7 …

If I truly hated a game I would never bother posting in the game’s forum. If some really stupid change was made in a game I have grown to hate the reaction would be ’meh … whatever moving on".

Probably same/related to https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Possible-Jug-of-liquid-karma-bug/first#post2141131

According to that thread your test should be
1) Equip the amulet
2) relog
3) do event
4) take off amulet
5) do event again

It looks like you did it in the reverse order.

Might be good for farming kite fortunes.

How about a non-cosmetic WXP one instead.
The Yak Highjacker. Jump on an enemy yak and steer it somewhere else. The more points you put into the skill the less likely you are to get thrown off.

Either the July 9th or the June 25th patch.

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

Khisanth.2948:

For karma you will need 210,000 karma since you can only get 5/6 pieces.
You will need another 331 badges for light/medium armor and 295 badges for heavy armor.
Not sure how much randomness there is but gettting to 1000 Achievement points seems to be enough to get you 300 badges from the reward chests.

AC path 1 is easy, the other 2 can be easy or hard depending on the team
SE path 1 and 3 are fairly easy.
HotW path 1 is fairly easy and short, the other two paths have a bunch of HP sponges and underwater end boss.

I’m talking about exotic here which can only be purchased my badges/coins.
Anyways SE skin is the best looking one. I should do both path 1 and 3 ? ( easiest )

What makes you think I was referring to anything besides the exotic ones?

Behellagh.1468:

I wish they were just chests that you could stick into inventory than bouncy ones on the left side of the screen. What does a non-PvPer do with a half a dozen PvP only items, half of them unusable do to class restrictions. I see it as a ploy to encourage players to buy another row of bank slots.

Those can be deposited into the PvP locker. For any extras if you don’t play sPvP there is really no reason to be hoarding them. Maybe one of the PvP rewards chest will include a PvP Salvage Kit.

If they were really so concerned with selling bank tabs I doubt they would have the 8 tab limit per account.

Then you have immobolize, chilled, crippled, vulnerability, weakness and blind.
Condition duration isn’t just for damage.

Cheapest for getting 30 points would be getting the Platinum edition.
Easiest for getting 30 points would buying Eye of the North, Prophecies, Factions and Nightfall where either Factions or Nightfall should be the Collector’s Edition.

I would recommend against both unless you know people are going to be able to help or if you are actually interested in GW1 itself. It’s still a good game but it’s a very different game.

Some stores do have sales from time to time but I don’t really keep track of those. There are websites that do though.

Oh … I think the hammer, mace and axe really missed the mark. The looks do not seem like they fit those weapons very well. Too much of their identify is lost.

I like some of them but that doesn’t mean I am going to be using them on every character. I am probably still going to be using the Wintersday skins(Candy Cane, wooden stuff) more than the Zenith ones.

I should probably get the Trident skin. Too many of the existing ones are just reused staff skins.

Clark Skinner.4902:

BUG-FIXES
•Removed the ability to get loot drops and experience for killing small Thundershrimp in Labyrinthine Cliffs.

What did they drop?

And why should people not get loot from non-hostile enemies? Sometimes the non-hostiles are more work to kill then hostiles.

Not sure if it was the case before the patch but right now those are lv1. They can be killed in one hit.

Hambone.4267:

I found the bug. I know that people won’t believe me but the Bazaar of the Four Winds patch apparently turned all of my orichalum tools in to copper ones. I have gone through stacks of each and refreshed with ori tools and somehow they were copper ones too.

I just deleted all of the tools out of all 3 slots and put ori tools back in and they’re all working as normal again. I have no idea how this happens.

EDIT: I also noticed that it turned some ori harvesting tools in my inventory in to copper ones.

While that is still possible I think a more likely scenario is that you ended up equipping the Copper tools that came out of the 100 AP chest. This is even more likely if you normally ONLY use Orichalcum tools.

arkenstone.7896:

Isn’t that the same thing? What is the difference between faster recharge and cooldown reduction then? I was was looking at the tooltip where cooldown is listed next to cast time in the top right corner.

20% cooldown reduction would lower Mirror Blade’s CD from 8 → 8*0.8 → 6.4
20% faster recharge would lower Mirror Blade’s CD from 8 → 100%/(100%/8*1.2) → 6.6666~

With both Mirror Blade should have 5.3333~ (there is some rounding as well) rather than the 4.8s right now.

Just a bit of addition to Nretep.2564’s post in case it’s not clear. The +100% recharge rate would only reduce Mirror Blade’s CD down to 4s (100%/(100%/8*2) while -100% CD would reduce it to 0s.