Guild Wars 2

Try the audio section instead. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/audio
Either for asking or searching. I know similar questions have been answered by the person responsible for voiceovers.

Nuage.5230:

Can I send money to an EU server if I am on an NA server?

Yes, in that case you MUST send to the display name( in this case “Ava Owns.9763”) instead of a character name. Sending to a display name always works. Sending to a character name only works if you are in the same region.

Noir.3204:

All I can say is never watch Felicia Day’s Youtube book club channel, if you are so easily offended.

That one is pretty tame compared to a lot of the other stuff on the net …

gotkitten ed.5318:

the new article it sounds like it would be multiple use

In the upcoming release, we’re adding a reward structure to achievement points. As you complete achievements and increase your achievement score, you’ll unlock new, exclusive rewards for your account

At least for me the “unlockable” sound like that.
I wonder why they don’t mention if they’ll be multiple use or not. IMO that would be a huge plus for almost every player (except the ones which hate anything lol)

Well it could work like PvP items. You have earn a certain life time total Glory before you can use particular vendors. Those are basically unlocks. Such a system would automatically award unlocks retroactively.

We’ll find out in less than a week.

Scaling (both up and down) just seems to apply a simple multiplier to your stats. The algorithms for scaling is going to assume level appropriate gear. If you aren’t then you will be significantly weaker. Additional issue that is relevant here is that starting from lv65, gear switches from 2 stats to 3. The game is going to assume you have the stat points from that 3rd stat. If you don’t that is going to be a big chunk of missing stats.

See attachment for an example of going in the opposite direction(due to a bug).

You should not be close enough to the edge of the map to trigger the message for that point. Maybe you should take a screenshot of where you are when you get the message

I wasn’t the one doing testing and it reduces all durations. I am not sure how you came to the conclusion that the post says it only applies to boosted durations.

You can also get a tonic to turn into a baby quaggan.

None there either. The closest is the Plaza of Lost Wisdom in the Straits of Malediction.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Strait_of_Malediction_map.jpg

Osi.3504:

If you can merchant on WoW, you shouldn’t be asking questions on here about how to merchant, you shouldn’t be on here trying to merchant the same item with 5,000 other people, then it gets overmerchanted, over-undercut and creates a collapse due to impatient people. OBVIOUSLY Dragon Coffers supply is absurdly high, but as all discontinued content/items, they will rise and rise primarily because of the Jade Tickets, is it worth investing 4 gold a stack and soaking up lots of space and possibly having to wait at least a year+ before it’s worth a profit? Probably not short term. Long term you can’t ever go wrong. So what’s to ask? What you should already know?

For the “long term” it seems like there could be another problem. If we take a look another RNG box, the Black Lion Chest. They have been the same item that has been dropping since launch but their contents have changed from time to time.

It is possible that the coffers will return as the same item(so they would stack with this year’s coffers) next year but opening them will give next year’s item. That could put a limit on how long you can hold on to these sort of things.

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

Khisanth.2948:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Condition-duration-vs-Condition-duration/2204523

It can be tested in WvW too.

For condition duration reduction there are many things to consider. For starters there are many different sources of conditions with varying durations so a -65% is going to be different in each case. Then there is the difference between damaging and non-damaging conditions. For damaging conditions any reduction below a whole second is good, rounding isn’t going to matter much there but for non-damaging ones the exact duration will make a difference.

As for long condition durations, you can play around with Risen Gorillas. One of their attacks can give you a minute of cripple if you take all the hits.

Sorry I don’t have a lot of time to read into this (at work). But what you are saying basically is that there is an advantage to having -65% vs -50% for conditions that have a long duration? I need to reduce all conditions durations as much as I possibly can. But if there is a point where I no longer am benefitting from it, I’d prefer to not buy the most expensive foods.

If this is for WvW you want the most possible to counter people using +condition duration. If this is for general PvE -condition is mostly a waste anyway except possibly for a few of the bounty targets.

There are no POI in any of the corners of Straits of Devastation. There is also no water in the NE corner for you to be pushed by a strong current.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Condition-duration-vs-Condition-duration/2204523

It can be tested in WvW too.

For condition duration reduction there are many things to consider. For starters there are many different sources of conditions with varying durations so a -65% is going to be different in each case. Then there is the difference between damaging and non-damaging conditions. For damaging conditions any reduction below a whole second is good, rounding isn’t going to matter much there but for non-damaging ones the exact duration will make a difference.

As for long condition durations, you can play around with Risen Gorillas. One of their attacks can give you a minute of cripple if you take all the hits.

Rouven.7409 has the right answer but if you are thinking of using it for the monthly don’t bother. All the champions there have been given Determined status so they can’t be killed.

MysticHLE.7160:

Hint, there’s a new Defense IX trait called Cleansing Ire. That pretty much makes warrior one of the best condition removal class.

or just using Mending …

Sounds like you need to check your keybinds or a new keyboard.

It may be 50% chance but that is on respawn of the hologram not on activating the hologram. If people don’t activate the other ones then the number of them that will have Aetherblades will be less and less.

I found Fireheart Rise to be a great place for them. Finished the Maguuma one just from killing the ones near the golem platform.

Karizee.8076:

• Details page—Use this page to drill down into individual achievements to find detailed objectives, point breakdowns, and other useful information like suggested locations and potential rewards.

Yes!!

I would LOVE to see where the devs think is a good location for finishing Giant Slayer.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

You mean the trap that was triggered in Blimm’s Tomb? All that did was collapse the false floor in that room, nothing more.

I mean the fight with the tomb guardian/golem but that seems like it is the same.

They should also drop from Inquest in Malchor’s Leap.

Heh Mesmers have been complaining about this with Illusionary Berserker for a while …
It’s basically using the same skill. There was an update to that skill in the last patch so I am not sure if that is still an issue. Might need similar changes here.

I’ve always assume that the hole was caused by why happened in the beginning of Ghosts of Ascalon.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Vayne.8563:

Shiren.9532:

Yes, you can still get them all. Originally they planned on making them exclusive after a time, but it seems the desire to make money off increased sales won out in the end.

The titles are very much in the tradition of normal MMO grind. The further along you go, the harder it becomes. Reaching 30 points (the last point before you stop receiving cosmetic rewards) can be done within a couple of weeks for an experienced GW1 player but someone starting out will likely take much longer. Guild Wars 1 is a complex game but once you’re set up (with the right hero builds) it’s pretty much auto pilot to win.

It’s hard to judge because you will be learning the game as you go, but I suspect it would take at least 100 hours to 30 HoM points. Any titles beyond that become much harder. Don’t bother going for 50/50, GW1 would become your main game if you wanted that. Getting 50/50 is a lofty goal for people who played the game for seven years.

This isn’t true. They said from the very beginning you’d always be able to get them, even after Guild Wars 2 launched. That never changed. They were never meant to be “exclusive”.

Actually, this is what was said, at one time, though I suppose they changed their minds:

“I don’t know exactly what the timing will be, but I will tell you that we aren’t going to allow new players to Guild Wars 2 to go back and get those items in the Hall of Monuments. Our intent is to reward players who are playing Guild Wars right now…So I can’t imagine that we’ll let somebody coming into Guild Wars six months after Guild Wars 2 ships and letting them have rights to all of the same opportunities our original players had.”

source: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Talk:Hall_of_Monuments

So, I can see where someone would remember this, and talk about it now. =)

A quote without a reference or the full context. I do remember reading that response from a dev at some point, however the interpretation at the time was “we will not be adding some in game method in Guild Wars 2 that allows people to get these things without ever playing Guild Wars 1”.

Clear your mail box.

I don’t know if it’s always been like that but LB on warrior has felt extremely weak.
However looking at the numbers in my hero panel the numbers look to be about equal to the rest(not account for the attack rate).

According to the wiki, Dual Shot takes about 25% longer to activate than Bleeding Shot from Rifle even though they both list a 3/4s activation time.

Esplen.3940:

Crimsony.2514:

I bought the axe on the premise that all this “wrong” stuff was what I was getting!

If they “fix” it I will have to demand a refund, ragequit, and cry myself to sleep.

It’s funny because this is the reason why most things won’t get fixed even though your post is trolling.

Well this whole thread is trolling. Either that or the OP really needs to seek some help with that OCD….

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Varkronn.9783:

Word of note to people considering this axe, it is by far the most lacklustre of the trio. The model itself is very nice however the animation is incredibly underwhelming. I suggest anyone debating whether to buy it or not go find a video of it being used somewhere and check it first, even if you are a person like me who doesn’t like to spoil the surprise. It is much worse than even the Sickle.

I really could care less about the animations. They are a nice additional, along with the nifty skins but what I’m really after is that unlimited use. I hate having to buy harvesting tools all the time (and sometimes it seems like I’m stopping every hour to buy new ones) Or carrying 3-4 different sets, so I don’t “waste” the more expensive ones on low level harvests, just grrr. Simplicity is lovely….

The unlimited part is the most important thing. I went through what seemed like 5 stacks of axes yesterday. Constantly having to remember ‘must buy more axes!’ was annoying.

I wish I could turn off the animation on the pick. The animation obscure the fact that a node has been used up when you are mining a rich node or getting extra hits. That basically means the pick takes longer to harvest for those types of situations.

Fernling.1729:

Palador.2170:

Let’s be fair, though. That was a pretty good reward for the end chest, considering it was NOT random to get it.

Add in the fact that there are three other chests in the puzzle, and maybe that was a bit much?

Not really, I could run a couple meta events and make more than 60 silver. The fact that it isn’t a unique skin and isn’t worth anything to a vendor, makes the reward pointless. Maybe, it would be better to remove the material rewards from things like this. People that find it fun or want a few achievement points could still do it.
I guess we would have people complaining about no rewards though.
I’m sorry Anet, you just can’t please everyone.

Now it is about the same reward as every other JP chest. I don’t see anything wrong with that. Just because it’s new doesn’t mean it needs some extra special treatment.

gotkitten ed.5318:

Mirta.5029:

Khisanth.2948:

A bit late in the development cycle to be making this sort of changes. Besides you aren’t telling them anything they don’t already know. Of course people would prefer infinite use items over one time use ones but that has to be ‘balanced’ with other things. Depending on the items involved there is the in game economy and the business model for the game to be concerned with.

If the skins were account bound skins like HoM skins were it would not influence the economy.

This. There is absolute nothing to be balanced, since those skins do not give you the slightest advantage, as long as they’re account bound (which I’m pretty sure they’ll be)

You are looking at the wrong sort of balance and forgetting that selling transmutation crystals is also part of what keeps the lights on/servers running/etc.

Lyana Evrilow.8102:

The people who have the achievement without doing the jump have already completed the dive master achievement. The Not So Secret jumping puzzle achievement, as Nitro said, is for the actual jumping puzzle itself, NOT the diving goggles.

Diving goggles just add to the Dive Master achievement.

Just like 100% mapping, if they add new pois/wps/etc. to the map that you’ve already completed 100%, it does not make you do it again, so as to avoid regaining the achievement points.

Neither of those things are really true. Had all the dive locations as soon as they fixed the ones in Metrica. Still at 37/38.

As for completion, they % does go down although the star and title is kept.

gotkitten ed.5318:

Khisanth.2948:

Azjenco.9425:

I really feel the new achievement additions need a thorough blog post.

or just wait a week.

Better bring this to their attention yet.

If they say it will be multiple use, that’s fine.
If not, we can state our opinion and change the outcome. Remember the ‘investigation’ of the titles under username? Yeah, never heard of it again after that…

A bit late in the development cycle to be making this sort of changes. Besides you aren’t telling them anything they don’t already know. Of course people would prefer infinite use items over one time use ones but that has to be ‘balanced’ with other things. Depending on the items involved there is the in game economy and the business model for the game to be concerned with.

Azjenco.9425:

I really feel the new achievement additions need a thorough blog post.

or just wait a week.

generix.2538:

Are you sure you didn’t buy a bag slot (or a bank tab)?

Those don’t show up as recently purchased items and I have had small panics thinking I “lost” gems.

Bag slots are 400 but bank is 600.

That is a bug in the tooltip.

0/0/30/15/25 is a defensive trait setup so you shouldnt’ be surprised about doing less damage. Condition damage is also going to do damage slower than direct.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats#Dungeons has the different stat combinations you can get from dungeons.

Getting magic find will generally lower your offense or defense depending on which MF set you get.

The main reason for farming exp mode is the guaranteed gold you get at the end. As you repeat runs you get less and less tokens each run per day.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/AOE-Loot-on-interact-not-working/first#post2284802

Are you in a party? It doesn’t work if you are not.

You can’t take it off but you can transfer it. In the process the previous item with the skin will get destroyed. You can do that with either a Transmutation Stone(for items less than lv80) or a Transmutation Crystal(for items that are lv80)

You don’t need to transfer your stuff to anyone. You could just put it in your bank. Deleting and transfering to your friend’s server would probably be a good idea. Everything is more fun with a friend.

If you deleted all your characters it would not cost anything to transfer but there is still a 1 transfer every 7 days restriction. If you pay to transfer then you can keep all your characters. If you only have a lv9 then it would probably be better to just delete, transfer and recreate the character. When you delete a character the name is still reserved for your account for 24hours.

Ayrilana.1396:

I could’ve swore you had to complete all of the events for the meta to spawn him.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/In_Pursuit_of_Knowledge

Nope. This was just a bit earlier.

It’s not really a chain. It’s just two events. Are you sure you are doing the right thing?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Drive_the_dredge_out_of_Fridgardr_Lodge
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Regain_control_of_Firebase_Molek

Those are the two you have to clear assuming you are referring to the champion dredge commissar with a chest and bonus chest.

colesy.8490:

They do actually help bring down the barrier. Maybe they should be allowed to be controlled by players or something.

Not in any noticeable way that I’ve ever seen. That was the case even when I was the only person attacking the shield.

Sebulon.7683:

So time to start saving them and prepare to sell them after the event for infinite profit? :p

Good luck with that. There are over 4 million on the trading post alone. There are probably many more in people’s inventory/bank then there are all the unopened coffers.

Serval.6458:

I’m not sure it’s meant to apply the retal. to allies (I never thought it did but haven’t actually checked. )As for not always applying it to yourself, I think you can only have retal. from five diff. sources at once, so given it’s short duration it is probably ignored if you have retal. from other things. If it’s failing to apply it when you don’t already have the boon, I imagine it’s a bug.

It stacks in duration up to 5 times. I don’t think it needs to be 5 different sources.

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Miku.6297:

Khisanth.2948:

Not really. It’ll be equal or faster since there won’t be any time wasted trying to res those people.

It takes a long time to res people with that many standing around? Gosh I usually have to mash interact to get reses off befor we hit the “max number of revivers”.

Not every server is fully packed during all hours of the day. Unfortunately people who do stupid things seems to have better coverage.

Miku.6297:

Great plan! This way those people just lay on the ground dead, many will not WP and run back, this way you can spend even longer!

Not really. It’ll be equal or faster since there won’t be any time wasted trying to res those people.

OP, you forgot another important group! People in phase 1 who not only do what you described, don’t contribute much to damaging the shield AND pull champions/veterans on people who ARE trying to take down the shield.

Jam.4521:

Think the main problem is the game is full of people like me who see a new update elsewhere and think ‘ooh Shiny’ then run off en masse like the good little sheep we are.

That wouldn’t be a problem if the events actually scaled properly.
For example the eggs/nest in the northern camp respawns so quickly that you basically need one person sitting on each. There are 3 or 4 of those. Then you need people to kill the other spawns.

Halcyon.7352:

Done at least three times on Tarnished Coast yesterday, although hasn’t been done in almost 24 hours now according to gw2stuff.

A three man group successfully snuck in and burned down all the karka nests from my guild, to end the event and secure Kiel as the last camp.

Doesn’t take a whole lot of people.

and how many people were at Pride Point and Camp Karka/Captain’s Retreat?