Guild Wars 2

Aela.7539:

I agree. The dragon shield is about 1000x nicer then the rest of the weapons. By far my favorite too!

Pfft the Axe is best. :P

colesy.8490:

you’re not going to be able to do Arah with 3-5 people.

If you’re that desperate, go advertise it in LA and mention that it has the biggest reward chest in the game. On Seafarer’s Rest, the moment the pre-events are done it’s quite easy to get a massive zerg for the event plus you get a ton of loot from the mobs.

Did it with 4 the other day, guardian, thief, warrior, ranger. Two of the pre to get mroe reinforcements actually bugged, the NPCs stopped before getting to the end. Once we got to the gate we avoided aggroing the wizard and then people’s greed plus the timers automatically brought more people for that fight. Unfortunately the ‘biggest reward chest in the game’ wasn’t all that impressive. We only did it just to see if we could and one of the people in the party needed the Arah WP anyway.

Those changes seems unlikely. The devs’ stance on the matter seems to be ‘if you are a small guild ask other people for help’.

Rennoko.5731:

Leo G.4501:

Guess you learn something every day. I always tried to get Fear Me to 3-4sec and it never seemed to last that long with 50% condition duration…well, more like I had 50% and though, hey this should add an extra second to Fear Me, but it didn’t seem to change. Of course this was a while back. I could have just been mistaken.

If you wanted to test if stun duration affects fear, you can get someone to test with this food
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bowl_of_Roasted_Lotus_Root

Don’t need runes or a specific build/profession. Just ask someone out there to eat some lotus root and use fear against him. -40% stun should be noticable especially if it rounds down.

That is a good idea, but my matchup changes today…. I may have to find a new party to test with next week if we change up. Thanks for the idea.

I may see if I can get on and grab one of those helpful warriors before the reset.

One other thing I forgot to mention… All fears cap at 5 seconds.

Fear me is 5 seconds at Point Blank range, but even with duration it won’t go any higher. 100% duration on fear me should allow a 10 second fear… but it won’t.

Sounds like the change from https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Update-Notes-October-22-2012/506037

Reduced fear’s maximum stacks to 5 to prevent excessively long periods of time where players don’t have control of their character.

In all such cases you should always include the error message the game gives. If there were no error messages that should be noted too.

Anyway make sure the other person isn’t already in 5 guilds. There is a limit of how many guilds a person can be part of and the error message the game gives for that is very stupid.

TitaniumDog.3054:

How come they jumped in price. They we only 15s before the patch and look to be rising?

Looks pretty flat except for that one spike
http://www.guildwarstrade.com/item/43429-mini-holographic-risen-knight

Besides the lack of use for these things there seems to be an over abundance of them when opening things like Heavy Moldy Bags.

Kelthos Doombringer.9032:

After a few hours of farming, I can say pretty confidently that the drop rate FEELS like it has been reduced. The amount of coffers that i got compared to last night definitely support that feeling.

There is an extra 3 seconds minimum per projector for kills. Coupled with the health increase the reduction in the amount of coffers is expected without any change to drop rates. This is especially true if you are farming them, all those seconds will add up.

digiowl.9620:

Ayrilana.1396:

Didn’t really change anything except make a berserker guardian the preferred class to solo these. I just tested it and guardian is now the fastest due to their pull attack.

As i expected. The problem was not the health of the mobs (personal experience when soloing them on my non-zerker engineer), but the continued ANet ignorance of how slanted PVE is towards DPS.

Bumping the health of the holograms just made zerker a must have.

Must have? I’ve been killing them in full magic find gear and 10/10/20/30/0 traits. Sure they are slightly more challenging now but before the change with the same setup they were dying within about 3 attacks.

Jam.4521:

Same as all the others then, I do the shatterer quite often and always run the pre’s. Last time there were roughly 100 people waiting for it, and about 5 people doing the pre.

Its disgusting, especially as people just sat and waited when they could have got a (small) reward for just doing the pre, and you have to wait for a slow caravan to get to the WP before it even starts so you can’t actually miss it if you do it.

Shatterer is broken in its own way. NOT doing the weapon collecting pre-event is very much justified since the fastest way to complete is to have only one person doing it. Adding more people to that event just makes it take longer to do.

Tried doing karka queen the other day(before patch) with a small group. That didn’t work out all. It was not for a lack of trying, I didn’t keep track of the time but it felt like hours. As soon as you as you finished one you would find that one of the others are now contested so it always remained at 3/4.

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

-a fixed number, perhaps we have to obtain 500 coffers to get the ticket.

That is basically the approach used for the Wintersday weapons. The 100,000 Zhaitaffy cost for the wings would have been better used for the ticket although that price is still “a bit” too much.

I can confirm that they were dropping after the patch. Haven’t been back since the last couple of hotfixes.

The only thing that is still in southsun is the Karka Queen which is permanent. The Southsun Supply Crates are also still dropping if that means anything to you.

AlexDelux.4053:

I really don’t understand why no-one does this boss these days, i mean, i made all other world bosses, hydra queen, eye of zhaitan and even balthazar, and there was always a great number of players. But when I go to Southsun i can’t find anyone, what’s wrong with people?? The Dragon Bash is surely a pretty thing, but nothing so big rewarding and it will last a month.
Sorry for the complaining, but i’m really disappointed as i liked doing that boss and now i have to guest to be able (maybe) to do it

The karka queen takes either more effort or is less rewarding than the ones you’ve mentioned. Hydra queen is relatively easy, most of the work is getting it to spawn. Main challenge for Eye of Zhaitan is the champion abomination but event that is not too bad, just dodging and ressing people. I assume Balthazar has chance of dropping a core/lodestone but even if it didn’t it is one of 2(3) sources for Obsidian Shards. As far as I know it is also the only place to get exotic cavalier trinkets.

I guess the queen has the settler gear associated with it but judging from the value of the settler trinkets that dropped it is not a a very popular stat combination. A tanky setup while slowly killing things with conditions doesn’t sound very appealing.

In other words it is a lot more for work basically the same reward, possibly less reward since the queen’s chest contains fewer items and just some karka shells.

I wouldn’t mind another Mystic Forge Conduit but as much as I would love to have one I think that was not a good solution. There needs to be a long term solution that will naturally use up these things.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Gasoline.2570:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

If it involves laurels then I don’t think it will be a problem. After I got to 100 laurels I just stopped doing dailies. I’m sure there are people with 150+ with nothing that interests them.

I wish life was so simple for me.

I’ve spent 180 laurels on amulets and the utilities alone…

Were you the one complaining that Laurels are being manipulated by day traders?

How does one go about manipulating laurels? O_o

You can also get the stones from map completion. You will either get Transmutation Stones, Transmutation Crystal or a Black Lion Key. The Transmutation Stones are most common.

There are 3 sets from karma, well almost 3. They are all missing a piece.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats#Karma
Whether it is worth getting depends on your build.

Actually the way the Wintersday Gifts worked was fine as far as random boxes go. However in the case of weapon skins those had a guaranteed minimum rate of 0.4%

Sounds like same issue as the quaggan backpack. It disappears when using Ride the Lightning. Sometimes it will reappear on its own.

ShinraGuardian.8053:

Fror.2163:

- Farm CoE
- Farm Sparks in Orr
- Farm the Urban Battlegrounds fractal
- Farm CoF and buy out of TP

Anecdotically, you can get some from Heavy Loot Bags, gotten from WvW.

How can you farm UB Fractal? I didn’t think mobs respawned in there.

Leave and re-enter until you get it. Seems very tedious, the daily chest also seems to have cores for 10+.

Since you don’t get credit for any other story step by completing it before you reach it, I wouldn’t expect this to be any different.

That just looks like a display bug on the Bowl of Salsa tooltip. The transform thing has a chance of happening with any of the Halloween food.

This all looks like it is behaving as intended besides the wrong icon on the Bowl of Salsa tooltip.

Southsun doesn’t have enough POI or WP to account for all the things you are missing.

Actually I just happened to be hovering over Rata Sum … it has exactly 9 WP, 19 POI and 5 vista, these numbers look suspiciously familiar.

What time(including your timezone) is it happening?

Well according to your own information you are missing 9 WP, 19 POI and 5 vista. If not for the 202/202 SP that could be an entire map missing. Some of those WP and POI could be the ones that were added with updates. You DO need to get them for world completion.

Astral Projections.7320:

When it requires general events or shiverpeaks events, I have found the Norn noob area (the 2 to 5 area) to be especially fast. The events happen in a small area, are frequent and at least 2 of them are a set of 3. In that small area, there are at least 15 different types of enemies for variety and enough nodes for harvesting. The same area, a little higher, up has 3 veteran oak creatures (forget their name) which respawn fast.

Claw of Jormag + pre-events = 5 shiverpeak events, 2 group events, bunch of veteran slayer, 2+ champion slayer, blues for salvaging, greens for forging, plenty of reviver, if you bring an AoE condition remover the fear and chill removal will clear that off too

The silver mobs in dungeons also counts for veteran slayer. This seems to be a relatively recent change.

Fade.7658:

One patch to break it, yet weeks to fix it.

You don’t know how long it took to implement that patch. Could have been months! :P

Bright.9160:

If you do the same Dungeon path twice in a row without a certain time in between (don’t know how long it is) on 2 different characters, you’ll get DR.

For example, if I do CoF p1 on my Warrior, switch to my Guardian and do CoF p1, I’ll get 30 tokens.

If I do CoF p1 and p2 on my Warrior, switch to my Guardian and do CoF p1 and p2 again, I’ll get 60 tokens every time.

Why did your wife get 60 tokens and you only got 30? The DR system is still bugged all over the place. She was lucky, you weren’t.

That used to be the case but I don’t think that has been true for several patches. Still shouldn’t be true unless the changes got reverted with recent patches.

A couple of weeks ago(should be before SSC) I did a bunch of CoF p1 runs with my warrior/elementalist/thief/engineer/(maybe my ranger too)/warrior again. That was all back to back aside from the time it took to clear the entrance after nearly every run. They all got 60 tokens except the second run with the warrior but that was obviously expected.

The only other use for Zhaitaffy seems to be for the wings and you won’t be able to use it for that once the event is over and right now it isn’t worth it to exchange Zhaitaffy for them anyway. On the other hand this is only the first half of the event, they could be adding uses for it in part2?

Gw2.dat is 17.8GB here. The actual download should be a bit smaller since there is some wasted space from updates. Having the DVD should still save you a big chunk of downloading but that isn’t an option if you got the digital edition.

If you have the DVD then the downloads for updates should be somewhere around 3-5GB.

When you are done downloading I recommend making a backup.

Just use this site.
http://www.gw2bear.com/status.quaggan?check=Grenth&server=EU

Obviously you’ll want to select the correct region and event too.

Hickeroar.9734:

Fror.2163:

- Farm CoE
- Farm Sparks in Orr
- Farm the Urban Battlegrounds fractal
- Farm CoF and buy out of TP

Anecdotically, you can get some from Heavy Loot Bags, gotten from WvW.

Then realize that ANet designed GW2 so that you would never have to farm….

Wut.

You do not need to farm for anything that you NEED. You may have to farm for things you WANT. That is an important distinction.

Zaxares.5419:

Wow, it’s only 20 silver on the TP right now. O.o Maybe I SHOULD pick one up and make the Colossus when it’s fixed, just because I can.

You don’t have your own pile of knights yet? :P
I think I have 4 mostly from trying to finish ‘So Lifelike’.

Shufflepants.9785:

Your test would prove nothing. Different players have different skill levels and abilities. I hardly ever die in Orr unless I’m trying to solo group events. And as developers, they don’t need to do your silly test. Your test is supposed to figure out drop rates, but they already KNOW what they are because they are the ones that coded them. The only thing that they might potentially want to test is what the average time to kill various mobs are or maybe what mobs kill players most often. But even then, they wouldn’t just go marauding through Orr themselves. They’d just write a script that would automatically collect that data from every player who enters the zone on any server and leave it collecting for a few weeks. I’d actually be surprised if they didn’t already collect this kind of data.

Actually they have an entire bot army for testing that sort of thing(on the dev servers so no need to slow down live servers with the data collection). Their presentation on how some stuff are implemented should still be on gamasutra.

However I doubt much useful information can be derived from bot testing or data collection from live servers. What killed you is not as important as what lead to your death. You might have been killed with skill X but the actual cause of your death could be because you were chain immobilized by 5 different things(haven’t actually encountered this in a while, just a convenient example). WHERE people are dying might be more useful but that will probably just show you locations of events.

Beldin.5498:

Rama.6439:

And Southsun Cove has a source for T6 blood, scales, and poison sacs, but as far as T6 totems, claws, fangs, and ancient bones, if Anet don’t do something about the nerfs soon they will be going the way of the DUST soon also.

I sold fangs for 20-22s before the Souuthsun event started. After that they went down to 11-12s .. so i think they also must drop there. Bones and claws however went up .. and when i tried to farm the Icebrood in Frostgorge i had the feeling they were also nerfed, because actually maybe 1 of 10 mobs does drop anything at all.

I also still think they should give dust to the droptable from high-level Ice-Elementals, since i saw level 40+ Ice-Elementals drop T3 dust.

Fang drop from the skelks, anyone farming blood would have gotten a pile of fangs too. Claws also drop in Southsun but those are dropped by reef drakes. Who wants to farm reef drakes? -_-

Even if you did want to farm reef drakes their population doesn’t support that.

Dust was already in the loot table for high level ice elementals.

Oh and ANet not wanting people to farm Orr? This is obvious and they’ve implied it a number of times. The ideal distribution of players would be all players evenly spread out on all maps. Making it possible to obtain a high level crafting material from any map seems like a good start for that.

Actually right now Dragon Coffer = easy money. 20 of those is approximately 1g.

Djemo.7153:

Wait, MF will return?!
Where did you get this info?

That would mean id need to consider the mini as well since it can reoccur again.

“Will” is debatable but the possibility isn’t completely out of the question. I think there has been mentions/suggestions of adding some of the temporary stuff as additional possibilities into Fractals of the Mists(it lets people replay things they already created and it even fits the lore).

For MWF specifically, that storyline doesn’t seem complete or at least the story with the Molten Alliance doesn’t seem complete. We’ve never even met the leaders.

Medkit 5 also gives swiftness for less spamming of kits.

Raven.9603:

Also, flame trap isnt lasting forever like other traps, its only lasting 90seconds

and i think we might be jumping the gun here, these could totally just be bugs.

The dagger thing sounds like a bug but the traps one sounds more intentional. The amount of time is up for debate but what would actually require having them up forever?

Veldan.4637:

When an event fails you get the reward anyway (I’ve never understood why) so maybe you saw more events fail but you thought not cause reward popped?

If you really want to know why you can search around the web a bit. The devs addressed that a couple of times and the reward for failed events is less than successful ones.

Hebee.8460:

I have yet to salvage a ecto, but has anyone figured out the “average” return of dusts?

Depends on which salvage kit you use. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/For-Science-Ecto-to-Dust

Mattargul.9235:

For the most part I have had good experience with the holos and other players. If they see you running up they usually wait to trigger, or say “tx” if you wait, and most of smart enough to use their basic attack, so they don’t one shot the whole mob with their Hundred Blade zerker build.

That being said, the mobs are way to fragile. If you have more than 3 players at a projector, even with basic attacks, not everyone will get hits in. Typically this will cause the players to disperse, so it doesn’t happen too often.

You don’t need hundred blades for that to happen.
I use 10/10/20/30/0 while using magic find armor, magic find runes and magic find trinkets. While fighting them in frostgorge they still die very quickly.

As for the issue of leeching … just step away from the event area for a bit and let the mobs fix that issue for you.

lordkrall.7241:

darkace.8925:

Unless someone is really bad at managing their inventory, I don’t see why anyone would not use the automatic aoe loot.

People playing WvW might have issues with this, since we often are out in the field for quite some time without visiting a merchant.

Hmm more reasons for those services NPC upgrade, might also help ANet sell more merchant express.

Unlikely if you don’t know what happened to them. Also unlikely if you accidentally destroyed them.

Randulf.7614:

There’s a spider one in Kessex I think it is. If you fail, the spider eats the NPC.
And a drake one in Bloodtide where the npc gets digested for being..basically an idiot.

Maybe there are two such events but the spider one sounds more like the one in Harathi Hinterlands. The spider being Gargantula.

You can’t really fail the drake event but there is more than one successful outcome. If you don’t kill the drake fast enough it digest the idiot NPC and regains a big chunk of health, if you do kill it in time it spits the NPC back out and it becomes a vendor. There is no failure state for that event.

If you upgrade you will lose the skin. If you want to keep it then you should upgrade first then apply the cover.

Funlay.2403:

Hi
What I don´t understand is this: If those quests are finished, why do they appear on my screen?
I´m trying to buy the second manual but with the travel and fixing my armor, I never have more than 70 White coins. By the way, don´t you think the prices are very steep? Is that so the player has to buy coins with real Money?
Thanks for your help.

People keep going for that conspiracy theory but no … well it’s an option. It was a bit steep on the first character but after that it doesn’t matter. I have bought 9 of the first two manuals and 8 of the third(I could get a ninth easily but I don’t like any of the mesmer grandmaster traits). Also while the manual have level requirements it doesn’t mean you have to get them as soon as you reach that level.

Finally saw you screenshot. You are actually seeing that because you have the achievement selected for the tracker. If you open the achievement panel and uncheck it that will go away. The current thing is stuff for Dragon Bash.

There was a new POI added to Divinity’s Reach with the latest patch. That POI is also currently inaccessible.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

If it involves laurels then I don’t think it will be a problem. After I got to 100 laurels I just stopped doing dailies. I’m sure there are people with 150+ with nothing that interests them.

Got my cat tonic. Getting some ascended stuff now. With 9 characters I don’t think I’ll run out of uses for laurels any time soon and if I did there are still 2 minis. If I STILL have excess laurels after that then probably Mystic Binding Agents.