Guild Wars 2

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

ocgreg.3910:

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

VidGhost.3215:

You can buy Karma Armor from the temples for 42k Karma each and toss them in the forge..

Used to be able to salvage them for the runes and ecto’s but NOT anymore! Anet fixed that… but Mystic forging them still works fine.. 168k Karma for a chance at a exotic armor worth 2-5 Gold inst an issue for Anet. Probably better off with Orien boxes

If what Ryuujin had posted is true, wouldn’t this be considered and exploit?

The armor that VidGhost and Ryuujin are talking about are two different things. WvW karma armor and temple karma armor are apparently treated differently. If it was considered an exploit then Anet would have fixed them all at the same time IMO.

Unless its something they just overlooked. I’ve seen it done before in other games. I’d just hate to be banned for doing this if it was considered exploitive.

It’d be nice to get an offical answer on that and the rest of this thread, but you know how that goes.

Considering how often the forge spits out karma items, not allowing karma items to be used in the forge would be a really stupid move.

ocgreg.3910:

I guess since Ive seen it suggested in numerous threads that if Anet had a problem with it they would have said something by now. Maybe they think that ~165k karma to a cpl gold is a reasonable trade lol. The temple vendors aren’t all the time either. Just a guess since ya…official response, lol as if that will happen.

It’s a risk/reward thing. You could throw in 4 karma items and get back another karma item(probably the reason karma items are in the result list). What the devs don’t want is DIRECT karma to gold conversion.

Based on the cost of http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Crude_Salvage_Kit , http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Orichalcum_Mining_Pick and http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Alcohol it looks like 1 karma is worth 0.875 copper to the devs. Unless you find a way to make a guaranteed 14.7g from those 4 karma items then you aren’t getting more than what the devs think the karma is worth.

Maybe a staff specific issue. Works fine on a friend’s GS and spear even though they also say “of Accuracy”. I think there is also some other issue where sometimes if you are downed you can’t rebuild stacks until you go back to character selection and load back in.

The karma vendors also see exotic trinkets. If they are the stats you want you will need 252,000 karma for a full set (2 rings, 2 earrings, amulet, back). Then it is another 252,000 for the full karma set.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats#Karma

Virhe.9485:

Guilds what suffer from this should get free influence from this bug! From last time this did happen there didn’t get influence from that time what guild not worked so I doubt this time it count either! Have this same on my own guild also atm and no have feeling to much play. :/

When this happen it doesn’t necessarily happen for the whole guild. It can look completely fine to some and broken to others.

It looks like our dungeon run did count for the Influence but it was fine for at least one person in the party and although it was otherwise completely broken for me I still saw the build queue.

Simin, High Priestess of Dwayna is also looks like a largos but these might be for reasons unrelated to lore. There were creatures in GW1 that shared similar models but were not considered to be related.

At least two other people who happen to be playing engineer have reported the same.

Sounds like you don’t have enough money on your character to pay the listing fee.

In my experience it is much easier/faster to sell rares than exotics. Depending on how you use/invest your gold it might be better to sell the rares and do other things with the profits than gambling for exotics. Unless you are gambling for precursor of course.

Rhoklaw.4362:

Actually, I did place runes in the armor, so maybe that somehow bound them to my account, but the items do in fact still say, Soulbound on use and not Soulbound.

Applying any upgrade to an item will make them account bound even though the display does not change.

Several times but the stuff isn’t actually lost. Just leave it alone and everything should be back to normal in a couple of hours(or less). I assume this happens when the guild server is overloaded or having some other issues. I haven’t checked if influence earned while in this state is tracked.

The best thing to do here would be to do nothing. The upgrade is still progressing.

Eluveitie.1290:

Thank you both for your answers, that’ll prove to be very helpful! Any idea of how long would it take to finish it all by playing 5 hours or so per day? Considering I’m just gonna focus on learning lore and not grind gear or anything that isn’t necessary for the purpose. Also, are dungeons soloable? Is there any content (lorewise important and of course no PvP) where you actually need to party up with other players?

Well …. in theory everything is soloable. Since you only care about the lore that would mean no need for hard mode therefore practice will be pretty close to theory. That being said, it has been a while since I played GW1 and even longer since I had to rely on henchmen. GW1 is significantly easier with heroes than with henchmen if you have the skills unlocked.

With the introduction of heroes and the ability to control hero and henchmen positions one of the biggest disadvantages of using them was removed. In many of the encounters the biggest of danger is having everyone clumped up which tended to happen with henchmen. Heroes also make it possible so you can always have a character with interrupts. If you have Factions then Broad Head Arrow can be obtained fairly early which makes fighting any spell casting bosses very easy(this is probably one of the reasons Defiant/Unshakable was added to GW2).

http://gwpvx.gamepedia.com/PvX_wiki has many different builds for various purposes including ones for heroes(the AI is better at using some skills than others) if you don’t want to deal with that aspect of the game

Rare quality trinkets also require ectos to craft.

newzac.5783:

I know how the fight works, but I used to be able to unlock this dungeon with just one other person. Many times pre-guesting I set out for a 4 a.m. PUG run where the party was not on the same server, and two of us were able to stick together and beat him. His leashing mechanic seems to have changed and, in my opinion at least, he seems bugged. There are no other teleporting boss fights in the game where losing aggro and healing to full is part of the mechanic.

Well there is one other boss …
One of the CoE story mode boss will keep teleporting itself backwards until it leashes itself if you stand on the wrong position.

Time to make Volcanus/Incinerator!
Your mistake is not a game bug though so this is in the wrong section.

Balidyn.5016:

I have a similar issue with crafting ingredients. not all the crafting items are showing up when I bring up the discovery tab. for example, my gobs of ecto doesn’t show up, though I have several in my stash

You are trying to cook ectos? O_o

polarity.8906:

Problem #1 – Archaic server architecture.

This is already how ANet handles things. There are separate servers because of game design(WvW) not because of server architecture.

Rising Dusk.2408:

You should also add an L80 version of the omelet for sale so that I would actually consider using it as a food buff in dungeons and WvW and so on!

That item already exists. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Saffron_Stuffed_Mushroom

Robert Hrouda.1327:

I think it’s the case that there will always be clipping in one way or another When we pull it far enough off the back for it not to clip on heavy armors, people in light/medium armor have a large gap between their back and the item. We try to find the happy medium where we can appease as many as we can, but it’s not going to be perfect for everyone.
That being said, we are looking into these issues and trying to develop better systems for the back-slot items that will result in less clipping and less gaps. Certain armors will always be problematic, but we’re always looking into solutions for things like these

Could start with having fewer spikes. :P
I know someone over there has a great huge love for spikes(see GW1 assassin armor …).

If you are below lv60 you can get the karma tools from the various Bloodtide Coast heart vendors which only has a lv45/50 level requirement.

The alt will still need to be the same race to use it.

Since that character is a warrior. Just equip a sword and press 2(assuming you have the skill unlocked). You can cheat your way through a lot of jumping with Savage Leap.

All transmuted items will still remain account bound regardless of rarity. Bound items can not be sold on the TP.

You could also check http://gw2stuff.com/
Since people report on success/failure for those you can see if there was a recent success reported for that event. It probably gets updated more frequently than the various threads.

Soloing is not too bad. Henchmen can be a bit brain dead but there has been a bunch of improvements and you can control them to some degree now. Getting EotN makes things a bit easier since you can get heroes but you’ll need to unlock the skills to make them useful. This can take a while since leveling is slower in GW1 and it cost gold to buy skills. Then you have to outfit those heroes with runes and insignias.

You can get by with just the henchmen. Reading up on the missions on the wiki can speed things up quite a bit.

A limit would explain the weird thing I’ve been seeing. Seems more like a X/time period than a X/day. When switching between characters I would see a minimap full of passifloras but after harvesting a few the rest disappear and turn into harvested nodes.

Both the blooming and normal disappear so it seems the answer is “yes”.

Grassrab.9302:

You can join guild missions even if it not one for your guild. As stated you will not get the guild reward (commwndations etc), but you will get the standard event reward (karma plus a few silver) and a chest.
Any person completing the run will count as one of the 15 the guild needs to get the merrits so this is a benefit. Also don’t worry you are stealing one of the guild members rewards as any guild member finishing the rush within the 30 minutes get their reward.
The same goes for other guild missions.
Of course its always nice to ask if you can join.

While that is theoretically true, you should NOT try to help in a bounty fight unless you know the mechanics of the target otherwise it is likely you will cause the mission to fail.

I don’t think so … http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/c/c0/Avatar_of_Lyssa_model.jpg

Mourningcry.9428:

I don’t believe there is any equipment that is account bound.

Tokens, like gold or crafting, allow you to acquire an item that will become soulbound upon use. Karma, to a lesser extent through jugs and boxes… Use whatever character you want to acquire resources.

Don’t really see why dungeon armor should be an exception. Working as intended.

Edit: Just remembered there are a couple of items that are, like the Karka trinket. Memory lapse earlier….

Plenty of those, the two rewards from the new Southsun stuff. Lots of other Account Bound with Soulbound on Use like all the exotics from fotm.

All gear of the same level, rarity and prefix are exactly the same. The only reason to pick one over the other if the look. Cultural armor is only rare whereas lv80 dungeon armor is exotic. Exotic is better than rare.

There are few is any people who actually get cultural armor for the stats. It’s mostly for the look.

SAKRAY.3690:

So that means you can only use it in sPvP right? ^^

Yes … those are meant to combine all the attributes from all the different trinket slots. If those were in PvE they would make ascended and pretty much anything else look like trash.

Trap is a type of utility skill rangers and thieves have.

Agony and agony resistence are currently completely useless outside of FotM.

None of the racial abilities are all that great, under specific conditions they MAY come in handy. If you need a distraction and you are playing something that normally doesn’t have summons one of the sylvari/human/charr/asura racial summons might be useful but you could get the same thing from some consumables.

HotW p1 feels like it’s about the same length but the end boss takes longer to kill.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Flame-and-Frost-A-Rallying-Flame-Bonfire-Merged/2028136

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Flame-and-Frost-A-Rallying-Flame-Bonfire-Merged/2028136

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Could be this broken mouse making things more difficult than it is but 10+ crazed karkas for 2 players seems a bit excessive.

It looks like the last 3 that were put up went for 700g and 750g(unless the seller was extremely impatient and took it down after a few hours).

They are tradeable until first use.

For masterwork 2 handed weapons/chest piece/legging I sell to the vendors. The others get forged.

I also salvage all blues but in reality I should be salvaging JUST the heavy armor and weapons since cloth and leather are practically worthless.

sidneijr.7051:

wouw.5837:

I geuss you need it for clovers/the bloodstone thing

LvL up a new dude, you can buy those things with him aswell

You guessed right man… I need for my legendary, I was not sure If I could use the Bloodstone purshased with other toon, this seems to be the fastest way.

The Bloodstone Shard is soulbound but the rest of the items are not and the Gift of Mastery is account bound so you just have to use that character to make the Gift.

Drop rate for badges aren’t that bad anymore but I guess it depends a bit on the server you are on. Still slower than dungeon tokens.

You can get the thief starting headgear and transmute it over.
There is a headband and hood.

Elm.8169:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

But is there a way to deactivate the traps BEFORE your party does a suicide run to the other side? Is there any way to avoid casualties? I’d really like to know. Because maybe we’ve simply misunderstood the mechanics all this time… or maybe it was just really badly designed.

Try communicating with your party members, maybe. Tell them to stay back so you can go in and deactivate it yourself.

RedStar.4218:

And how is deactivating traps a cheesy strats ?

Oh I don’t know, maybe the devs put the traps and the three mobs there so we’d actually have to fight the mobs while dealing with the trap? Having a single thief/ele run to a certain point to deactivate the traps without killing the mobs completely trivializes the gauntlet. That was probably intended to save the groups some trouble running back after a wipe. I might buy it if there was an object you had to activate to disable the traps or something but having the traps mysteriously disappear when someone gets to a certain point sounds like it wasn’t meant to happen during the fight.

It still sounds like very sloppy design. See volatile blossoms in TA that never go away for another example. If they feel that it shouldn’t be necessary to run through it after a wipe once they have cleared it then they could just put a WP after the traps.

Ayrilana.1396:

Probably better to post in the thief subforum.

You’re either going to want to be able to use 4 seconds of evade or reflect. Once their projectile attack is over, they’re very easy. I’m not familiar enough with thief to tell you exactly what to do. If you were mesmer then I could.

In that case */P
Headshot would make it very easy to interrupt that.

That is how it is now. You can go find the post by Devon Carver if you want.

You can buy the +5 agony resistance infusion item for 75 fractal relics inside the fotm staging area from one of the golem vendors.

Bailey.6892:

Thank you all for the help! How many players are needed for the guild bounty at the lower ranks? We are missing a couple guild mates at the moment since they had to go and have a newborn.

Thanks again gang!

5 is enough for a tier 1. You could get a way with less if you are lucky with the targets. The main challenge with a small grou kitten earching some of the bigger paths. Having all the relevant maps fully explored by all participants is very helpful.

You will also with a mixed group. An all DPS group will probably explode from conditions, an all tank group would probably fail to kill within the time limit. For several of the targets you’ll want a decent amount of condition removal. Some will require disabling auto attack. You can ignore all of the above for Trillia.

Even though the NPCs patrol around, they CAN leash to the spot where you activated them.

laokoko.7403:

I think it is just a way to regulate item price. If promotion isn’t worth while there’s nothing that need to adjust.

If that is the case then it feels like someone really messed up with the t5 materials.

That looks like you need to check your filter settings. Changing those on any character will apply them to all characters until you restart the client.

Meluna.1764:

Serval.6458:

Soldiers armour sets can also be bought from different temple karma vendors in Orr or with WvW badges.

Unfortunately no. Light Soldier pants are not available in Orr temples. =(
I do think they have a heavy version though. Not sure…

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats#Karma
It’s a bit weird, every stat set is missing one piece while some stat set had 2 to 4 pieces from different temples.

It is pointless to talk about runes and builds and gear without knowing what class you want to use them for.

There is the general answer “don’t wear armor that is too many levels below your character level”. Stick with at least Masterwork quality.

Some classes can get away with underleveled gear better than others. I’ve done that on my guardian(on purpose) and on my necromancer(accident). It had a much lower impact on my necromancer than my guardian.

RedSpectrum.1975:

It depends on your profession really. Mazdak was impossible by myself on my thief, the only story mission I needed help with. As for Romke, my condition necro preformed very well on that mission. It’s about profession mainly.

Heh depends on when you were doing that step. The abomination before the door opens used to be pretty deadly for just about everyone. They nerfed it a bit at some point but recently they also gave abominations the charge attack. Not sure if they remembered to exempt that one. The charge attack can be difficult to dodge especially in the tiny room. The charge attack is pretty much impossible to dodge with 25 stacks of frenzy which the NPCs tend to provide for the abomination.

SAKRAY.3690:

http://www.guildhead.com/item/21168/valkyries-jewels

That is the jewel in question btw
Also thanks for the info on the Monk Rune!

That is a sPvP item. The stat is a combination of Valkyrie(Power, Vitality, Critical Damage) and Cleric(Healing, Toughness, Power).