Guild Wars 2

Sentinel has Vitality as the main stat instead of Power. Doesn’t really seem as useful.

The fight did used to be tougher. The eye’s HP was reduced in the October patch. Now it’s possible to burn it down fairly quickly. It also feels like the damage from the eye beam attack got reduced but that was not mentioned in the patch notes.

I am surprised they didn’t accidentally buff the eye while making risen “more interesting”.

rickyp.5240:

Vayne.8563:

It looks to me like the calculations are correct. There are easy ways to correct it if it doesn’t work for some reason too. Like by the time you get to EotN you’ll have three heroes. Putting one of them in upgraded armor will also give you a point. There are a lot of things you can do relatively quickly if for some reason this doesn’t work.

Basically ten points is not hard to get.

Awesome thanks!
One last question is it hard to reach the Hall of Monuments in the Eye of the North Campaign?

Very easy. It’s the second outpost.

Nomad.9764:

mercury ranique.2170:

Nomad.9764:

Ok what I meant was what is the best at ranged, mobilty, survival mixed in one n good at WvW dungeons n PvE

Still the answer is the same. The classes are very well balanced. If it wasn’t there would be one people where playing and the rest where totally neglected (specially with lack of the classic trinity rules: melee, dps, healer).

The difference between classes are in playstyle. Do you like to summon? Do you like a nuker thats squishy? Do you like to have a pet? Do you like using conditions?

I would like a class that excels in range n survival, AoE n conditions seem pretty cool I’m thinking ranger?? What are they like??

Engineer with grenade kit and Grenadier trait.
1500 range and all AoE. Also one f the better underwater skill sets.

You can do the swap, just make sure your friend isn’t the one to open the dungeon instance. The exp you get from finishing a dungeon depends on the character level. It is always 70% of your current level.

The gold reward you get is ALSO scaled to your level so you are basically giving up gold for exp. Probably simpler to just take the gold and level with crafting.

It’s from the other bosses in the middle.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Dungeon-crafting-recipe-drop-list/1201691

This was actually “fixed” at some point? I have a screenshot from November 13 which does include tooltips but involved some stupid contortions to get them in there. So this has been broken at least since then.

Who would leave loot lying around? The same people who would leave they map completion rewards lying around and wondering why they weren’t getting the world completion reward/title?

The chests also solves a secondary issue(might not be intentional). In certain story mode dungeon/personal story instances cutscenes can corpses to despawn. I’ve gone through way too many of those where I saw a lootable corpse just before the cutscene but the cutscene removes the corpse no matter how fast I hit skip and there was no way to press F fast enough.

There is apparently some research showing that people more excited about opening chests than looting corpses. Not sure if that was a general bit of research or something ANet commissioned.

Mystic.5934:

they won’t make it useless. too much revolves around it.
some players would argue it’s currently useless. :P it’s mostly a matter of what people want out of the game: fastest kills or make the most out of each kill.

You can get the best of both worlds by doing it in a group.
This is assuming open world stuff. MF gear in dungeons is not a great idea …

darkace.8925:

Casual is a state of mind, not a time card. One can casually play four or more hours a day

Mount Maelstrom is a great map for that!

Colin’s post sounds very much like Diablo 3’s Paragon levels(each Paragon level gives you +3% MF, with a cap of 300). In that case no your MF gear will not stop being MF gear but you will/can eventually completely remove all your MF gear without losing any MF.

Personally I might still go make some exotic MF trinkets(already made the MF armor) but I wouldn’t get ascended unless I had nothing better to do with laurels/commendations. The one exception(for you) might be the amulet since it can have the MF infusion as well which can provide a much bigger boost.

The change if it ever arrives is not likely to arrive any time soon. Maybe not even this year. Reading Colin’s post it sounds like they don’t even have the changes planned out yet. Once THAT is done it would need to be implemented then tested and possibly back to planning depending on how the testing goes.

If lines are getting cut off I would try re-verifying the Gw2.dat(or redownload if your connection if fast enough).

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line
You could use either the -repair or the -verify option.

Trehearne’s overlapping dialog is “normal”. I’ve gone through that part with 4 or 5 characters and it was always overlapping like that but never had any issues.

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

Mad Rasputin.7809:

Keys are rarer drops than precursors. Really. It is so ridiculous.

But they do in fact drop.

I’d go along with this. I was lode farming when i got my first one at ~2100 hours logged. I’d hazard that a precursor would stand a better chance at dropping than a key, but I’ve not had one of those drop either.

Ridiculous is a good word, but stupidly rare is more apt. For a white item whose only real purpose is to serve as an aide for alt’s (and maybe get a fused weapon ticket) it’s beyond a joke.

If that was actually the true I would have more than 3 precursors by now. Unfortunately that is not the case.

rogerwilko.6895:

Are the laureals worth it? I saw that one can buy rings/earing/amulets (mainly) but it takes an insane amount for just one (whole, as in with the upgrade slot fileld) item.

They have bigger numbers.

They make the game easier since you now have higher stats and the monsters stay the same. Maybe noticeably easier, maybe not depending on things like how you are doing now and what stats you are doing for. It definitely won’t turn you into a god walking amongst mortals.

They are also eventually required if you plan to do high level fractals.

That is the only thing where ‘fairness’ counts. When it comes to looks one person’s awesome looking piece of gear is another person’s ugly piece of crap.

Fair in comparison to what? You can get the equivalent stat for 300 dungeon tokens.

Well regardless of their usefulness they are still extremely rare. If you use rarity as the sole determining factor for price their current price is actually pretty reasonable compared to Vial of Powerful Blood.

They are also used to make omni infusions.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge/Other_Items#Fine_Infusion_recipes

o_O How many karkas have you killed? We(running around southsun to get WP unlock for someone in preparation for guild bounty) were getting quite a few. You might also want to try the arctodus near where Claw of Jormag spawns. They are much easier than karkas. The skelks near shattered ice floe also in frostgorge has been decent as well but I do that with an engineer and grenades are probably one of the better underwater attacks.

rogerwilko.6895:

How about post 80 for a player that plays casual and fragmented (often I am unable to play dungeons / fractals because of IRL ) ?

My main is a decently geared condition necro. Should I go Orr? / Should I use some MF food maybe(would rather not use MF gear because I`m not that tanky)?

My next goal is to buy bigger bags (still using 5×8 slot bags) and since I am unable to run fotm, I need to find other ways.

Thank you.

One of the easiest source of gold for me is Vanilla Beans. I usually go do the Golem event in Mount Maelstrom and afterwards there are a bunch of herbs that is not too far away. Takes about 5 minutes to gather all 8 depending on their locations. Obviously you won’t always get Vanilla Beans but 15 from the 8 nodes isn’t very unusual. There is also a patch of artichokes.

Another option, check orrmaps.com / gw2nodes.com and gather as much of the ori as you care to.

If you haven’t done map completion for the 3 orr maps/mount maelstrom/frostgore sound/possibly fireheart rise then you should definitely do them since their rewards include 2 exotics. They won’t be level 80 exotics but they can include expensive runes/sigils. This assumes you have at least 1 Black Lion Salvage Kit from whatever.

There IS an official forum, it’s at https://forum.guildwars.com/forum

Skolia.2408:

@Saulius, interesting, when would that switch happen?

Tomorrow’s WvW reset which is at 9PM EST.

Which sigil and rarity? Doesn’t seem to be a problem with Major/Superior Bloodlust and Superior Luck.

Are you getting horrible lag in the open world areas? I don’t mean the actual numbers when you try to ping the game servers, see below. A friend has been getting that since several patches ago at specific times of the day(near reset). If he creates a dungeon instance other people can’t get in and if other people creates it he has trouble getting in. Even if he does get it the lag is even worse than the outside.

What is really strange is that his ping is actually MUCH better than mine. Where he gets 8ms I get 80ms, where he gets 100ms get 150ms. We live in the same city(but use a different ISP) and play on the same server. In fact that has happened while he was standing right next to me on the same map.

Does it make any difference if you try to walk in through the dungeon entrance?

Mentalhead.5721:

Draknar.5748:

zenleto.6179:

I’ve levelled a few characters through there and I’ve never seen anyone do Gargantula (including myself). Never even tried it. There usually are a few people working on the big event chain through the camps though. And there is a big daily chest at the end of that.

Might just be your time zone.

And I agree there should be one or two more Asura gates around. The one to Fields of Ruin is nice to have.

I’d say that’s because Gargantula was bugged since launch, and as far as I know it still is. I tried it a couple of months ago, the dumb spider reset constantly just like it did when I first tried him not long after launch. You literally couldn’t kill it. I swore to never waste my time on it again.

I never had problems with Gargantula, it resets 2 or 3 times, and I always thought it was its own unique thing. To be honest, that’s the thing I like most about it, the fact that it has those “reset phases”.

Sometimes being unique is not a good thing. Especially when your uniqueness has a strong resemblance to bugs in other parts of the game!

azurrei.5691:

don’t wear MF gear and you will get more UNID’s…why? They are a white quality item…MF increases chances of item drops to be of higher quality. This is my theory ,anyways, after wondering why I got tons of dyes while leveling but very few at 80. For me personally, my theory has proven to be “correct.”

I’ve been thinking the same for a while but only got around to testing that last night. I was killing dredges with a friend for Heavy Miner’s Bags which are also white. I have 119% MF, friend has 180ish MF. I ended up with 77 bags while friend ended up with 98. The other thing to consider is that there is still a tier below white(common).

Also got 3 unidentified dyes while doing that. :P

In the case of unidentified dyes the difference in “drop” rates can also come from how diligent you are about harvesting plants. I’ve also noticed that I seem to get more unidentified dyes with lower level characters BUT I also know I tend to be more diligent about harvesting every plant(and mining every ore and chopping every tree) while I am leveling than when I am running around with a level 80. After realizing that I now harvest plants the same way on every character and the drop rates seems to be about the same as with the low level characters.

Ah that is a bit different then. The wurm was killable right after the pre-event but before it was fully spawned.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wall_Breach_Blitz
Has pictures and arrows of where you need to go.

So basically same problem as the Jungle Wurm before the last patch?

Could be related/caused by the general bug with parties where some party members either do not show up in the party window or show up as the wrong character. I’ve had people show up as if they were not in the party while inside a dungeon which is obviously impossible but at least some part of the game seems to think that was the case.

“dropping down into an area surrounded by molten lava and pipes” sounds like the Only Zuhl jumping puzzle but here are no trolls unless you mean destroyer trolls.

As for actual hidden bosses. There are two others I can think of that require you to /kneel at a specific spot.

There is also Oola’s lab which is opened with the Energy Crystal which is also in Metrica.

There are some DE which are only triggered if you joined a particular faction and have progressed beyond a certain point in the personal story but those aren’t really “bosses”.

Electro.4173:

Renegadek.1096:

Thanks. That’s interesting. I don’t see why they just don’t put the final numbers required as THE monthly goals. Guess I’ll just keep on killing stuff. :-)

Yah, I don’t really get the logic of the tiered system either. I guess maybe its to make the goal seem less intimidating or something, but really, I’d rather know up-front how many I need and how close I am than think I’m done and suddenly “Poof, you aren’t actually done, do another 25”.

Unless its just for the sake of adding more achievement points (you get points per tier finished). Maybe they want people to gradually get achievement points so you can still get some if you don’t actually finish the whole thing, rather than getting them all at the end only if you do it all.

Completion of each tier gives exp. Waaaay back before release in the blog post about these things they mentioned that they wanted people to get something out of these things even if they don’t finish the whole thing.

Ayrilana.1396:

You can run in and all attack and run out of range. Every group I have done has had a guardian or someone with reflect. It’s doable without reflect but it’s easier if you do. Watch YouTube videos and see how those without reflect do it. I remember my first group ever didn’t and we eventually got past them. If I recall, the archers do more damage if you move.

Riflemen(or marksmen? dudes with rifles :P) are the ones who do more damage to moving targets.

Archers are the ones who just randomly go invulnerable(it looks like they are using a very long Distortion).

So CM …
- forces you to fight in tight spaces
- tight spaces that the game’s camera can’t really handle
- a boss who chains knockdown in said tight spaces
- enemies who spam multiple AoEs in tight spaces
- hallway full of traps ending in ranged enemies(silver)
- traps are disabled by invisible trigger which may or may not require aggroing another group of enemies(also silver)
- boss which can chill you for the whole fight
- boss which periodically goes invulnerable
- boss which is possibly one of the easiest fight in the game …(I guess this one doesn’t really fit with the rest)

After all that the CoE story mode might still be worse(they actually buffed an enemy that was already capable of killing you with homing and piercing projectiles).

Masterwork → Rare stopped being useful when the ecto prices fell to their current levels, possibly a bit before that.

Oh right, should add that. For <80 items you just need transmutation stones which are much easier to get(map completion of any of the racial cities will give you 3).

You can use the transmutation crystals to re-apply them to future items but that means the previous item will be destroyed(you can keep the upgrade item). So if you buy one skin item you will only ever have one item with that skin.

It is. In fact all skin items are one use. To keep the skin you would need use Transmutation Crystals.

Draco Aurum.7520:

I have to agree with Khisanth, Warrior is definitely what you’re looking for.
I know a lot of people say they’re boring but I have more hours played on my Warrior than all my other characters combined and I’m still having fun with him.
Hope this helps you out!

Well in their “defense” some people also seem to think GS/Rifle is the only weapon set available for a warrior. In that situation I would have to agree with them because the GS animation is pretty boring to look at.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infused_equipment

yiriart.8629:

OK, guys, i wanna ask anyone knows the exp difference between discover a Green item and a Yellow item.
If i already have the recipe, is it worthy to level your crafting with YELLOW equipment or GREEN ones?
I’m a leatherman 150, and i just made a RARE shoulder and i think it gives about twice the crafting exp compare to discover a green one.

It also cost around twice the fine ingredients so that is about equal.

Svarty.8019:

What I don’t understand is – why have Arenanet implemented a system which isn’t financially viable?

The simplest answer would be that they basically forgot about these formulas or lost sight of the big picture when they made these changes.

Warrior would be the one that best meets all those requirements. It might not be the best for the WvW requirement but that seems pretty low priority.

Who can build those depends on the permissions set for the different rank. You can also get some of those banners with guild commendations which are obtained by doing guild missions. However it is better to save commendations for ascended accessories.

You really don’t need the +xp and you should wait until 80 for the +mf. That tiny bit isn’t really going to do much.

The collector in Wayfarer is back now. I just turned in two to that NPC.

Uruz Six.6594:

Or maybe hunting / farming achievements. ‘Kill Da Wabbit’ for dropping 100 defenseless critters.

That is already in as well, Indiscriminate Slayer.

Hmm but I can already go spear fishing. Although for some reason I only end up with a couple of fins or scales if I am lucky.

Fishing in TL II is a great cure for insomnia.

ocgreg.3910:

arenanet doesnt control the market prices, the playerbase does. So its not aNet’s fault if the player base makes something a loss to do

They DO control the prices, at least indirectly. Especially in the case of the t6 dust. They got hit twice. Once with the changes to the risen loot tables and a second time with the changes to the moldy bags.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Aleth.9630:

Funny how CoF is easier than AC story mode.

How long has it been since you’ve done AC story mode? Your statement may have been true at launch, when AC story did seem very hard in comparison to some explorables. However, it is no longer true. AC Story has been modified to be much more forgiving.

Heh … did it with 3 people around last week but none of us were level 30. Level 80 eng, level 80 ele and a lv46 warrior. I suspect that would not have gone as well in CoF (assuming the lv46 somehow gets boosted to the appropriate level).

On the other hand the TA story mode end fight is probably harder than both CoF p1 and p2. Probably even if you had to fight the p1 and p2 bosses at the same time.

Tony.6028:

I would say gold if you do dungeon runs, MF if you do event farming.

But really, it’s up to you and your personality. Gold drops will be more consistent. Magic find can return nothing or really awesome/expensive loot.

Yeah but even when it is awesome/expensive loot it might not be the awesome/expensive loot you were looking for.

Also just to make things explicit …. the reason for gold find in dungeons is because there are champions in there with guaranteed gold drop. 5 or 10s for the ones in AC, haven’t paid enough attention to the other dungeons.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-November-15-2012

The amount of loot that drops for downscaled players has been increased. You should now be able to receive level-equivalent loot until you are fighting at a downscaled level that is less than 2/3 of your actual level. You should also receive loot a greater percentage of the time as well as receiving a greater percentage of experience, gold, and karma. For level 80 characters, this means level 55+ areas will be able to drop level 80 gear and give about 75% or so of the other rewards. Previously, these areas would give level 77 gear at best and closer to 60% or so of your rewards.