Guild Wars 2

Make sure that is actually your first time completing it on that character. You do not get anything for completing it a second time as a result of the new WP/POI being added.

All the maps mentioned in this thread so far have been maps that have had either a WP or a POI added.

If it IS that character’s first time completing it then it would be useful to note that to help narrow down the possible list of problems.

As far as I know that is just how it is with exotic drops in FOTM. That is just from people complaining about it in other sections of the forum. Not like I ever get exotic drops.

I’ve been getting this since a couple of patches ago. No idea what is causing it. Best guess at the moment is my browser(because I have the dragon timer opened in one of the tabs).

There isn’t enough room below to fit the chat box with the window size you have set. If the chat box was moved to where it would “normally” go it would end up covering the weapon swap button with your setup.

Behellagh.1468:

I go see if the Keeper of the Waves is up in Gauntlet Gulch in Mount Maelstrom. It’s a vet and defeating it opens a portal to Dierdre’s Steps which has a few Vet Earth Elementals there.

If the Keeper isn’t up then there are a couple of Vet Jungle Spiders with their posses roaming near where the Keeper would have roamed as well as a vet mossheart (I don’t go after them since they are neutral but sometimes they accidentally get caught up in my AoEs and if they are going to attack me anyway…).

There should be a veteran moa near the keeper as well as a veteran wind rider not far to the east. To the south there are 3 veteran skelks, a veteran boar and a veteran jungle troll. That is all along with several mature/verdant herb nodes plus the artichoke patch.

AzureDragon.1482:

I think if you open the list of servers from the log-in screen it should give you an option to guest to a server instead of paying to change home worlds. I think you are limited to only having 1 or 2 servers in total you can guest on per week (to prevent people from jumping around to each one back to back).

You can guest up to 2 servers and you can change every 24 hours. It is only actual transfers that are limited to once a week.

Danikat.8537:

As far as I know both sets of servers are always reset together so there’s been the same number on both EU and US servers.

No idea why there’s people with more achievements, I’m on an EU server and I hardly ever even hear anyone discussing achievement points, I didn’t think anyone was that interested until I saw topics on the forum.

Doing both PvP and PvE dailies and monthlies.

Viking Jorun.5413:

For those people arguing that it’s a “legendary” mining pick: it’s more of an underwater legendary. Nobody but you will ever see it.

Actually it’s better than the underwater legendary. People will actually see it more often. Other people can see the animation from the axe.

You can open Gw2.dat with Gw2Browser. The source can be found on github.com and it has a link to binaries as well.

Verdance, Silence and Eternal Radiance are open on Desolation right now.

Day Trooper.3605:

Dasorine.1964:

from what I’ve seen you don’t need to be the wisp runners you just have to get to the boss room without hitting any of the traps.

As of a couple nights ago I didn’t get the achievement and I’m certain I didn’t trigger any traps. However I also didn’t run any wisps, and so I figured that must be the difference.

I’ll try it again without running any wisps and report my findings.

Some of the fractal achievements are a big buggy. Friend had a similar issue with Carrier Cacophony. Didn’t get the achievement despite not being downed all. Some people have reported similar issues with the achievement in the volcano fractal.

That doesn’t make any sense. Do you have people on multiple servers doing missions at the same time?

Day Trooper.3605:

Dasorine.1964:

As long as you personally don’t trigger any traps you should be able to get it, only way pugs can prevent you getting it is by taking multiple wisp runs to succeed thereby increasing the amount of time you got to dodge all traps/

This is precisely the issue and hence why I thought I’d ask if anyone else needs help getting this too so we could party up and knock out.

Also someone above said something about going afk and getting the achievement – I’m fairly certain you must return a wisp in order to get it so afk’ing isn’t an option.

I am 100% certain you CAN go afk because that is essentially how I did it. I didn’t really go afk but I was at the spawn area browsing the TP while people were running the wisp. Then I sloowly moved towards the boss after that was done.

Haven’t had that but I can think of one possible issue depending on how close you were to the 15 minute limit. I’ve noticed that it takes something like 30s to a minute for the game to register a successful hunt after killing the second target. At least that is how long it takes for the success message to show up in the chat window.

Mystic.5934:

WvW will never make you money unless you’re the extra range ranger that doesn’t take risks. every death is ~1.5s, and every kill gives you something like a 30% chance to get something likely worth 5c to 2s, say 1s on average. so you would have to kill 5 enemies per 1 of your deaths just to break even.

That is generally true but not always. The Outmanned buff removes armor damage from dying. I was farming a fully upgraded enemy camp that was near out spawn point the other day. It also includes 20% MF. :P

Mystic.5934:

I don’t see it as a convenience until they release the other 2 tools as well. still gotta go run back and buy sickles and axes. might as well buy picks while you’re there.

Having to run to a vendor is only one aspect of it. For me it would also save 2 inventory spaces since I no longer need to dedicate a spot for the ori pick and a spare mithril. For other people this could be saving 6 or 7 inventory slots. The other part of that is never having to check if you have to right pick.

The soulbound looks unappealing but having the Mystic Forge Conduit tells me this is mostly irrelevant … unless you also happen to have a Permanent Bank access on every character that is going to use this.

This definitely is a convenience item if you are converting gold to buy, at least right now. I will have to mine every ori node in frostgorge and cursed every day for over 6 years before I see any savings in gold from having this(compared to a regular ori pick). I know there are more ori nodes but getting those as well just increases the amount of time I have to spend doing something other than how I normally play.

penatbater.4710:

you just gotta keep on moving. remember that the attack animation of mobs usually are pretty slow so even if you’re in melee, you gotta learn how to kite them. If you’re having problems surviving, i suggest a staff and a scepter/shield as they’re more support/defense-oriented weapons. You probably won’t do a lot of damage, but it might help you survive and learn the dungeon.

That is mostly true but Virtue of Justice’s burn can make it impossible to see what a mob is doing.

Anyway you CAN stay melee nearly all the time. There are only a couple of cases where you need range. One place that comes to mind if the Ascalonian fractal where you have to destroy the oil(I guess you don’t HAVE to but it makes things a lot easier and less risky). Those types of things you’ll learn about on the first encounter.

Your first couple of runs of a particular dungeon path doesn’t really mean much, they are basically all for learning what to expect. Once you have learned what to expect you should be adjusting your skills and traits and possibly the rest of your gear to deal with what is coming.

You can melee the Shatterer but you have to pay attention to when it flies up. If you stand where it’s claws(possibly the rest of the body) land then you will take a huge amount of damage. By being at melee range you are also more likely to end up in the crystals(this can be dodged but it’s hard to see at melee range), if the other people do not get you out fast enough then you will be downed.

This should go in the bugs section. I’ve only had this happen once waaaay back when I did Claw Island for the first time but in that case the use of the Letter of Commendation didn’t event show up in the history log.

Dindin.2378:

same problem hardly see anyone playing around me, I remember something about overflow servers, maybe we are in one?

If you somehow missed the popup telling you are in overflow you can hover over the minimap. It will say Overflow if you are in one.

TooBz.3065:

Beginning zones and mid zones are often pretty empty. You may want to check out Queensdale (just use PVP to get to Lion’s Arch and take the gate to Divinity’s Reach.) There’s a major event that spawns there, so many people hang out.

The other starter zones have that too, except Plains of Ashford.
Caledon Fores – Jungle Wurm
Metrica Province – Fire Elemental
Wayfarer Foothills – Maw

What is your WvW Character Limit and WvW Character Quality set to? It have it set to enemies only but all the allies using fallback models still has team colors. Fallback models also seem to be male only ….

Necrid.2705:

• A single reward chest for each time you complete it (repeatable). Spawns in-game.

This has not been true since February.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-February-26-2013/1514186

Fixed a bug on certain world boss chests that was causing them to drop fewer rewards than intended. These chests can now only be looted once per day, to encourage players to fight multiple bosses and spread out across the world.

Tres.5427:

@ Fancy Footwork
You can not trip a single trap at any point in time and must successfully return a wisp to trigger achievement. (More than likely to prevent people from afk’ing at the turn in and kitten their other party members off)

Since someone else already necro’ed this …

If you are implying that you have to be one of the people running the wisps to get this achievement then that is simply not true. I got this when I was effectively afk at the spawn point(wasn’t really afk, just browsing the TP). Once the other people cleared the wisps(took 2 or 3 tries) I slowly made my way to the boss to avoid the traps. Obviously I still got the achievement from that otherwise I wouldn’t be posting. :P

Filters are also shared between all characters. If you set a filter on one it will filter for every character. Restarting resets the filters.

Wooboost.8527:

Someone said you won’t make money which is pretty true but you still want to make lol I don’t get why people do this, crafting anything is mostly more expensive than buying it and selling the mats.

That is not quite what was said. There is a difference between crafting to sell and crafting to use. You can end up losing if you craft to sell while still saving money is you craft to use because of the taxes and fees.

The savings may not be huge but if you can save 10 or 20 silvers crafting something yourself then why not?

You are just misreading the launcher(to be honest they shouldn’t have done the progress bar that way but anyway …). The progress bar DOES NOT indicate how complete your download(mostly GW2.dat) is. The progress bar DOES indicate how much closer you are to getting the missing bits SINCE you started the launcher.

What you should be looking at is the number of files left. Unless that number is resetting there is no issue.

Loreclaw Expanse is fairly easy if you take the alternate path without the traps.
Dark Reverie can be done without doing the previous part if someone else finishes Morgan’s Spiral and opens the door for you.

I had a list of around 20 easy ones earlier but the forum ate the post when it wanted me to relog.

For that specific scenario I would say no. If the kick was something like after you have gone partly through the next path then that would be a different story.

Their actions are still extremely rude but there isn’t really much else to be said about it.

This game has some funny ideas about “falling”. Walking down certain sloped areas can trigger a pile of falling damage. The stairs for walking into the jumping puzzle in the blue keep in Eternal Battlegrounds had a section like that, not sure if they fixed it yet.

They have it under the wrong name. It’s the PvE version is listed at Conjurer Mantle.
[&AgHqCgAA] is the code for the berserker version. Search for Conjurer, Masterwork, shoulder and lv80 and you should have the right item.

Mystic.5934:

If you are not interacting with a bounty for a short period of time (de-aggro), they will run away even if time is not up.
It’s happened to us before. We started a fight with only a few guildies present because we were rushed for time, but it killed us kinda quickly, and the nearest WP was far away, so it happened that no one was there for several seconds while the first to die were still running back, and she ran away.

Hmm forgot about that one. We had that happen when we got Poobadoo the first time. We activated and it ended up on the TINY sliver of land near the bandits in the southern part of the route. We thought we could pull it over to the skales but bounties do not seem to pull.

notebene.3190:

But what if getting an Ascended weapon is rather difficult, relative to my play style? If I leave the Legendary weapon as is, it would get bumped to Ascended status (presumably), and I wouldn’t need to go get an Ascended weapon, I’ve done my work, no?

But if I used it as a skin on an Exotic, and it’s lost it’s qualification for insta-upgrade (again, assuming that’s what they do), then as you say, I would have to get an Ascended first to transmute it on, which if they start out only being available in the fractals, for example, I would never be able to get.

So that would be a bit unfortunate. I guess if I do happen to get a Legendary built before all this happens, I’ll just put it in the bank for awhile.

Not really an issue unless you are impatient. They HAVE mentioned numerous times that obtaining ascended items will be available through all areas of the game. It is not a question of IF but WHEN.

MLieBennett.9031:

This makes me want to take a Tank Mesmer into a Dungeon, once I get some practice and all the right gear.

Just imagine, all those Clones (Signet of Illusions) having the same high Toughness, being spawned in Melee, and constantly Crippling/Random Debuff nearby targets when they die/get replaced. It won’t work 100% of the time against all mobs, but quite a number using the simplistic “Closest and Highest Toughness” aggro rules over the other possibilities lets this work. If Clones don’t do the trick? I.Defender + The Mesmer myself would tank.

Still trying to decide on the best method to that madness is though.

I know someone who does from time to time and you forgot Distortion and Blurred Frenzy.

darkace.8925:

A dagger/dagger thief can dodge and evade attacks almost without limit. The downside is being stunned without a stun-breaker can ruin your day.

Sword/Pistol seems better in every way.

1 – permanent cripple and weakness with the right setup
2 – teleport/stun break/condition removal/immobolize all in 1
3 – stun/evade
4 – daze
5 – blinds and provides smoke field to keep blinding

You can use a PS3 controller with the driver from http://www.motioninjoy.com/

On the other hand with people from all over the world playing it is going to be a bad time for someone no matter what you change the reset time to.

Long queue time during primetime? Of course there will be longer queue times, it’s called primetime for a reason. The solution to long queue times would be higher server capacity(and maybe shorter idle time) but that is not so easy.

Does making a mad dash to grab objectives right after reset provide some sort of advantage(might depend on tier, doesn’t seem to make any different for tier 1)? If so then that is a design problem not a ‘when is the reset problem’.

Oh and the daily, monthly and guild mission resets should move too. More so for daily than the others but having them out of sync would be ‘a bit inconvenient’.

Danikat.8537:

That is exactly what I’ve been wondering.

When you transmute an item you’re technically creating a completely new one from two existing ones. The name is carried over from whichever skin you keep (usually, I’ve noticed it doesn’t always work with the HoM skins) but everything else about the item comes with the stats. So technically when you transmute a legendary skin onto an exotic what you’ve got at the end is still an exotic and not a legendary. But with a tag saying ‘transmuted’ added.

I don’t know enough about how the item system works from the programming/database side to know if it’s even possible for Anet to identify what skin a transmuted item has, so it might not be possible for them to upgrade these items, even if they want to.

As far as I know Anet haven’t said anything about how it will work yet. I’m not sure if they’ve even given it much thought or if they’re leaving it until they actually start planning to add Ascended weapons. (Or maybe they’re trying to work out if it’s possible before they say anything.)

So yeah, all up in the air at the moment. Personally I think people who transmute legendaries are taking a big risk and if I get one before Ascended weapons come out I don’t think I’d take that chance (I’m not a min/maxer so it doesn’t matter that much to me anyway), but ultimately it’s up to them. At least the ones who read the forum regularly should know the risk they’re taking.

Not that big of a risk. At worse you need to get another ascended weapon plus another crystal. Still easier than getting a legendary. Identifying the items would be trivial. That information is stored in their database, it is read every time you load a character.

Every class can do it, best depends on the skill of the player. Passive defenses are easier but you don’t have as much control. Active defenses require using the right skill at the right time and lag can eat you alive.

All the stats would be transmuted including the defense. You also select which upgrade to keep if one or both have an upgrade already.

Riss.1536:

+1 for OP.
It’s a pain to find a group for story mode so why not add henchmens ?
And it’s also a pain to find a group without using a specific external website…
You do realize that newcomers don’t really know it right ?

Adding henchmen to address that problem would be an extremely bad sign. It would mean ANet has completely failed to see real problem(this hypothetical, they are aware of what the problem is and will probably get around to addressing it at some point). Henchmen would be a bandaid solution.

dinominator.9862:

Have tablets and phones replaced consoles, PCs, and media set-top boxes yet? Methinks one day soon the video game industry will have to come to terms with that. Things like HDMI output, bluetooth, and especially DLNA over WiFi make it so that a tablet/phone could become a media gateway for the whole house one day. I think that’s going to happen and when it does, video games will suffer a regression in graphics quality and complexity for a while until the hardware catches up to current PC standards.

… but then where will PC standards be by that point? Seems like it would be a never ending cycle of catch up.

Technical challenges would be less of an issue than stuff like having to pay MS $10,000 per update and then having to wait for the updates to go through verification. Having it on console would mean having to deal with a more constraints.

MS and Sony will probably want a cut of the money from microtransactions too.

No idea about that. I would expect them to drop from icebrood stuff in Frostgorge and the Claw of Jormag chest(the big one).

How many things did you actually have missing in those two zone? Two of the zones you mentioned have had new WP added, that makes them less than 100%. Getting them back to 100% again does not get you the completion reward a second time.

Every type of bounty has a 15 minute time limit from when you activate it. Once you find a target you have around 5(?) minutes to kill it before it runs away at which point you can try to find it again if the 15 minutes hasn’t run out yet.

There is a message in the chat window when a bounty is activated. The interface for checking your target is indeed terrible.

The clue for is

Wanted for questioning about attacks against charr merchants serving Ebonhawke peace delegations. Suspected of being a Separatist.

The big clue would be Ebonhawke which gets you to the right map. In theory you are supposed to search everywhere but obviously people have come up with ways to get around this.

For many of the targets it is actually better do it with a smaller group than a giant group. We’ve completed two tier 1 with 6 people. We almost finished a tier 2 with 5 people(lot of luck involved there with finding the first two targets). We missed the first month’s worth of commendations because people were saying “you need a minimum of 10 people” and unfortunately we believed them.

aeneq.1760:

There was a long analysis thread about this before but if I recall the sigils can be divided into three types, triggered, static and stacking. All sigils within the type share cooldowns unfortunately (this means that an onswap trigger share cooldown with a proc chance trigger)

This is from memory but you can easily test it yourself.

This sucks if you have a very long cooldown on a sigil (like rage being 45sec) then all other sigils of that type would be blocked until the cooldown expires.

It is actually worse than that! The cooldown is not restricted to one per type.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil#Cooldowns

Zaxares.5419:

@akamon: OK, so to crafted a Corrupted Greatbow, you would need an Etched Bow of Rage? Did you test whether or not putting a Sigil of Rage into the Etched Bow (therefore soulbinding it) would still allow the Corrupted Greatbow to be crafted?

That won’t work. The Corrupted recipes want the lv80 versions of those Etched weapons. There is only one lv80 Exotic Etched Greatbow which is the version with the Rage sigil. Actually all the lv80 Etched weapons have a rage sigil.

Melanie.1240:

Oooh. o.o And does that mean my server is doing good or bad? I played games where when a server/nation was doing good they would get buffs, but I also played games where underpopulated and/or losing servers/nations would get a buff.

The buff doesn’t really tell you much about how well your server is doing. You need to check the score for that. The buffs never decrease except during WvW reset which is at the same time as the Friday→Saturday daily.

I have 9 lv80. Lowest world completion on any of them is 41%. The people I play with span many timezones(one is 12 hours apart) so I tend to solo a lot. I also play on a EU server from the US so there tends to be less random people on the map as well. None of them really had much trouble soloing outside of maybe a couple of skill points. Some are certainly easier than others but there was never a case of “I can’t do ____ unless I am a _, _, _ or _”. Most of my characters are in the middle between tank and glass cannon.

Picking traits and utilities that matches each other AND your playstyle is also important. For example, if you prefer to stand around and trade blows with the enemy then you should probably take more defensive skills and traits. I also try to take traits that give me a bit of flexibility based on the other traits in the same slot. My Engineer usually has the burn on crit trait which is useless against destroyers and fire elementals but there is a bleed on crit trait in the same slot.

For my thief I have a Rampager set for general roaming around killing things and a Rabid set for slightly tougher encounters. Stealth can get you out of many sticky situations so if you find yourself in those very frequently it would be worth carrying one of the stealth skills. Tagging isn’t much of an issue with a Shortbow. Weapon sets are also important depending on how you fight. Dagger and Pistol are both single target so you should avoid aggroing too many things at once if you use those as your main hand weapons.

Whenever you die you should look at the reason for the death. Was it too many enemies? Try a multi-target weapon or ranged single weapon to pull fewer at a time. Overwhelmed by conditions? Check your weapon skills/utilities/heal/traits. Wiki can also be very useful finding out about condition removal skills/abilities you didn’t know you had!

For me, many of my deaths can be attributed to impatience. Trying to run through an areas instead of killing my way through. This is mostly the case if there are ranged enemies in the area. Especially ranged enemies that apply conditions.

My thief.

Superior Studded coat
Bloodsaw gloves
Rascal pants
Rascal boots

Master of Overkill has been 0 Achievement points for as long as I can remember. It was like the long before the bug that reset everything to max-1. As for Master Crafter I never paid enough attention to notice what it was before.