Guild Wars 2

There is also the Ancient Karka Shell but just mixing different pieces would be much cheaper.

Solandri.9640:

RetiredBard.5294:

In the mail you would have received one item, but the thing is, that item is a container and when you double-click it, you will receive from it the skin, plus a leather strap back piece.

Part of the issue is that the leather strap counts as an equipment item (obviously). I have an equipment bag, so the strap showed up there instead of next to the quaggan skin. If my inventory had been full of stuff, I could easily have missed it.

Furthermore, the graphic for the strap is identical to one of the mid-level salvage items. So it’s very easy to accidentally salvage it (I’m assuming it’s salvageable like other equipment – I didn’t try).

That would actually be very unusual. All other back slot items are unsalvagable.

Wrong statue, it works with statues outside.
The Grenth statue in Lornar’s Pass definitely works. The buff lasts for around 9 minutes but it will also overwrite any food buff you have. The Dwayna statue in Harathi Hinterlands is used to start an event in the adjacent room. There is a door in Queensdale that you can /threaten to open.

Grenth isn’t a big problem. Melandru on the other hand … Especially the one near Sculptor’s End. The easiest way is to get that one is to jump from the diving goggles on top but if you miss it’s a long way to get back.

Quickness(Frenzy, Haste, Timewarp, …) can also help with these annoying communes.

digiowl.9620:

Khisanth.2948:

I guess the condition equivalent of a fumble would be stabbing yourself/setting yourself on fire?

Guardians already do the latter…

If only that was true. It would make it easier to use Inner Fire.

marnick.4305:

RL automatically patches through evolution. However sometimes very annoying bugs never get fixed because they aren’t critical. That stupid nerve on your elbow … any dev with half a brain would have fixed that ages ago.

Any fix to those won’t get applied to you anyway. So … no bugfixes EVER! Millions of years between patches.

In GW1 if the guild leader has been inactive for a long time(don’t know the exact time, might be 1 month). It automatically reassigned the leader position to one of the officers. Not sure if they kept that and unlike GW1 you can have multiple leaders in GW2 …

Oranisagu.3706:

really? I mean, sure, I’d like some fresh air in those stuffy catacombs, but I thought the boss fights (does this include stuff like burrows and traps etc? because I really like those parts) pretty well done in comparison with other dungeons (except maybe fractals). so I didn’t think they’d revamp the AC bosses completely. but if they want to, I surely won’t complain =)

http://dragonseason.com/Front/tabid/124/EntryId/211/Lunch-with-Colin-Johanson-Part-II.aspx

So in the February release –we haven’t talked a lot about this- but we actually rebuilt all of the bosses of the Ascalon Catacombs, from scratch. All of them will be brand new in the February release. I remember the encounters have all been re-done as well.

Never tested but the + would imply they stack. Stacking would also make more sense.

Janiblack.4802:

Has anyone tried to farm Steam Ogre boss in Metrica Province for Final rest? Just a thought. Not many people Battle that thing more than ones. It would be perfect chest for Final rest to drop for the rarity of that boss been fought.

Memory is a bit fuzzy but neither the boss nor the chest was all that large.

skullmount.1758:

Jezath.7395:

personally i think its in ashford, at the nighttime event there.

Has that event been mentioned before? Which event do you mean?
If it hasn’t been mentioned before in this thread, it can’t be it, since it’s been confirmed by a dev that the correct event has been mentioned afew/some/couple times in this thread.

There is the other thread …

Rieselle.5079:

Hmm, I bought a lvl20 masterwork breather from the TP. It has an upgrade slot.
However, my major rune of water cannot be equipped on it?

From elsewhere on this forum I’ve seen people talking about runes on breathers, so it seems it can be done. So what’s going on?

A Major rune requires a lv39+ item.

Bedlam.7958:

CC Eva.6742:

Hello Bedlam.

For a complete armor gallery, check this sticky created by the player Kestrel

That solves the desire to see the armors on the models, sort of.
But what about a way to preview dyes?

Just wait until next Tuesday/Wednesday, you’ll be able to preview all the dyes in the Trading Post.

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Do you think you can killstreak exp farm here? :o

Yes.
You can also farm a lot of the loot bags but there is the danger of hitting DR.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Help_Paenula_train_the_troops_by_fighting_in_the_pit_and_capturing_creatures

Useful for XP booster but not killstreak but if you are already 35 then just repeating AC is probably faster and more profitable even if you skip everything.

As for infinite spawn there is only one location that I know of. Also in Plains of Ashford to the east at Stonecrag Kraal. When the charr attempt to take that place and if you are the only person around. They stop when you capture the point but the last time I was there the spawn was fast enough/somethings took long enough to kill that there was always at least one enemy in the circle so it never moved. You’ll have to make sure you can deal with a veteran plus adds at the same time along with plenty of knockbacks and knockdowns.

Edit: forgot about this place https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Overrun-Seraph-Observer-Camp but luckily someone else just bumped it. Just bring a condition/poison removal and you should be good to go.

Movement skills can also get you out of that but not every profession has one and not everyone is always carrying one.

Like when it happened to me the other day on my necromancer. There was an “interesting” combination of things happening at the same time but I forgot to make note of it.

SwampDonkey.2578:

Now on the sigils that count up on a kill like corruption, do those count up if I have it on my torch and actually get the kill with my axe ? Also does that bonus condition damage carry over when I switch to my bow ?

You can unequip the weapon with a stacking sigil and still keep the stacks.

Darxio.5672:

I have a mystic forge conduit, so I have a mystic forge anywhere I go.

That being said, when my inventory fills up and I’m not near a vendor, I try to turn my greens into yellows to make more space. Extremely easy to do with a conduit since I can do it anywhere in the world.

However, I typically sell greens if I am at a vendor. I can’t be bothered with all the sorting, and in the end its only a few silver to maybe 50 silver difference in how much money I’d have made if I had some luck(hint, my luck sucks).

No need to sort if you are throwing in weapons and armor which will be the case a majority of the time.

If we follow the usual pattern you will either get back 1 Eternity or 1 Ascended Greatsword …

I guess the condition equivalent of a fumble would be stabbing yourself/setting yourself on fire?

Zenith.7301:

Also, to be honest, a greatsword on a necromancer? Why make it a greatsword instead of a weapon for a necromancer? And, really, as a sylvari I would have loved to bear Caladbolg for myself, not let someone else keep that unique weapon skin who didn’t even use that weapon type.

The sword wasn’t originally made for him.

Weird … I guess there is no downscaling in there. You still get experience and there are infinite spawn. Most importantly in GW2 your experience per kill is based on the character’s level rather than the mobs level(mostly) and the loot will scale as well so they would also be getting gear upgrades.

If someone is willing to stand around the tutorial killing the same thing over and over again, getting to 32 shouldn’t be very difficult or take very long. It does not seem very efficient though.

This is why you buy gems when you think the prices are acceptable. Aiming for the perfect/best conversion rate is going to lead to this.

Vees.7816:

Kamahl.3621:

Hah, hah, hah. You’re assuming guild missions won’t be raids.

No, I completely forgot about the fact that there’s gunna be a thing called guild missions at the time I posted this. Nice try though.

Those are going to be open world, at least for now.

Despite the long posts on either side I haven’t seen any mention of the benefit of throwing more people into a single instance. What UNIQUE gameplay benefits does it have to offer?

Oranisagu.3706:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

it’ll be fixed in the next content patch.

wow, thanks alot! =) that’s great news.

now I only need to find a way to convince groups not to skip kohler and AC will be perfect ;-)

Well they are also redoing all the AC boss fights …

Sirendor.1394:

The exp boosters don’t work all that well, they only give exp for kills, which is by far the least exp you get. I’m an altaholic (I love alts) and it sucks to play all the content over each time. I have leveled 3 80s, one 60 and a few 20s

80 × 6, 66, 49 :P
They are more useful once the base exp is at least 100 but the other thing to keep in mind is that most of the foods and all of the stone/crystal/oils will give you a stat boost as well which means you can kill faster.

MiloSales.8560:

On the TP, you lose 15% on any sale. Never sell something for less than 16% more than you can get from vendoring it. Save your greens and toss them in the mystic forge in Lions Arch to get better gear. Check the TP first, but just because something is green or yellow doesn’t mean you hit a pay day.

19%, 18% for break even with NPC vendor but 19% might still be 0 profit depending on base price.

Hmm I would have to disagree on the rares. I don’t do them often(around once per week, sometimes less) but their drop rate for rares seems higher than killing random things. I’ve mostly only done Tequatl and Claw of Jormag( just have characters around those places more often).

Isende.2607:

if you have a chef, you can easily make yourself food for increased xp

if you have a weaponsmith, etc, you can easily make items such as sharpening stones, etc, to increase your xp

if you’ve collected drops from chests at ALL you should have a plethora of xp buffs just lying around, unless you’ve used them as you got them.

if you do dailies, you can buy laurel xp buffs for 1 laurel

in short, there are four easily-obtained buffs for you to use. c’mon, really? i stopped using xp buffs because i was leveling too fast. it’s so bloody easy to level in this game, it’s nuts. what more do you want?

You don’t need a chef, most food is dirt cheap on the TP. Same with the sharpening stone, maintenance oil and tuning crystal. They all provide the same exp boost so you can just buy the cheapest one. While they are already cheap, you can get them even cheaper with a buy order.

You can cover an hour’s worth of leveling with just 1 silver or less.

They would need to nerf burning damage into the ground before they can make it available for a weapon’s autoattack …

Kamahl.3621:

I’m not fond of hammer warrior in my dungeons because they spend a lot of time doing less damage and knocking mobs out of allied AoE effects, and overall just trolling you. Ever have someone knockback a mob when you use an effect like Grenade Barrage (21 second cooldown), and watch it miss entirely as a result? It’s not like lava font with a low cooldown, it’s just plain annoying.

I’ve had this happen with Elementalist, Warrior, Engineer, Mesmer, Ranger, and Guardian. Nothing special about hammer warrior. Judging from forums posts, some people just spam their whole bar on cooldown …

This is true for all skills of this nature. They used to be able to bring people back from dead but that was patched out fairly soon after release.

Blude.6812:

Been waiting for higher quality drops also, like above waiting for the update.
There will likey be a new map called ‘Blue Moon’ with a waypoint call ‘Once Inna’

@ Khisanth—is that true? I should get rid of all my magic find to increase my chances?

That is not what I meant. Basically you can think of chest as having some sort of inherent +MF. If you have no +MF then your chances are relatively better when opening a chest but if you DO have +MF then your own +MF might be better than the chest’s inherent +MF.

For example if a chest has the equivalent of +10% MF but you ate an Omnomberry Bar then killing stuff would have a better chance of giving you an exotic but if you didn’t eat the Omnomberry Bar the chest would have a better chance.

The key is that it is all relative.

Hopefully it doesn’t turn out to be abyss :P
Eye-balling dyes from an edited screenshot would be extra difficult due to color shifts that can happen from compression.

That sounds like an overly restrictive firewall …

Got Tahlkora’s Mask from the Shatterer a day or two ago. When doing map completion with some friends a frequent topic that comes up is “the champion we just killed dropped nothing but this Risen Chicken just dropped an exotic”.

Exotics can come from anywhere and any zone(this was not always true) but you’ll get higher chances in higher level zones. Chests will have relatively higher chances of giving an exotic IF you have 0% Magic Find.

Daze prevents you from using skills.
Confusion causes you to take damage whenever you use a skill. The more stacks of confusion you have the more damage you take per skill use. 1-3 stacks is usually still safe to attack through but more than that you probably want to stop attacking or remove it first.

When you deposit crafting items to the bank they end up in a separate tab in your bank.

Might want to try that with different skills inflicting the daze. Preferably different professions too. Because bugs.

Using a recording program like fraps and then stepping through the frames would probably be more accurate than a stopwatch since that will take your reaction time out of the equation.

Take the advice of the risen and Kill Everything!
I usually don’t pay attention to my levels but last night I was leveling my necromancer for about 3.5h for 5 levels. That was just killing whatever I came across as I finished the hearts and along with the rest of the maps. Also doing any event that I know I can handle. This was not my first time on that map though. I think on the first visit I spent an hour looking for the way up to a particular vista. >_<

I was also using a food and a tuning crystal for the +10% exp on them. It doesn’t matter which food you use since they all provide the same boost.

Jornophelanthas.1475:

Leveling your character while doing things you like is a major part of this game. Just racing your character through all 80 levels in order to reach the level cap is NOT the best way to go, as you are cheating yourself out of all the enjoyment of exploration and gradual improvement.
Just play the game to have fun, and you will hit level 80 before you know it.

On the other hand you do not have to worry too much about out leveling stuff due to automatic downscaling.

You can go “fishing” already! :P
Just jump into the water and stab some tuna.

ProxyDamage.9826:

Don’t you find it adorable when people who don’t even have a hint of what a clue might possibly look like, suddenly come up with what they think are “GENIUS IDEAS”?

It’s so horribly misguided you can’t help but feel it’s also kinda cute. Like a 12 year old kid saying that if we wanted to go faster in space traveling we should just use more rockets!

OP, I suggest you look into what “open source” and “proprietary code” mean. In definition and in both a pragmatic and business sense. You don’t dump millions of dollars and 5 years of development time into a long-term investment plan to then turn around and suddenly release the game code willy nilly.

‘Adorable’ isn’t the word I would use …

Open sourcing doesn’t solve any the items listed. Some are actually PURPOSELY left out.

Open sourcing has no benefit for ANet and only creates more problems. One of the items is basically a license to create private servers.

The lifesteal is always going to be lower than direct damage. Apparently the current CD on Sigil of Blood is also 5s and doesn’t work on 2h weapons …

Stun and daze are two completely separate things. You can still move while dazed but you can’t while stunned.

While stun and knockdown share the same effect the game definitely doesn’t consider them to be the same thing either since it uses a different animation for each.

Essence Snow.3194:

In terms of the Demagogue…..I have repeated the quests as they reset, yet the chest does not reset. Anyone know of any time frame/limit that chest abides by?

It’s probably a once a day thing like the JP chests. The one in the Vizier’s Tower seems like this too. The real one not the one that spawns the veteran.

There is a similar thing in the Orr maps. At least with shadows, I never bothered looking up to see if the actual dragon was there.

Rayya.2591:

for veterans , the fast way is wvw:
you find an enemy supply camp- minimum 4veterans inside ( maybe you find 2 dolyaks also 2 extra events)

The spot where the Champion oakheart spawns in Queensdale pretty much has 5 veterans there all the time.

Alternatively Tears of Itlaocol in Caledon has nothing but veterans as well.

Mazer.8923:

I’ve got a friend who never uses his keyboard except to type. He’s done this in several MMO’s over the years I’ve known him with ease. Probably something you’d really have to get used to but he uses a combo of a mouse and Razer Nostromo key pad. I don’t know what kind of mouse it is off the top of my head but I think it might be a Naga or some sort of Logitech mouse.

Doesn’t the nostromo have a thumstick for movement?

Hjorje.9453:

The shadow behemoth isn’t being farmed by level 80s though. I think this should stay on our list for now. It was broken for a while and when I go there, there isn’t a lot of lvl 80s around.

I will continue to do this on my 80 and see if I can get some more players there with me when it comes up.

An event that happens every couple 2.5 hours doesn’t seem very rare.

Compare the drop rate to pre-cursors is pretty silly. You could potentially get one from killing the lv2 skale outside Divinity’s Reach. The chance of that is probably infinitesimally small but it is still greater than 0 whereas the chance of getting final rest from that is impossible. Then there the fact that you can also get pre-cursors through Mystic Forge.

Astral Projections.7320:

Khisanth.2948:

notebene.3190:

Blacksmith.8679:

As of right now, I am 364/1000.

Where did you find your giants?

Well respawn is 1.5m to 3m and you can get two in Brisban. If you camp the spawn then you could get that over a weekend …

Two in Brisban? I know of one in Hirathi hinterlands (Krol Skullsmasher), one in Diessa Plateau (in town of Nageling) and and one (non champion in Toxol Bog) in Brisbane. Where is the other in Brisbane?

Same spot, sometimes it’s two.

Novack.8624:

1) As I said idea wasn’t perfect, AI would have to be changed but this would not be the first game where you have to protect and uncontrollable NPC, it’s not a new concept and has worked in many games in the past.

It wasn’t any good in guild wars 1, I doubt it would be any better in guild wars 2. Being a babysitter for a fragile berserker NPC was no regards for their own well being is no where near “fun”.