Guild Wars 2

icy.9250:

It’d be cool if you could skip all the dialogue, at the least. This is why it’s so painful for me to go back and even consider replaying LS2 on other characters — you have to wait for them to completely finish their speeches before anything interactable comes up. Sometimes I just want explorable, and, yes truly explorable mode for stories, dungeons, etc. Very much like the Nightmare fractal, where you just cross a line or interact with an orb and the next part just begins. It’s not that I don’t like the voice acting but rather that I’ve heard it so many times…
Sometimes I’m just thinking, “Stop talking already — I don’t need to know why I need to interact with this thing, just let me do it.”
That’d greatly speed up your experience.

Makes you miss the good old days of walls of text doesn’kitten :P

Beats standing around for hours waiting for NPCs to kitten.

Also it is possible to simply walk through the portal without doing any part of the story. No idea if that is related to having completed the story on another character. It does make the scroll pretty much useless if your character already has Frostgorge Sound.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I was wondering: I can check with the team, of course, but perhaps the “free play” period was designed to allow people to get into the map, choose their location, and be ready to start a round of songs. If that was eliminated, might there be complaints about how we players are always joining in the middle of a session, which means we’d lose the ability to get maximum rewards? I’m just speculating here, but it crossed my mind.

That looks like a confession to never having completed a single full session of Bell Choir in the 4 years that it has been around…

There is already a break between every song to wait for new players.

ekkue.3754:

After reading this I got my hopes up and thought it might work, but no

I tried restarting using the ‘quit this episode button’.
Then I tried logging into another character who had completed it and restarted the story, then logged back to my character I’m trying to use the brazier on.

Something that is probably unrelated… I also just noticed that the master achievement award icon is not lit up and shows the normal icon on my hero panel instead of master. I have the gauntlets and as far as I’m aware, that is what the master status is for. The only achievement not completed is Koda’s Blessing.

But anyway, looks like I will just have to slog through the waves of HP sponges again.

Could be worse. Could be waves of HP sponges that spams immobilize.

Michael.9403:

Thanks for the answer. I meant the nodes on the map, and being new to LS3, didn’t know what to expect, since either answer exists in other parts of the game.

The Bloodstone Crystal wiki notes indicate those nodes cap at 35 per day per account, which is about 1.2 characters worth. Do you know if there is such a limit on petrified wood? Perhaps the bloodstone limit doesn’t exist any more? I’ll know in a few more days.

My intent is to get lesser capable 80’s into a gathering routine, leading to Ascended items that I can’t craft. If the port wouldn’t work w/o qualifying via the story quests, or I could only gather nodes once per account, it would be moot.

Petrified Wood also has a limit but I am not sure what the number is. You know you have hit the limit for an area if you find already used up stumps on characters that haven’t done any gathering in the area yet.

The suggested change will break existing use of certain sigils. For example to guarantee a crit with a particular skill using Sigil of Intelligence. Having sigil of energy being wasted while when you don’t need it would also be bad.

Fifth.8169:

I do not want to purchase these runes from the TP and feed hoarders my earned gold, while they kick back/relax and watch the thousands of gold roll into their account wallet.

You can make them yourself using your huge piles of mystic coins.

Fifth.8169:

Im guessing your one such hoarder. 30,000 units of said item are bought within the first 24 hours of wintersday release leaving barely 200 units for sale. Items ARE HOARDED until buy orders reach an all time high. At this point HOARDER begins to slowly release unit of said item back into the marker for huge profit.

HOARDER effectively flips market securing thousands of gold for themselves. Item is no longer farmable as a result of it not dropping from mobs and its components mystic coins is not farmable. HOARDER effectively capitalizes on market.

Stop trying to make me sound like the bad person when gold thirsty people (possible you) are making this game toxic.

That is not a hoarder. Hoarders would never sell any of their stuff.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

There’s one exception: there is a bug affecting necros, where stats on the “implied” weapon do not get applied while in Shroud (and going into shroud otherwise counts as a weapon swap).

So necros should always slot a main-hand weapon, while others (as hornswaggle indicates) can use the cost-saving option of using the same main-hand for both sets.

Also rangers when using Celestial Avatar. Probably anyone picking up an environmental weapon such as Ice Bows as well.

altermaven.7385:

I can vouch for shroud not activating “on swap” sigils for the purpose that being ‘in shroud’ is an entirely different mechanic than a simple weapon swap.

That being said here’s what does count as criteria for “on swap”:

>For two-set profs (all but elementalist and engineer), you need at least one thing in your off to swap to, e.g. your mesmer with sword/shield on main, but an off-hand focus on swap. That counts for criteria.

>For elementalist, switching attunements counts as criteria. Mind the cooldown.

>For engineer… does this count when switching to a kit? Needs validation.

Engi kits and elementalist attunement counting as swap was added in the same patch.

Picking up environmental objects also count.

Even more annoying is that picking up eggs near the Circus heart in Ember Bay also counts as weapon swap. -_-

Hyper Cutter.9376:

I’ll never understand people who think making a map easier to get around on (ie, by putting enough waypoints in to actually be useful) is a bad thing.

The ones that aren’t making a stealth argument for mounts or some other archaic feature, anyway.

Some people might be into taking long walks with strangers …

You could use team chat …

The main benefits of these backpacks is that they are one of the few ways to obtain certain stats.

onevstheworld.2419:

Yes, you can use it straight away.

It comes with a single infusion slot by default… you only need the fractal mats if you want to infuse it to add a 2nd slot.

There isn’t even a reason to infuse anymore for most backpacks besides Mawdrey since there is a relatively small difference between the cost of infusing a backpack and getting higher agony infusions.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Yeah, I just tried it again, and it somehow works now. Weird. I wonder what the difference between today and two/three days ago is.

Maybe the patch that was 24 hours ago.

At least you can get past the entrance with gliding. Forgot about those other two gears. =_=

I just tried it on two characters that completed the instance before any of the bugfixes or brazier got added and on one that just completed the instance today. It worked on all of them.

but it’s cold in the bitterfrost frontier …

If you are after berries there is no need to do the story to access the map. Only Bloodstone Fen and Ember Bay requires doing the story to access it.

The annoying or convenient thing about these(depending on how you look at it) is that the majority of the time spent gaining access is standing around waiting for NPCs to repeat the same dialog for the millionth time. Eir’s Memorial is probably the biggest offender. That should have been made into a separate thing like the LS2 recap so that it be skipped entirely.

I am told you can just coompletely ignore that mechanic and burn it down with enough damage as well. I have yet to try with any character that has enough damage though. I still need at least one stun.

Astralporing.1957:

Black Iris Flowers.3418:

You haven’t really said what you DO like- is it flat maps? I know the verticality bothers some people, but as mentioned earlier Ember Bay and Bitterfrost Frontier are pretty flat. You don’t need the masteries to progress there.

Yeah, both of them are better, but they still suffer from the same flaw – not enough waypoints. Especially BfF – it’s really bad in that regard.

I don’t want devs to think out new creative ways to get around map, when i was perfectly fine with old ones.

They are fine in Bloodstone Fen and Ember Bay. Bloodstone has the gliding skills and Ember Bay has the Thermal Tubes. Bitterfrost Frontier was apparently made by a clueless intern ….

Astralporing.1957:

You can consider the design a flawed one, when the basic, and simple way to do it is to find a workaround.
Honestly, it seems that the daily was designed for the npc skritt snowball fighters, and Anet devs forgot to remove it when they took them out.

There are plenty of other skritts all over Tyria.

Since they all have the same 9s CD having fewer weapons doesn’t provide any sort of benefit. On the other hand some builds do benefit from it more than others.

Underdark.3726:

Scribing is a joke. I’ve started not so long ago and just hit lvl 375. I’m not sure I will ever get to 400. Is just not worth the gold. I mean a hedge that will probably be smaller that my asura cost 12g in mats.
Anet advertise scribe as a “fun group activity”. It is not fun and most of all is not a group activity.
I usually don’t rant about anything in gw2 but this is just too much.

Those hedges used to cost several hundred gold -_-

They probably meant “characters” rather than “players”. So repeating it for the achievement wouldn’t take as long.

Patch in a few minutes so that will be a great time to go do this …

Stitch.1794:

I think they’re also available from the final chest in the PvP and WvW reward tracks.

That one lets you choose both the mini and the tonic.

Rauderi.8706:

Odin the exiled.5764:

I do wish they’d just add skritt snowball fighters in Divinty’s though, we used to have them in LA when the event was there i believe.

We did! That was how I used to finish that daily in previous years. Though kudos to the folks finding skritt around Tyria to bring them some Wintersday cheer!

Really though, the main problem when trying to get Skritt Hit during the dolyak runs is that people just run up and kick the skritt instead of throwing snowballs. It makes for two competing goals/designs that don’t work for the event or the achievement.

Even if people do not kick the skritts there is still the problem of people standing behind you also attempting to do the daily …

It is much simpler to go and hit the other skritts around in Tyria.

DominiFactum.7103:

I hit the skritt at Arcallion Waypoint in Harathi Hinterlands without any trouble. I’m just an average GW2 player so no special skills needed. Here’s how I did it:

First, make sure ‘Snap Ground Target to Current Target’ in Options is not checked. This is important! You can not get a hit with it checked.

Then using “Skritt Waypoint Owner Krumpkitt” as the target, aim the snowball to hit the spokes of the wheel behind the skritt. I got 10 in a row doing it that way.

or just aim without a target selected. Still need to aim slightly behind the skritt so that the snowball goes through it rather than on it.

Rukia.9860:

It is so hard to determine what mechanic is bugged or not in this fight because there definitely were bugs, but now I don’t know. The bubble that braham makes never once worked for me, so I was forced to use the gliding and the updraft refused to work on the 2nd or 3rd phase.

I’ve ran into the problem where the updrafts never works on the third phase. They have worked more times than they have failed but if you encounter the fails on your first run it may not be obvious that there is a bug going on. The updrafts are also nearly fully transparent with a flashing background. Not the best combo for visibility especially when the updraft/sprouts are also shiny.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

There’s other bugs that still need to be fixed, like the third miniboss (all of them can do it, but Caithe/Braham/Canach has perma-stability so the rift can’t pull them) becoming agressive again while still being invincible if you take to long to channel the rift (because, say, one of those bullet hell orbs was right by it and kept hitting you), or that wind barrier thing Mordremoth creates being able to drag you out of the air if it’s still going when a gliding phase starts.

Ran into that just the other day but luckily Caithe eventually got pulled in somehow.

Also make sure your computer has a correctly set clock and calendar.

They are in the same section as the rest of the dailies

Electro.4173:

The recipes for all the other HoT-stat gear are just fine. Only Commander’s has the problem of being excessively overpriced. Its not really a problem of being account bound, as all the others are as well and they’re fine. The bigger problem is that the Commander’s recipes seem much rarer than the others, probably since they only come from Dragon’s Stand chests, which are smaller in number than all the other HoT zone chests and basically require you to beat an hour-long meta to get in decent numbers.

All that said, if jewels are your main issue then look into the Bloodstone Fen / Ember Bay / Bitterfrost Frontier ascended items. You can pick Commander’s stats from those.

The commander’s recipe sheets have dropped a lot in price.

I just finished this using a Grouchy Skritt in Ember Bay.

The main problem I see with this is that now that it is so easy to acquire an unbreakable bell(this has been the case since last year) this section seems completely pointless. Anyone who wants to play whatever they want can just get an unbreakable bell for 57c and play it forever without having to bother with joining any instances.

There is a small area where the marker is located. The door is a bit to the right of the main entrance into Amber.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Khisanth.2948:

Wasn’t it always bad to convert the karma boosters anyway? Since it required two in the conversion but AFAIK you didn’t get back the equivalent of 2 when you selected it from the Enchanted version.

Yes, it was always bad to convert the karma boosters (which is why I never did). But it was always good to spend 10 silver to convert the others so you could save on inventory and choose later.

Because of that, I spent the karma boosters more quickly than I might have done, knowing that I had a ton of generic boosters I could use later — that’s what ANet took away: the Strategic Karma Booster Reserve.

Still, as it turns out, if you have HoT, it’s even easier to gain karma now.

Yeah. I was pretty annoyed by the loss of my ’Strategic Karma Booster Reserve." I had been using my karma boosters with the knowledge I had a large amount of boosters I could convert over. However with the introduction of karma food, the candy cane that can be used right before expecting getting karma and guild karma boosts that can be used freely and continuously as well as the karma dropped from mobs, to me it means that the loss of the karma booster is more than offset by new means of boosting karma gain.

Those karma drops have made me stop caring about acquiring karma altogether.

Wasn’t it always bad to convert the karma boosters anyway? Since it required two in the conversion but AFAIK you didn’t get back the equivalent of 2 when you selected it from the Enchanted version.

Behellagh.1468:

They were high during the last year due to the desire to get the shoulder piece which requires 10K of the wintersday drinks, which dropped 80% of the time. I would imagine there will be fewer people working toward that over the next year.

There is also the Casks that gives 10 points each. Even for people working on it that reduces the demand a bit. On the other hand even with that help at the current rate it will still take me another decade to complete.

Heh … I’ve actually done this once or twice by randomly showing up on Bloodtide Coast for other reasons

Lumpy.8760:

the fact that it requires a dedicated guild to instruct pugs on a daily basis like some amusement park tour guide is just awful

That part is somewhat interesting. Either there is a constant influx of new people trying this event or there is a large group of people who apparently never learn.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Well, is there anywhere in-game where targeting is disabled? I can’t think of any such place. It might not be that simple to just have it not work for a handful of instances (especially when the instances are part of the overall pvp system). I do agree that it’s annoying when the targeting trolls decide to constantly pop a target on you (or anyone).

but everyone seems to be on a separate team and you normally can’t see the target of the opposing team so that part is still a bit odd

Jasiri.9807:

1. Unbalanced teams when you hop into a match, still persists during next match.
2. Complete match blowouts (17-500)
3. Your team carrying the objective to the opposing team.

No thanks, this activity can leave when Wintersday is over with.

I can see 3 happening if it is the daily … just getting it over with.

Zentrility.9064:

Khisanth.2948:

Well do you want to wait 6 or 7 months? How many do you have? You could potentially gain an additional 10g per stack. Do you have the space to spare for that long?

So they are worth more later?

Could be. I am just opening all of mine as I get them.

Well do you want to wait 6 or 7 months? How many do you have? You could potentially gain an additional 10g per stack. Do you have the space to spare for that long?

Having the trait version and regular version differ isn’t all that unusual. Whether or not that is intentional is a different matter.

The number of boons converted is easily seen on
https://api.guildwars2.com/v2/skills/10701
https://api.guildwars2.com/v2/traits/903

which does confirm the split.

Why are you posting a suggestion in the bug forum?

I think that is the least of their problems. Especially Searing Fissure.

Honest John.4673:

Khisanth.2948:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Honest John.4673:

I have the feeling Evan has a lot of job security right about now. This is a good thing, he’s like the anti-Gaile Gray

Hey! Wait a minute — what does that even mean!?

~engages in rage typing~

It means you didn’t just write some very badly mangled code that nobody else in the company could decipher. At least that is the typical meaning of “job security” that I’ve encountered …

No it just means we’re free to have a lively back and forth discussion without worrying we’re gonna offend each other. One with transparency that fosters trust instead of turning our nose-in-the air and squelching discussion that isn’t carebear and makes everyone feel special. Basically, never seen a dev throw so many sick burns and get away with it

Heh … I guess I am a bit spoiled by GGG.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Khisanth.2948:

Unbound Magic? That sounds like you salvaged something else.

You have to salvage Finite Result not just someone you applied the skin to.

I tried to salvage someone before; they were not pleased.

(Sorry couldn’t resist such a juicy typo.)

Next time use some sedatives first …

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Khisanth.2948:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Repping is needed for specific activities, such as getting credit for guild missions or claiming in WvW. Otherwise, how can the game award both you and your guild for doing activities. If your friend refused to rep during times that it was important to the guild to do so, then depending on the guild they may want non reppers to leave. If it was a casual PvE guild with this attitude though, she is better off finding another guild.

While that is true it only requires one person per guild.

Don’t you have to rep the guild to get personal credit for doing guild missions or your guild gets credit if you claim a WvW structure? (not sure about WvW as I don’t play that part of the game).

Hmm depends on the mission and other stuff. I did forget about WvW and PvP missions which does require a minimum of 3 to get credit for the missions. Mostly because I’ve avoided them because they require a minimum of 3 …

Unbound Magic? That sounds like you salvaged something else.

You have to salvage Finite Result not just someone you applied the skin to.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Honest John.4673:

I have the feeling Evan has a lot of job security right about now. This is a good thing, he’s like the anti-Gaile Gray

Hey! Wait a minute — what does that even mean!?

~engages in rage typing~

It means you didn’t just write some very badly mangled code that nobody else in the company could decipher. At least that is the typical meaning of “job security” that I’ve encountered …

Spirit Shards drop as random loot for lv80 characters. They are also dropped in the HoT cargo/chests/caches. They are also drop from champ bags.

HoT already has maps like Gendarran Fields. Right down to having event(s) with poorly designed fight mechanics!