Guild Wars 2

RedStar.4218:

PowerCat.5738:

Thanks, RedStar. Can you details the skills you mentionned for Thief and Elementalist? I’m not familiar with them.

For the thief you have Smoke screen (utility skill).

For elementalists you have :
-Magnetic aura (earth staff) but that only works on yourself
-Swirling winds (air focus) which affects everyone in the area but doesn’t reflect projectiles
-Magnetic Wave (earth focus)

And if you go scepter/focus you have a range of spells that can be really useful :
-Phoenix to remove your conditions
-Dust devil to blind those annoying bleed inflicting bandits
-Comet
-Obsidian Flesh

And taking Arcane shield is not a bad idea.

For elementalist there is also Glyph of Storms (utilty) which will lets you blind and bleed the enemy when attuned to earth. There is also a trait for sharing auras but that is obviously not going to be available to a low level character.

For thief there is also Black Power(skill 5 with off hand pistol) which will blind and provide another smoke field for more blind. You can also use Shadow Refuge + Heartseeker/Clusterbomb for more blinds but that might be a bit wasteful.

Elementalists also has some options for applying protection to themselves and/or other people. 33% damage reduction is not something to ignore if you think the enemy is doing too much damage.

Both elementalist and thieves have a ways to apply Weakness as well which will further reduce incoming damage.

I’ve never really noticed an issue with bleeds in CM(doesn’t it’s not a problem, I’ve just never noticed) but with 10 in Water Magic an elementalist can have Cleansing Wave to remove a condition from everyone around them when attuning to water. This will also apply Soothing Mist.

None of these things are actually specific to CM.

DaShi.1368:

Any chance of Karka as a future playable race?

If anyone thought doing JPs with a big Norn/Charr was bad …

SirDrygan.1823:

I don’t get it. Why everything target only players? It is a battle after all. NPC or not, they should get hit by the AOE. If not, why bother putting the NPC into battle? This is one mechanics of this game that I don’t get to understand. Everything will “Home-in” on the players. So, even if there are 10 NPCs in that battle, the attack will only affect the player(s), why give immunity to the NPCs?

In an actual battle, a bomb dropped into a crowd will kill everyone or damaged some standing near it….

The problem with things like the grubs is that the NPCs can be extremely stupid and just stand right next to Lupicus. It WOULD improve things if they got of all those silly NPCs. I have yet to see one serve any purpose besides get in the way, it’s like they are working for the enemies.

I’ve had this happen before with a stack of Medallion. It was back in the guild bank the next day but in my case I was in the process of putting it back into the bank.

DiogoSilva.7089:

Did Colin mean that January’s update will be smaller than normal, or simply that it’ll not be as massive as Feb/ March’s updates? There’s a difference here.

Because all the big updates we’ve been getting monthly should also be “relatively smaller” to whatever big is coming Feb/ March, according to his words, so this month’s “relatively smaller” patch could very well be as big as wintersday/ halloween/ etc.

Well the fact that January achievements aren’t full of ???s should tell you something about the size. Probably smaller than Wintersday and Halloween.

Blackwolfe.5649:

Ive done alot of JP’s now (and if anet would ban for swearing irl I’d be banned for life x5), and so far the only one I never got credit for was the collapsed observatory.

As I mentioned above, for that one you have to go to the location in the picture I linked. It’s a poor choice of location to put the trigger but that is where it is.

Same problem here. It turns out I did in fact have 9 files that needed repairing but that didn’t actually have anything to do with the error. Drivers are up to date. It looks to me like bits of the lighting from the Wintersday decorations are still around.

It looks like you can get credit for the same puzzle again after each rollover. I guess you could just have one character parked at a particular puzzle and log in once a day.

All this talk of conditions and no mentioned of all the stuff that are completely immune to condition damage?

testpig.5018:

Microtransaction.

Use Cash to buy Gems, and use Gems to buy Keys.
Use GOLD to trade for Gems, and use Gems to buy Keys

or keep starting a new toon and deleting, after you finish the first starting zones… they tend to reward a key(or at least they use to)

Still do, got 3 I haven’t used yet but it’s random between Basic Transmutation Stone and the key. Haven’t gotten any other thing yet.

phabby.8945:

Thanks guys for your addd thoughts, I feel that gw1 had some great content that should be added into gw2, don’t get me wrong I love the way the world is set up now running around meeting ppl along the way is just fantastic compared to the closed instance of gw1 world, but unless someone is doing the map completion you are stuck at just doing karma events. try going into cursed shores and doing an out of the way skill point,1) you get your butt hammered along the way there, 2) most of these guys are unkillable without a group.

Would be fun to have the worlds like a dungeon instance kill and clear everything for a said achievement, or the drops are set at a higher level in the loot table, say complete a region receive a precursor if you complete all regions get a Legendary.
This would make something that everyone wants ,made easier to get

Not sure but sounds fun to me

That sounded more like “give me a legendary” …

Humposaurus.5764:

Amen to this. Though it will never happen, simply because it is impossible to code all those descisions into the game. There will always be some sort of predefined paths/ objectives.

Having predefined objectives is fine but that doesn’t mean you must also have predefined paths. We don’t even have to look far for examples. Eye of the North dungeons all had predefined goals with the keys and locks but there were often more than one path to each objective.

flordelyn.1965:

For the life of me, I do not understand why game designers do this:

I have to be level 20-25 in order to gather the materials required to make a level 20 item.
By the time I gather enough materials to make this item I will be level 30 and the item will be worthless to me.

Pretty stupid.

You seem to be doing something wrong. Iron can be used to craft items all the way up to lv35. Iron gathering tools requires level 10. Both the iron ores and the mobs that drop fine crafting materials are available in the level 15-25 zones.

ViciousVyne.2935:

I’m not sure whether this is the right forum to post it in, but it is an issue with the mailservice.

So a couple of weeks ago a good friend of mine bought the game.
I’ve been playing since launch so far, and I thought that I would help him out a bit, by sending him a bit of gold, that I did not need at that time.
Weeks have passed and now that he is level 80 with full exotics he has enough gold gathered to pay me back. But here is the problem :

Everytime he tries to send it to me, he get’s an error saying that it would exceed the value, his account can send. So we tried to send it in small portions, but he still gets that error, and sometimes even the mail gets completely suppressed, because of spam.
From the ~94g I send him he was only able to send 16g back. But we can’t figure out how this works. He gets the mail suppressed even when he did not mail me for a couple of days, and the value that he can send seems to shift around, since one day he could send 2g in one mail, and the other day not even 1 copper.

Does anyone know how all of this works ? Because we can’t seem to find a pattern in it. I would like to have someone from Arenanet reply to this, and by that I don’t mean your standart copy-pasta:“We understand your frustration blablabla…” , because I know why this mechanic is in the game. I just want an answer about how I can get my gold back.

I’ve never encounterd this myself but from other people’s post it seems you can’t send more than what you’ve earned/accumulated yourself. I don’t remember if that was by character or account.

If I was in that situation I would probably try transferring through the guild bank but that is not always an options for obvious reasons. Although I have no idea if there are any limits there either.

Fistful Of Bacon.3046:

glad to see we are getting feedback, and to reiterate, i am 100% sure that i did not receive credit for “Branded Mine” and “Collapsed Observatory,” as I started the day with 0/10 explorations, and had never even been to the zones that contained those puzzles, so it would not have been possible for me to have gotten credit without knowing.

I would like to add that I understood that we only needed to find the puzzles, and not run them for the monthly, and that I only ran through the entire puzzle to be sure there was not some glitch that didn’t count a puzzle until it was finished, but did not receive credit afterwards either

I tried it myself after reading your post. Sure enough taking the direct entrance it failed to give me credit for it. Then I checked the wiki, found complaints in the discussion tab about the complicated instructions. It turns out that the complicated instructions is exactly what you need to follow in order to get credit for the Collapsed Observatory.

The position where you see the person standing in this picture is more or less where you need to go to get credit for Collapsed Observatory.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/b/b7/The_Collapsed_Observatory_solution_step_2.jpg

I think for this one they should move the trigger point to where the second ooze is located.

I just made one. Are you sure you are not filtering it out?

Zathora.3970:

I think there should be a setting in the option to toggle between Stow and appear on damage and just stow, i would really like my pet to stay stowed some times

An alternative would be to make it so that if the pet is set to Avoid Combat and stowed then it should not be automatically activated when you take damage.

It works for everything besides Meteor Shower. Meteor Shower is also the only skill out of the bunch that does not have a Radius listed. It has a Damage Radius and a Storm Radius instead.

In the attachment, the left is without Blasting Staff and the right is with Blasting Staff, both are for Lava Font.

CHOAM.7852:

I wouldn’t even call the tooltip broken, it is quite literally 30% faster recharge rate instead of 30% reduction in cooldown.

Also, mathematically, your equations should just be {30, 60, 90}/1.3 without all those extra 100’s floating around, lol

No the tooltips are broken. They always display 30/60/90 which is not the correct values when you have 30 points in that trait line.

The 100s floating around is just from copy and pasting from what I was doing. :P

I just checked in Heart of the Mist, it’s working fine. The thing that is broken is the tooltip. Your calculation is also a bit off.

The actual times you’ll end up with are
100 / ( 100 / 30 * 1.3 ) = 23
100 / ( 100 / 60 * 1.3 ) = 46
100 / ( 100 / 90 * 1.3 ) = 69

If you enable “Show Skill Recharge” those are exactly the values that are displayed after using each virture.

BakaOniiChan.9564:

Gallian.7630:

Maybe ANet needs to think of incentives to “convince” skippers to not skip. That, or “force” everyone to fight specific mob groups within per-established areas of the dungeons, and only open the next path when the group(s) are dead.

They did they made kholer/other bosslike mobs drop 10s lol. IDK what more incentive they can add. They can add some other mobs to these extra silvers and bags of wonderous goods.

If you do not want to skip then tell your party that before the dungeon. Either way it’s sooooo much faster to skip and get your money n tokens.

I am not a fan of skipping but even so they could at least make Bag of Wonderous Goods a guarantee drop rather a 50/50 between that and the crappy amulets.

There are also 3 that can be obtained from doing the personal story.

Yes, the last missing one was the buggy one in Metrica which was fix in the Wintersday patch.

Caedmon.6798:

Khisanth.2948:

What exactly is the point of filing a bug for something that is already being worked on?

They made a change to the culling system,it Obviously is Not working.They need to know this…wasnt that hard to understand right ?

The one they are actually working on hasn’t been deployed yet. -_-

What exactly is the point of filing a bug for something that is already being worked on?

It is even more surprising since this was in GW1 although not at launch.

Coldtart.4785:

I’d say the real problem is that it’s one-sided. Instead of making more concealing gear for females make more sexy gear for males. All those med trenchcoats just look made for it, unbutton a few of them and you get some instant eye candy for the ladies.
;-)

How about medium armor without a trenchcoat for any gender? >_<
It was nice when they added that option in GW1 but it doesn’t mean they needed to go all out in GW2 and put a trenchcoat on everything. At least they’ve mostly gotten over their spike fetish → http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Assassin_armor

Getting back to the actual topic, it would be nice if they can bring back some of the GW1 sets such as these http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/6/64/Mesmer_Monument_armor_f.jpg http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Monk_armor

Overall I think GW1 had a better balance between skimpy and not. It also had better looking armor. They may look inferior to the GW2 armors but that is largely due to polycount. Most GW2 sets can’t seem to decide if they are pants, long skirt or short skirt.

BlargianKing.8645:

I’m not sure if this is a bug or just me not knowing the mechanics, but every time I fire the cannon it goes straight into the forts floor.

Sounds like you didn’t charge the skill. The shots will be fired a different distance depending on how long you charge the skill.

NateDog.1385:

I realize it doesn’t happen very often however that is not correct I have harvested a plant 5 times before and get 2 uses quite a bit, I always have very high harvesting bonus however

That should not factor into the drop rate AT ALL. It literally depends on the day of the week and the server you are on.

Stridix.4260:

So far I have 2 drops like every 3 days.
Yeah this is gonna take forever is someone wants to use it for craft.
Personally I think they got a formula wrong. They must have done (.1)^2 or something and thought they doubled it.

Doubling the rate is pretty much useless anyway. It would still be nowhere near the rate for the other jewelery ingredients. Plants only have 1 use. That means you get 1/3 as many tries. Then there is the fact that most nodes appear on at least 3 full size maps. Southsun Cove is more like a half size map. Within that half size map the Passiflora nodes only appear on around half of that. The nodes themselves also have a much longer respawn timer. After all that you still need 3 times as many per item.

Melankoli.9538:

If you are worried about CoF, you should check out people skipping CM while running through bugged mountains, or jumping through invisible walls in CoE p2 to get to destroyer in p3, or jumping through walls in fotm, or getting pushed on to walls by engineers in fotm etc etc etc, some bosses in fotm dont even hit back if u jump on to a tree, i mean srsly? Anet needs to fix the bugs cus all the dungeons are a big joke, a group with some brains can do any path in any dungeon in under an hour (yes including p4 of arah). But instead they keep adding content which nobody cares about (snowmen building etc) . I understand the need to make money, but it should not prevent anet from doing their job.

That is completely different from what is being discussed. That is just purely exploiting. There is a huge difference between running pass mobs and running through walls.

It doesn’t give anything. It does have unique skins(they are unique as far as I am aware). For weaponsmithing you won’t see the unique skins unless you are crafting rares or exotics. All the Fine and Masterwork weapons look the same, some just darker than others. Of course you could just buy them from the Trading Post instead. However this is where things can be important, it is usually cheaper to craft rares and exotics than to buy but obviously doesn’t include the cost of leveling crafting.

The other thing to consider is whether or not you’ll be going for a Legendary. If you do then you’ll need to 400 on two crafting, which ones depends on the weapon.

Some people also craft rares to salvage for Globs of Ectoplasm but that is basically gambling.

That looks like it is downloading the client/patcher. Do you have something that is interfering with GW2.dat or C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Guild Wars 2\Local.dat?

Narcemus.1348:

And eventually engineers and warriors merge into the profession of Commando and they hunt down elementalists with their helicopters, sniper rifles, and bombs.

Time traveling Commandos, so we are back to chronomancers again.

That looks like one of the item sold by the NPC armorsmith.

The one who does not see seems to be you, https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Colossus-Rumblus-Needs-A-Nerf/first#post1025076

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wintersday pretty active for “irrelevant stuff noone likes”.

That sounds more like you need to submit a support ticket although I doubt they can change it.

Do you know what month it is?

We plan to ship these two features at the end of January.

Even if you could salvage them you probably wouldn’t get more than 1-3 scraps.

In addition to the light armors there are these
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Worn_Rag
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Worn_Garment
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Soiled_Rag
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ragged_Garment

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Salvage_item for the whole list of salvage items and what they salvage into. On the other hand you could just sell the Soiled Rags and Ragged Garments then use the profits to buy the wool. They work out to be the same.

Bartas.4908:

Cheapest salvage kit and white/blue drops should give a decent amount of wool. Also try to “farm” some centaurs/bandits at appropriate level as they tend to drop a lot of bags with materials.

Bags tend to give more fine than common materials.

Kumakichi.2583:

I don’t see any way to change the skipping culture and I take it for what it is. There are 2 reasons I keep doing dungeons and its not about gear at all. First, I enjoy the dungeons I think Anet did a nice job and they look great. Secondly, every now and again I get lucky and group with the nicest people and we tear up the dungeons every bit as fast as the “speed run” crowd. And when I get in great groups like that I wish I could group with them ALL the time because they GET IT. Its not about racing to the end of the game and getting everything then complaining “ok so whats next?”

So what stops you from grouping with those people all the time? Lack of guesting? That seems like a much better thing to fix.

Fixing/adding game features/mechanics is also MUCH easier and simpler to do than trying to fix people’s attitudes.

Looks like it might be the crafted Acolyte shoulders.

That is the same as Signet of Air.

It is not just the confusion although that can be a big part of it. In addition to confusion they also apply weakness which means you it will prolong the fight for you. The weakness also serves as a cover for the confusion, unless you use a skill that removes multiple conditions it won’t go away.

On top of the conditions they apply to you they also buff themselves quite a bit. The protection buff they apply to themselves last at least 2 minutes. They also have Fury for +20% crit and Might to make both their direct damage and the confusion do even more damage.

Jarul.8635:

According to the Dec. 14th patch notes, the drop rate for Passion flowers was improved … from Passion vines. Now all I have to do is find these vines, anybody seen one yet?

The things I did above were done AFTER that patch. One or two days ago.

MissKittin.1657:

Drops out of giant winterday gift boxes

That is for Giver’s Intricate Gossamer Insignia.

Same issue here. It occurs with tailor, armorsmithing and leatherworker.

Went with a friend the other day to harvest every node on the island. He was using mithril picks and I was using black lion picks. After the run we ended up with a combined total of …. ONE passion flower and that one was obtained by me while using nothing but black lion picks. That was approximately 16 harvest for me and 16 for my friend.

The fact that they are around 30% more expensive than ectos should tell you how rare they are.

Assuming you have enough black lion chests and you get 1 Passion Flower per day you’ll make one exotic every 75 days. In that same amount of time you could have made 7 and a half ascended item.

For the foods you can also make trays/pots/feasts/… that can be shared with multiple people but they are not worth it unless you are going to be sharing them with 11+ people. The recipe items for those are also quite expensive.

This seems to be an explorable mode only behavior. A couple of days ago we were doing Arah story mode and the party leader tested this because he knew he wasn’t going to have enough time to finish it with us. In that test the game just made someone else the leader instead. However, yesterday when doing CoF explorable and the party leader logged off to switch character it kicked everyone out.

The story mode behavior seems like the much more reasonable solution. If the leader disbands the party then it should be treated the same as the leader logging off.