Guild Wars 2

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

So, just the opposite of what the OP states; that crafting is being removed from the game. I’m still confused about the Ancestral armor part. OP states that Ancestral armor can’t be crafted, and is a new addition to the game. I thought it might be Cultural armor, but that’s been here since release. And Ascended armor is all about crafting and/or drops, but crafting for a guaranteed piece.

With the addition of Ancestral armor and weapons the direction for equipment progression has become more confusing. Ancestral armor and weapons is not obtainable by random drop or crafting, as I know it, so it seems that the development of Guild Wars 2 seems to be developing towards removing crafting from a game.

Maybe the OP got so confused by the choices that they started writing about a different game in the middle of a post? :P

The harpoon gun scenario seems a lot more likely …

Same issue with staff and trident and occasionally scepter due to the icons.

Edit: After checking my wardrobe I remember I ran into something similarish when I got Flamebelcher. It looks like a rifle and the name is not something you would expect on a harpoon gun.

HazyDaisy.4107:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Owl's_Abattoir

Check out the events section. If you click on each one, it says Upon success / Upon failure this event happens.

I forget if it was friend of the owls or the other achievement for Nevermore in this area, but there was one event that never started because all the others succeeded and something had to fail to get what I was hunting for.

Anyway, of the 2 achievements gained in that area, 1 took me over 4 hours to get, but the one I had to wait the longest for was the one that never happened because all the others succeeded. I ended up luring Jormags Minion close to the WP (Into the owl circle) and got the achievement. Jormags Minion always happened, but wasn’t the event stated for that particular Nevermore Achievement.

If you do it this way, ask whoever is around to not kill the minion quickly, let them get close to the WP, they’ll die really quickly after that, but if they get close enough to endanger the owls, you should get credit for the achievement.

They changed that a bit. You can just do the beast of jormag event twice to get both items for the collection. You don’t need to care about the one that needs to fail.

You shouldn’t need those bonfires anymore but you will need to light the first one then all the ones around the ice elemental.

Drops are also extremely unreliable for acquiring gear and dungeons do no provide full stat coverage along with other issues.

Those things are not in competition with each other. It’s all part of the “get it however you want” thing even if they haven’t really embraced that anymore.

Meh … that HP sucks but it’s like it is unique in that respect. GW2 is just not the game to play if you want well designed fights.

They also become bound if you open the container …

That one was annoying. I parked a character there and swapped over between doing stuff on other characters …

Electro.4173:

I’d say Bloodstone Fen is probably your best option. Events are the best source of experience, and Bloodstone Fen has basically non-stop events of some sort (rifts and the Bloodstone Champ are on a constant cycle, as are the White Mantle events on the ground, Hablion is pretty frequent, and then there’s the Jades and Ghost champ events which are less frequent but provide a chain of 4-5 events in a row). Plus, you can buy permanent experience boost upgrades from the Unbound Magic vendor that work while you’re in the zone.

The map bonus in BF also gives additional exp(it also has other stuff like unbound magic). You get the map bonus item roughly once every 2 events.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Berserker's_Ebb the sword is already in the game

I want a GS that is not a giant slab …

The large and normal ones do not seem like they differ enough to care.

In the store now for 350 gems. 4 days remaining.

Amaimon.7823:

I see, your settings are set to ‘snap at ground target’
That means that the mouse is constantly providing the marker, and when using the skill, it’s instantly cast to that location. Go to your settings and turn off Snap Ground Target.
This is a setting for people who are accustomed to the size/positioning of the targetring and can do without

That is not what snap ground target does. It just centers ground target skills on your target if it is within range.

The setting you are talking about is “Ground Target:” set to Instant.

Vapor blade is narrow and it can have problems when bumping into debris on the ground.

Guardian also has https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Permeating_Wrath to help with potentially tagging more mobs.

You could also add in sigil of blight/fire/torment but it is probably not worth it unless you already happen to have a weapon that have these upgrades in them.

gashen.3874:

I have just completed this ridiculous task, I found all 5 sensors in 20 minutes, so well in the time limit. then nothing, no points,no reward NOTHING. is this bugged

You need to do it in all 5 maps for the achievement …

Once you figure out how it works it is also very easy so I don’t see anything ridiculous about it. Just a bit of waypointing cost maybe.

That is a bit odd … he shouldn’t even be trying to get into the Demagogue’s area.

Hmm I had the opposite problem. There is no platinum dye in the game … luckily white works well enough for the bunny ears.

Mount Maelstrom should actually be pretty actively cycled with 2 world bosses and also current events stuff active there.

You can also press M then left click on the commander icon to join.

Do you need that achievement or just the JP? If just the JP you can just do the current event stuff with the rifts. One of the rifts teleports you right to the diving goggles on top of that.

IndigoSundown.5419:

At the end of the day, MMO pay-styles vary greatly depending on player choices. The continuum ranges from “drop-in for a short time when you feel like it” to “play for many hours every day.” For reasons related to their profit models, developers provide things to keep the players at the “many hours” end of the continuum busy.

Problems crop up when players at the “drop-in” end of the continuum want the rewards put in for the players at the “many hours” end. Players who might otherwise recognize that “obsessive content play X” is not aimed at me cannot get past the desire for virtual prize Y. Unfortunately, the virtual prizes are what gives the game longevity. They aren’t going away, and neither is this issue.

Actually I feel that these daily purchases makes dropping in much easier.

When Ember Bay first came out I would do everything on 3 characters. Then it dropped to just 4 hearts and some of the bosses then it was 4 hearts on one character and now it has dropped to nothing on any character. I have stopped partly because I know I can get 200+ petrified wood a day if it ever came to that(the chance of this is extremely low) so at worst I would need 2 days or a weekend to get everything I needed.

I don’t think cakes full of thorns would sell very well.

The PvP and WvW reward tracks also provides a fairly large amount of them.

OGDeadHead.8326:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

OGDeadHead.8326:

So, can we conclude then that the game old “don’t bring more toughness than the ‘tank’” isn’t valid anymore (for aggro reasons that is, since mobs in this game doesn’t care for whoever thinks of themselves as ‘the tank’)?

That was never 100% valid in this game. Bosses, especially new ones, have always used an AI to decide on the target. It could be any of the following:

• First to damage or most recent to damage
• Lowest health
• Highest toughness.
• Nearest target or farthest target.
• Doing the most damage.

And quite possibly a mix or none of the above as well?

I agree, yet you often hear “don’t bring more toughness than the ‘tank’” every now and then. I think this ‘myth’ is busted.
Whether it’s optimal to run with high toughness if you’re not ‘tanking’ (lol) is another question completly, but imho it’s not a argument for breaking aggro from the tank, since the mechanics in this game simply doesn’t work that way.

I think I’ve yet to see mobs stand still and only hammer away on the wanna-be tank in this game…

Uh yes and no. The only place where “bring a tank” is relevant are raids and bosses there DO use that specific rule.

Danikat.8537:

Some enemies create the illusion of doing that. I was joking in the Labyrinth that someone needs to teach the gargoyles to stack because it’s annoying that they come out the door and go in all directions, then realised that’s actually much more sensible than standing in a stack of AoE’s. But I agree it would be nice to see some of them actually reacting sensibly to what players do.

They should be dead before they have a chance to move apart. :P

And without actual AI players can learn and adapt much faster than the enemies. If one is programmed to move out of AoE players will just stop using them, if it moves around a lot they’ll immobalise it and so on and it becomes little more than another ‘gimmick’ of that particular fight.

Player skill balance would also need to be very different for that type of situation. Mobs did move out of AoEs during one of the first beta weekends. That didn’t end well. Constantly running mobs would also make melee characters very annoying to play.

The wizard was pretty annoying but they’ve also changed it so that killing it during the defense event should work as well but that event will only come up around once an hour or every 2 hours.

Then you should have mentioned that.

Never leave out any unusual occurrences in a bug report. Programmers are neither mind readers nor magicians.

It is not vague. It is just not one size fits all.

Also some skills are only used against targets outside or within a certain range.

You can also use one as an anchor for gathering in case you find an instance with a very nice layout. Probably not as commonly used.

Dungeons and fractals can be rejoined after relogging …

Rising Dusk.2408:

LinseyMurdock.4165:

It would be extremely hard, if not impossible to make those things stack.

Unrelated to the primary thrust of this topic, but couldn’t you add a Mystic Forge recipe to combine 4 25-use BL kits into 1 100-use BL kit, and then 2 100-use BL kits with 2 25-use BL kits to get a 250-use BL kit? That would be pretty legendary if so, because I currently have ~30 BL kits and they’re way too valuable to just waste.

Khisanth.2948:

How about stuff like the PvP reward boxes?

You’re intended to open those, not store them.

and do what with them? It’s not like my characters can start quad wielding weapons.

LinseyMurdock.4165:

Eirian Direstorm.9748:

I agree about blade shards, chak eggs, mysitic forge stones, etc. I also suggest resonating slivers.

I undertsand why you don’t want to put crafted things in. Would it be hard to at least make more things stackable in the bank, like the various salvage kits, harvesting tools, etc.?

Every month I end up getting quite a few BL salvage kits. It’s great to get them for free, but it would be even better if they stacked.

It would be extremely hard, if not impossible to make those things stack.

How about stuff like the PvP reward boxes?

OriOri.8724:

Batelle.1680:

ProtoGunner.4953:

Just increase the kitten population per map. It’s ridiculous how fast they fill up. Compare it to WoW where you have hundreds and thousands of players in the same instance and then look @GW2 where the servers are full with 100-200 people. It’s kitten ridiculous in 2016.

I don’t thing the engine is optimized enough to allow this without completely destroying itself and our computers in the process. Never mind how trivialized the actual events would be with three or four times as many people doing them.

I would rather they deal with TD’s specific issues, as mentioned above. The map itself needs to be more appealing and more rewarding, and the meta needs some leeway so that it’s not so sudden death.

Exactly. TD suffers the same problem that TT does. It requires far more coordination from people who know what they are doing to finish it, and its rewards are on par with or worse than the other metas (or world bosses in TT case). The meta needs to be reworked, and the rewards should probably be increased a bit.

At the very least it should be updated so that a single lane failing is not an immediate failure for the entire meta event.

o_O?

TD doesn’t really need much coordination beyond “my lane is almost done, who needs help?” and maybe making sure Nuhoch has enough people to stomp.

The one lane failing it for everyone thing does render it pointless to even try to do the event unless you are pretty much sure that you will be able to pull it off.

Eirian Direstorm.9748:

I agree about blade shards, chak eggs, mysitic forge stones, etc. I also suggest resonating slivers.

Resonating slivers and the higher tier versions are already in material storage …

Sorin Noroku.5342:

The scribe materials like lumber cores and whatnot would be awesome but there’/ tons and they kinda fall into the whole “inscriptions etc” bit. However, doublouns/petrified/bloodruby/amalgamated gems/extra currency from hot maps like chak eggs/vision crystals

I know there’s more but can’t think right now

Lumber cores are nothing like inscriptions. They basically the same as foxfire clusters/flax flower/freshwater pearl/etc.

Redfeather.6401:

Dang, I remember getting that hat. I have no idea what happened to it either.

Go talk to the Black Lion agent on each character and check if one of them is wearing it.

The weekly cap display is buggy. There has been plenty of times where I’ve looked and it doesn’t add up. Tally up the actual missions completed and check against that.

It is working fine here.

DeanBB.4268:

Originally, didn’t all events show? But then it was too much info, so they reduced it to show only nearby events? While on “daily event” days that would be good, the rest of the time I think it would be too much info.

Yes … although I don’t recall the reason for the change. Might have been at the same time as the NPE.

Edit: You don’t need to be nearby for an event to show but it will only show the nearest which can be annoying with broken events or events with long timers.

OriOri.8724:

It is weird, and unfortunate. It could be though that no one else there knew enough about the meta to be willing to put up a tag and help organize. Not many people do the TD meta compared to the other 3 maps in the first place, and of those that do, very few would be able to effectively lead a group.

or the effort simply isn’t worth the reward

depending on what the person is after it might be better for the meta to fail ASAP

Toolbox.9375:

I didn’t want to cause a quarrel… ;-;

Then you might want to avoid asking questions without real answers.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I guess those pix are very old, then. Probably should be updated. =)

The wiki picture is just showing the effects of downed penalty.

Hmm … the answer changes at the same frequency as balance patches.

You don’t need to redo the story. Running one of the paths will also unlock it.

Coinhead.7591:

I guess I could test the revive times, good point on that, but how exactly would you test the size of downed HP pool?

Get downed. Have someone ress you and have them check the amount of healing per tick from the ress.

Eat the food and repeat previous step.

Each tick from the ress heals for 3% so it is easy to figure out the total.

Isn’t this a few months out of date?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-April-19-2016/6102518

The AFK timer for enchanted armors now will not begin until the “Battle in Tarir” meta-event has started.

Why not just go and test? Speed can easily be checked using a stopwatch. The size of the health pool can be checked by adding the numbers from the combat log. If you have access to a guild arena it can be even easier to check.

Is the event involving Ulfred up/stalled?

I would recommend going to wayfarer’s when svanir shaman is up or about to start. That should give you a higher chance of going into a newly created instance.