Guild Wars 2

Well the reason is pretty simple. Legendaries provide ascended stats. Ascended giver’s doesn’t exist. That leads to the very logical conclusion of no giver’s on legendaries.

The map completion information is only on the main map screen from pressing M or whatever key you set it to. If you are near a heart then information about it would be displayed in the top right as well.

Nocturnal Lunacy.8563:

It has changed but that rune is a waste. Life steal in this game is pretty weak. I’ve tried multiple upon multiple different builds on the one class that has as its core life steal, necro, and as of yet every build is very very weak.
If life steal were changed to take more life like maybe 50 at a time instead of the base 36 (depending on skill used) then life steal would be useful. So just raise the life steal about 10-15% more than what it is and it would be useful.

You are confusing the Vampiric trait with the life steal mechanic. For example the base lifesteal damage from the #2, #4, and Sigil of Leeching is 975. Leeching bolts have a base 198 damage/170 healing.

AliamRationem.5172:

So, I just don’t have an SSD and my load times are too high to play the AB multi-map mini-game. I was just wondering if we could maybe just multiply the loot rewards on the Tarir Assault by 10 and call it a day? I mean it doesn’t hurt the economy or anything and everyone’s doing it! Let’s make it official! Whattya say?

Don’t abuse hyperbole if you want anyone to take you seriously.

Zeivu.3615:

Wow, I thought most people hated that skin….

They don’t hate the skin. They hate the fact that it shows through the back of your head.

Reverielle.3972:

onevstheworld.2419:

Reverielle.3972:

I’ve found the biggest problem with it is that players don’t know that this is one fight that’s basically impossible to best if you don’t break it’s defiance bar. Lots of new players to Heart of Thorns haven’t realised the importance of defiance bar breaking, but hopefully they will with time.

You actually CAN kill it without breaking it’s breakbar… I would not have believed it if I didn’t see it myself. I joined that particular fight 2-3 minutes late, so it may have been broken earlier in the fight, but while I was there we didn’t break a single bar and we killed it with less than a minute remaining. There were about 20-25 players.

One thing I did notice with that encounter was there were very few downed players; so everyone was doing a much better job at staying alive, the dead were WPing, and we were able to sustain our DPS.

TLDR; Yes, breaking the bar makes the kill quicker and with more margin of error, but if you adhere to good combat habits, it’s still possible.

Really? I’m not sure, I’m guessing it might have been broken before you go there like you suggested. Everyone’s always said it’s impossible in map, and I’ve believed such too from my experience. Multiple times I’ve seen attempts not get anywhere near beating it if it isn’t broken at least once. But if you break it once, the amount of bonus damage you do to it in those stunned seconds is amazing, almost akin to those Thornhearts in Dragon’s Stand.

Can anyone else attest to this; that it can be beaten if you don’t break it’s bar?

It could probably be easily done if you bring a bunch of necros and pull in some vampires for bouncing epidemic. :P

On the other hand if you can have enough coordination for that then doing it the “normal” way shouldn’t be much of an issue either.

Which mushroom are you killing? Apparently the Bloodstone Fen one doesn’t drop the spores at all.

That would also break one of the guild trek locations.

Sarrs.4831:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Yes, actually that would be useful. This reminds me of that revenant trait that increases your crit chance dramatically during combat – I was fighting with the hero panel open so I could see the crit chance changing, but having it as a buff counter would have made that so much easier.

This seems like a trait that should have a specific buff counter to help you keep track of what your crit rate is.

It would be constantly changing …

TokyoGhost.6492:

yeah, I politely contacted support in hope I get replacement. That was worst mistake in my life. Names of materials that will be used to craft their respective weapons should be coloured imo.

How would the colors help if you aren’t reading them?

The game also provides a way to avoid crafting the wrong components provided you also selected the correct item to craft …

Gehenna.3625:

Well I do remember them but really, there’s a clock in the UI so if you need to be reminded to watch the clock, then set an alarm on your mobile phone or something.

I think a lot of people might actually find it annoying.

or one of these

Supercluster.7159:

From the WIKI in regards to the Copper-Fed-salvage-o-Matic:

Given the gold-gem exchange rate and saving 0.52 Copper coin on each salvage, you would have to salvage approximately 3 million items before it becomes cheaper than using Basic Salvage Kits.

All the unlimited stuff is more about convenience than actual gains. Although if they continue with the no merchant map like Bloodstone Fen that becomes a bit of a different issue …

Hopefully ANet is not going down the path of “typical F2P game BS”.

hornswroggle.8023:

In general GW2 does not support add-ons or plugins. (there are grey-zone exceptions)

It may help to set your “HUD-Scaling” to small. This will make your HUD smaller the higher your resolution is. I don’t know for sure, but that may help shrink those numbers.

“Hit indicators” won’t do anything for you. Hit indicators are the small flash effects on your target, when you hit something with a weapon.

OP is referring to the damage numbers as indicated in the picture. That would actually be a great option since you can always turn on the combat log if you really wanted to see the number anyway.

That is the skin from the Orr karma vendors. I’ve been using that set(minus the hat) on my elementalist for around 3.5 years. Never had that issue …

Hmm on the other hand how many sigils would actually require this? None of the on swap needs it except maybe for an engineer and elementalist since the weapon swap timer has that covered. Even if it was there, what are you going to do? Just sit there waiting for the cooldown even though you need skills from the other weapon set/kit/attunement?

The on hit/on crit sigils are unpredictable and uncontrollable so what purpose would it serve for those?

That seems to eliminate all the sigils with cooldowns.

Ignigknawt.7869:

They are literally a nuisance to yourself and others. Get rid of them.

I like to keep them on me … then leave when the Executioner shows up to see who is foolish enough to waste their time with it.

The last thing GW2 needs is more visual clutter. Having a chronomancer or dragonhunter in your party is bad enough already. -_-

Lemuria.3195:

They count towards map completion. It gives you more reason to explore the area outside of just passing through, and encourages players to gather in certain areas to complete them.

If you need the extra prodding from a heart to go explore did you really want to explore in the first place? If someone wants to explore why does there need to be an additional excuse?

Areas with hearts are often hotzones of activity for players.

Only initially. Once most people are done then it becomes a dead zone unless there are other things happening around it … like events.

Tyloric.7520:

I already have trouble with player buffs stretching up behind my mini map. I’m not opposed to this, but it might just be one more thing to clutter the UI.

Especially problematic on a Dragonhunter …

It probably consumes 1 mark from one person in the area when it spawns.

Hearts were added as training wheels for the event system. Anyone who has gotten to HoT should theoretically have learned all they need about that system already.

There is also the WvW track so you can work on two at once.

Crafting in general isn’t all that great for generating gold although it can help generate a steady couple extra gold per day.

Make sure you are looking at the page for the correct book.

Mine goes to firefox. Always have.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Surly the mail carrier should have been an achievement reward, and the back pack in the birthday gift, just saying.

Could have been a “pick one but unlocks all” thing as well.

Carrion.8249:

It’s been awhile since I leveled any crafting but I’m pretty sure you can’t use/craft ascended materials until 500.

All the timegated stuff are craftable at 450.

Donari.5237:

I’m curious if people who don’t have any four year old alts but did make their account on day one of head start have gotten this backpack choice?

The achievement is triggered by opening the 4th birthday gift. If you don’t get the achievement then you don’t get the backpack.

Wiki list lv450 armorsmith, tailor and leatherworker. Page unchanged since November 2015 …

Danikat.8537:

(A quick note on point 2: On my main account where I’m in 5 guilds I can talk to any of them, even if I’m not representing the guild I’m talking to. But on my free account if I stand down from the 1 guild I’m in I cannot use guild chat – it tells me I’m not in a guild. So it looks like while you don’t need to be representing the guild you’re talking to you do have to be representing a guild.)

You don’t need to be representing any guild to use guild chat but if you turn off all rep you need to use /g(1-5) again to be able to chat because prior to that you were in the /g channel which means “currently represented guild”.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Was it!? Well, there you go. And this time, we got a choice. Likely, then, the Devs won’t have to come up with any new rewards for the Achievement for the next 4 years. Brings to mind other yearly reward choices from the franchise.

I’m sure, given time, the CS Team will exchange rewards for those unhappy with their choice.

Good luck.

Hmm but they are apparently unable to remove skin unlocks so it would not be an exchange …

Dravyn.4671:

Randulf.7614:

Dravyn.4671:

Wait, the birthday thing is character age and not account age?

Yes. Since GW1 it has always been based on each character. So if you delete your first toon, that can set you back

Sucks for me I guess…i’ve been here since launch but I don’t have any characters that old due to a lot of rerolling.

This topic also comes up every year. It took you 4 years to notice? O_o

Raid drops agony infusions? O_o

Ohoni.6057:

What are you doing in terms of compensation for this change? I mean, will dailies that were cleared during this period be automatically cleared, or will we just miss out on that daily progression entirely? Will we get our loot compensated somehow? I mean, usually when a game takes things away from players that they have earned, they give something back as fair compensation.

It is not a good idea to set up that sort of precedent but IF they are going to do that my vote is for https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Paper-Bag_Helm_4-Pack

Entenkommando.5208:

Oh god how much I wish I had insight to your code to realize how it is even possible to randomly create a bug like this.

It usually starts with something that was a great idea when designing something years ago …

phys.7689:

many people enjoy playing at max stats, the same reason people hack, bought game genie, and buy accounts.

basically you win by achieving all endgame goals easily.
may seem pointless to me, but many people prefer to buy these type of things, than to play/grind/wait for them.

this does diminish the percieved value of some goals, but its increasingly common

Game genies and hacks also makes it possible to do the impossible like walking through walls and having infinite everything … that is very different from having max stats.

Then there are the guild weapons that are ingredients for the HoT guild weapons.

On the other hand keeping these soulbound makes it more “fair” since the situation would be equally bad for everyone instead of being worse for people who have already destroyed the original item because they just wanted to unlock the skin.

Someone is probably going to suggest legendary armor but forget the issue with upgrades …

Probably caused by the same thing that caused the soulbind issue.

Hey … that is a nice improvement in communication. Didn’t have to go to Twitter to find out what happened.

In case anyone is planning to get these, they look different depending on the shader setting. Seems to look ugliest on medium shader.

bug with patch but you can still equip it. Seems to be random pieces of equipment.

Djinn.9245:

Not sure what underboob has to do with bladed armor. However I don’t like the current bladed armor – I think it looks cheesey and could be MUCH better. I also don’t have anything against underboob (except that it has nothing to do with armor…)

Someone at ANet probably has a pincushion fetish. Same with the GW1 armors like https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Assassin_armor

Okami.7049:

Wow, thanks a bunch for all the info! I also found something else out (I don’t think you mentioned it) while I was running my tests: Shouts activate Sigil of Leeching. I’m guessing it’s because you’re doing damage without using a weapon, so the system counts it as a ‘swap’ but whatever the reason, it actually helps a bit (“Your Soul Is Min” with Leeching is really effective for a glass cannon like me). I’m probably going to do what you suggested though, which is not having identicals. I found that Sigil of Generosity and Blood on Greatsword works better than Leeching and Blood; since I’m using a Staff second set I figured Sigil of Purity would work better than Leeching (still figuring out the last one that works with my playstyle).

Thanks again for all the info! Not only for me, but for everyone else that comes to this thread. Your effort and time are beyond appreciated my friend!

Shouts do not count as a swap. Are you using Rune of Vampirism?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Reaper's_Hood

Most of the on crit sigils are fine …

Rage is the only one with a ridiculous ICD.

Generosity, Incapacitation, and Nullification simply do not provide very useful effects for PvE. If I needed those effects I want something reliable. They are also not general enough in that only a few situations would require them and sigil swapping is an extremely impractical thing to do.

OriOri.8724:

Svarty.8019:

Here is another one.
Rune of the Daredevil.

Why is it meta? See the first and only question about it on the wiki:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Talk:Superior_Rune_of_the_Daredevil

Is there an ICD on the (6) bonus?

That one is meta because it is overpowered. It needs an ICD on that.

A more likely change would be requiring a successful evade to proc like a bunch of traits.

Ashen.2907:

Thelgar.7214:

However, the general tank MMO meaning is out of context in this particular game, in which the heavy armor characters function more like actual tanks than the tanks in other MMOs.

There is an aggro mechanic in GW2 by which a tougher character may hold aggro.

Not as reliable as in other MMOs, but it is there.

That is only true for some of the enemies.

Oldirtbeard.9834:

Reapers great and all but I’m not sure how much extra healing I offer with the blood trait line, it would also be cool if there were a way to transfer conditions to minions through Death Magic for the whole party as well but I’m not sure that’s possible; still doesn’t have that good ole tank feel though.

…

I’m probably just playing the wrong game.

Since you miss tanking but want to play a healer I think you are probably right about playing the wrong game.

Seems more like we are going more and more into “waiting”. Either get used to it or …

This dead horse should be buried with the rest of the mounts.