Guild Wars 2

If you are buying sprockets for this you are definitely doing it wrong because the Watchwork Mechanisms are cheaper. I can get a stack a day if I try but at current prices it is not worth trying.

There is already a mechanism in place to mitigate flipping. Taxes and listing fee. The item also needs to have a decent balance of supply and demand.

You can also buy the Yassith recipe sheets on the TP. They are relatively cheap compared to the recipe sheets you buy from the NPC for core stats.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Lord of Rings.5371:

I have stacks and stacks of champion bags.

One day, I popped a birthday gift to increase luck and starting to opening them. After about 3 hours in Divinity’s Reach, opening bags, selling and trading items, and checking out one ascended weapon chest, I only opened about 500 bags around 2 stacks with many stacks of champ bags remaining.

So I gave up

Luck doesn’t affect champ bags. It only affects drops, bandit chests in the Silverwastes and containers in PvP (and maybe a couple other things). You might as well open champ bags each day as you get them, unless you like stacking them up and opening them in large numbers.

Also bags from HoT map bonuses which happens to have the same icons as champ bags but their description will tell you if they are affected by MF.

Neural.1824:

Khisanth.2948:

Do they actually give you something useful or just more useless Tyrian mastery exp?

Nope. Just your usual junk loot with a champ box that holds likely more junk loot.

The least Anet could do would be make the experience books an item that can be used in the future. These events are pretty much pointless if you’ve maxed out masteries.

The achievement gives a champ box? O_o

Actually I wouldn’t mind more champ boxes at the moment, need more Piles of Bloodstone Dust. :P

So you are implying other things are difficult? Most world bosses aren’t difficult either. You could also walk into a random AB and open the chests around the pylon. Same with caches in TD.

I think you need to come up with a better excuse than “too easy”.

Hehe … then you look at the bug section on the wiki.

A lv80 rune set would involve 8 runes. You’ll never benefit from the full set.

Alternatively you just puff up the numbers which is just the most boring type of power creep.

They actually changed it to require killing him now? Last time I ran P1 my friends already finished that part. :P

I think you have failed to provide any justification for why a defensive stat should also have offensive benefits. A trait or rune set that converts part of your healing power to power would be a different story.

Do they actually give you something useful or just more useless Tyrian mastery exp?

Cakemeister.5792:

Does Hearts and Minds still reset all the way to the beginning if failed?

What is your definition of “beginning”? It has never brought me back to the beginning.

NinjaEd.3946:

Getting away from the pvp/wvw scene since it just…. anyways. As for pve in HoT, I’ve looked at videos in the past and recent and just trying to get a general idea of what it has to offer. With that a few questions for those who hopefully know it best.

1. Is the pve in HoT something that is enjoyable? By this I mean is it something you can pick up for an hour or 2 after work or on a day off and not feel lost or bored?

Depends on the zone. Verdant Brink, Auric Basin(though this can be very slow if you are not running with a group), Tangled Depths are okay. Dragon’s Stand … well hopefully your work schedule matches its schedule.

2. Is it repetitive grinding to high ends or do things get shaken up a bit depending on what you are looking to do, such as building a legendary via the precursor quests?

Not really sure what you mean but the second collection of every legendary is pure grind for materials. Some of the other bits can be interesting if you try to make it interesting. There will also be plenty of time gated stuff if you don’t have a stockpile of ascended crafting materials.

3. I understand that some professions have an easier time than others in the new zones so I’m assuming there are some challenges. However, are these challenges based on enemy mechanics or just rapid scaling to where everything can “1 shot” you and has x10 health?

It mostly boils down to CC followed by burst or dumping all your CCs on something for the breakbar. Octovine in AB, Gerent in TD, the Blighting Towers and Mouth of Mordremoth fights have a bit more stuff. Nothing else comes to mind.

5. Similar to question 4 and 3, does HoT content demand specific builds in raids/world events or are they flexible based on player skill? Similar experience I’ve had in the past with fractals with people demanding build x only to watch them die over and over and ultimately giving 0 dps while they run back or get revived. I’d rather just know what I’m there for and run it on my terms, does HoT content demand something else?

Look forward to answers.

Yes and no. In HoT you want to have as many stunbreaks as well as your own CCs as possible and stability. You could do without going to extremes but I hope being a pinball from time to time. Personally I am not a fan of monsters design where the monster have only 2 attacks and at least 1 is a CC. There will also be times where you might know what needs to be done but if the other people around don’t care then it will just fail anyway because due to scaling you can dump every possible you can bring and still not do much to the CC bar.

39,000 … still a long way to go even for #1 on the leaderboard

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

When mining ore while in Auric Basin, you will gain Auric Slivers in addition to normal materials. You also have a chance to mine special items from ore nodes all around the Heart of Maguuma.

Once you get the slivers, unless you have an active collection that needs something else, I don’t believe anyone has gotten anything else.

Well you continue to get auric slivers …

You seem to be thinking of the sharpening stones.

Hmm Irukanji farming in Solid Ocean fractal would make sense.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Maybe the OP is thinking of that champ wind rider at the end of the Southsun skipping stones jp?

In that case what is so special about farming that?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

How about the event: Rescue the villagers and defeat harpy kidnappers. It’s been bugged (and reported) since 2013. And then they made it a quest for the new legendary shortbow.

orenwolf.1953:

Not one, but TWO of the events needed for this journey, contain issues that get them “stuck”, and cannot progress.

“Escort the quaggan emissary to the kodan camp”, http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Escort_the_quaggan_emissary_to_the_kodan_camp and

“Rescue the villagers and defeat harpy kidnappers”,
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rescue_the_villagers_and_defeat_harpy_kidnappers

If you look at the discussion pages for these quests, they have both been broken. Since 2013. 2013.

I’m at a loss to understand how it is that these bugs weren’t obvious, big blaring stoppers to launching this legendary journey – I mean, it’s not like they’re obscure? How do you create a legendary journey that involves not one, but two, two-year-old, progress-blocking bugs like that?

The quaggan one is supposed to be fixed(twice?) in recent patches.

The harpy one is just … something. Even when it doesn’t break the event doesn’t give any event credit.

lilypop.7819:

Vabbi! (if Old World)

It’s low pop and at present only one of the BLs at a time is usually Q-ed (5 minute wait).

Only time I have seen ‘unfriendly’ is a few times in pvp and abuse towards commanders in WvW – far more common. PvE wise never seen a single example of Wowism.

There is not a lot of uber about – except from the Germans but they have invaded HoT so you can ignore them for a while.

TC is NA while Vabbi is EU …

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

And there’s those explorers in Cursed Shore that are always standing around talking about how much they’d like you to escort them… except you can’t.

Oh… and that npc in VB at the Ordinance rally point who is supposed to accept your salvage during his event.. only he never wants to take my salvage. Take it, kitten! Take my salvage!!

Odd, never had an issue with that one. Did it start after the April patch?

Well that depends. How comfortable are you at playing the glassiest possible character?

NosShark.9732:

Khisanth.2948:

That is not aetherium. Aetherium acculates over time from having the mine. Favor is what you get from guild missions and … see above.

Your right, sorry I was about half dead to the world when I wrote that… Favor is the main concern for us all, though aetherium is also a concern that we all face, both are key components to our guilds going up in levels…

Aetherium is very unlikely to be an issue unless someone is planning on throwing a lot of money at the material requirements of the other upgrades and if that is the case they should send some of that towards the mining rate upgrades. If there isn’t someone planning that then more often than not you’ll have aetherium sitting at max capacity but with insufficient resources to get any upgrades.

NosShark.9732:

There are also the WvW Protect the Dulyak missions, which only take 3 people on easy, medium and even hard, they just go up in amount of times to protect and time frame isn’t too bad either, its one we usually do if we get a chance…

If you happen to be in a guild that enjoys all game modes that is fine but otherwise setting it to PvE only tends to be less risky. The 3 people minimum requirement can also a bit of a problem.

BunjiKugashira.9754:

Khisanth.2948:

I want the lion fountain from the old Lion’s Arch.

Wintersday Reveler

Humans fund—ahem, appreciate Wintersday more than the other races do, and Lion’s Arch has a tendency to sink from time to time. Divinity’s Reach is safe and friendly!

We all know the cause of Lion’s Arch’s misfortune was the fountain!

No, LA is run by pirates. The occasional bad thing happening there is just karma for the crimes.

The event description does imply that there would be another boss if the event “fails” but it was easy to see that was not the case back before timers and before there was the daily chest. The shaman would wander around being very lonely for a long time. It would be pretty odd is ANet added another event after that at some point and never bothered to tell anyone about it.

Where in the game do you have to kill enough wind riders that these would even make any difference?

I don’t do the multilooting thing but I think it is fine because AB itself feels very unrewarding compared to the VB and TD. The events just seems to drag on for long. I think it is partly because all the NPCs in AB are way too talkative.

Felahr.9830:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Ironically, I use this semi-often and the only thing I don’t like about it is that you fire your weapon when you first start running.

no you dont? how on earth does the mouse cause you to activate your autoattack/skills?

That would Action camera’s fault.

I want the lion fountain from the old Lion’s Arch.

PopeUrban.2578:

Try joining a smaller more social guild?

but a guild has to have 250+ people!

DoctorDing.5890:

Compared with GW1, guilds just don’t seem to matter very much in GW2.
I’m sure there are some happy, thriving guilds out there but it does not feel like there is the vibrant diversity of guilds we had in GW1 and they don’t seem to have much of a role. Maybe it’s the gameplay style, maybe gaming habits have changed, maybe it’s something else. /shrug

Are you trying to make some vague reference to GvG? Otherwise I don’t see anything in GW1 that required a guild. My guild exists for the same reason in both game, as a chat channel primarily.

Class doesn’t matter. I obtained most of the items using my necro. The meta chest will give you a random one of those items that you are missing if you have multiple collections unlocked. Otherwise it is just random.

BrotherBelial.3094:

What have the Devs learned from the feed back left by players?

That most will complain about having to play the game to get the things they want.

I’m not saying everything they do is perfect, far from it. I don’t think maps should be on timers. I feel they should be player driven like SW. The pip system in PvP league is a joke, but that’s just my view.

Hmm … SW is also on timers, just slightly different ones.

o_O

but “Search and Rescue!” doesn’t require a target and in theory it should already default to the nearest. Ressing in general doesn’t require you to select a target either except in the case where you have a downed person next to some inconsiderate dead person trying to get more people killed.

The brick idea sounds great until you realize you can’t really use bricks unless you make them very big otherwise you quickly run into the “too many decorations in the area” restruction. At best the bricks would be scribing components that can be crafted into walls and other structures.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Excuse me while I put on my “Captain Explains Things” codpiece and recount history for a bit.

The original trait system we had was quite free form. Given 70 points, we were allowed to invest any number of points into any line, and once we had sufficient points we could grab any trait along that line. This would also give us status bonuses depending which lines we invested in. This system… was scrapped. Largely because Anet found in testing that free-form trait choice lead to the ability to make some seriously overpowered builds. Having no better way to deal with the horrible build inequality that would arise from the situation, the “adept-master-grandmaster” tiering system was made. This provide at least some form of exclusion along the traits.

However, all was not well. We still had to deal with difficult trait balancing, even more so since physical stats were still tied to the trait system. After awhile, Anet noticed an anomaly among player trends. There was a large portion (I can’t remember the exact number, so lets just say significant enough) of players who, quite frankly, couldn’t build themselves right. One of the most popular builds in the game was the 14/14/14/14/14 build, where players would distribute their trait points evenly across all lines. Back then, the system was designed so you would specialize into different lines, and it gave you a new trait choice for every 5 points. So players would instinctively distribute their points in the literally worst possible way.

After a horrible NPE update and a couple of attempts to lock traits behind achievements, the system before was scrapped almost entirely, and now we have the new specialization system. While the freeform point allocation could work well for players who liked to theorycraft or listen to theorycrafters, the system was too idiot-prone to function. The current system we have now was designed specifically to minimize the chances that a player is going to build themselves into ineffectiveness.

As much as I’d like to see the build system become more diverse, the dreaded 14 × 6 build problem still exists. Any complicated system proposed would have to either accommodate for the fact that players will use it incorrectly, or have to convince Anet that it is O.K. for players to build themselves horribly.

Many of the old traits were also very crappy. The total number of traits might have been greater but the actual number of choices was not equal to the number of traits available.

Adry.7512:

Well, I was thinking of implying a better guild system, by making then more relevant, maybe adding guild structure, such as divisions. Each division would have its own job and specialization. Eg: stealth, front line, etc. I believe guilds are an opportunity for communities to expand, instead of just sitting there.

That would be putting the cart before the horse.

More likely than not it would just be a waste a resources because it would be created and nobody would use it because there is nothing in the game that would benefit from that structure.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Considering how a previous discussion of this topic a month ago had statements about non repping members “spying” on guild chat and about how guild leaders have “lost control,” maybe this type of discussion by guild leaders is more about controlling their members than whether or not players should be able to rep different guilds so they can easily play with different people.

I prefer not to be controlled, thanks. I’ll rep the guilds that interest me most and listen to the chat of all my guilds.

Outrage is also great for people who do not like to be controlled.

Aerodrome. Southern part of LA.

Power.2957:

This has been driving me absolutely crazy while trying to decorate the guild hall. You right click to turn your camera, you left click to turn your decoration, and sometimes you click both mouse buttons during the transition between the two and your character runs forward and screws up all of your positioning. Please, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD give us an option to turn off this archaic default control that moves your character forward when using both mouse buttons simultaneously.

(If it is already possible to turn this off and someone could point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.)

Those problems have very little do with this particular feature.

The real problem is the clumsy decorating interface we have right now. For example it should be possible to edit a decoration’s orientation after being placed. You should be able to target and remove a specific decoration instead of being an AoE operation. Being able to adjust position after placement would also be good.

Representing was only important when it was necessary for Influence and chat. Neither of those are true anymore.

Does a <insert your favorite sports team> fan stop being a fan of that team simply because they aren’t wearing a hat with that team’s logo? Does the member of a union stop being a member unless they walk around carrying a sign announcing their membership to everyone they meet?

You need the goggles not the chest? O_o

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats

Server linking is not the same as server merges. It also means you can transfer or start on the server TC is linked to and still play WvW together … at least until the linking gets changed anyway.

Tarasicodissa.7084:

The 2 skill is messy indeed, but I found this adventure much more fun than many others. Really enjoyed getting gold on this, despite what you said, it’s still way better than stupid RNG farming at shooting gallery or fallen masks.
I like when getting gold actually takes precision and memorization and you don’t have to rely on simply lucking out.

(also, haven’t really checked this out since april 19th but apparently gold is now even more forgiving than it used to be, I’d say there’s plenty of room for error now)

A bunch of seconds was added to Fungus Among Us for gold and Shooting Gallery is less RNG dependent.

Hmm … there is a way to add a subscription without adding a subscription.

Path of Exile has supporter packs that people can buy in addition to the stuff in their store. https://www.pathofexile.com/purchase as you can see on the page some of those are pretty pricey and in the past there was another tier that was in the $1000 range. You can also set up a payment plan by contacting support. That is functionally equivalent to a subscription. Everything is cosmetic so there isn’t any issues with benefits. They are also more balanced than some of the ideas in this thread which might be great for players but sucks for ANet.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Yeah it’s doable just really a pain having squad/party members in other maps all the time so the rest of the party can join them. I imagine there is a lot of time spent trying to find the proper map.

Well you can take the same approach TTS uses to get a map for TT but that requires a fairly large number of people.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Khisanth.2948:

RoseofGilead.8907:

Also, you have badges from achievements, but you don’t have a character that’s at least level 14? Or are you just misunderstanding what they mean by “level 14”? Level 14 just means level 14, like in PvE.

Rank 14 from WvW not level 14.

Oh really? I guess I haven’t paid attention to the vendor changes. My bad on that.

Probably around the same time as when the Gift of Battle started requiring r14.

Raine.1394:

Right now run speed is in the mix for trade-offs. You generally have to give something up for 25% run speed, but it is available through runes, utilities, traits, or for those willing to spam abilities. Any kind of perma-boost would take it out of the mix which I don’t think is happening any time soon.

Also consumable http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Writ_of_Masterful_Speed but ANet needs to be stop being in love with Matroska doll based design for that to be worth using. 13g for 30m of 25% speed boost is just a bit too out there.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Also, you have badges from achievements, but you don’t have a character that’s at least level 14? Or are you just misunderstanding what they mean by “level 14”? Level 14 just means level 14, like in PvE.

Rank 14 from WvW not level 14.

Dungeon tokens, PvP dungeon reward tracks, WvW dungeon reward tracks.

The WvW weapons are 198 badges for 2h and 132 badges for 1h plus 1g. Badges can be converted to Badge of Tributes and sold. At current prices that means the WvW exotic weapons cost 2g57s90c for 1h and 3g36s85c for 2h. If you don’t like PvP type activities then Edge of the Mist is probably easiest to get to rank 14.