Guild Wars 2

It probably doesn’t get any better than today. Complete a scale 10 and you get two.

Two things you need to know for that fractal. Stack on the Molten Berserker(3 o’clock on the platform) in the beginning and bring reflect(or anything to destroy projectiles) for the Molten Firestorm’s fireballs if you have them. Stacking on the Molten Berserker is just to avoid having it jump all over the place.

wavyfish.8430:

I just can’t do it. my elementalist just dies in two hits from those kittening tendrils, because they not only aoe you in the 1 second you need to kittening see when the kitten ruka is going, they also fling you around until you can’t see any kitten. by the time you reorient yourself, goodbye try again.

all my gear breaks again and again. I don’t know what anet is trying to do when designing these kittening missions. the only things I want to do after trying so many times so kittening many times is not to play this kittening game ever again.

One very useful thing to know about that sequence is that you can and should run ahead of the exalted. You don’t need wait for him at the barrier. This delays the spawns of both the tendrils and the other stuff slightly.

Not even the slightest.

TheSwede.9512:

I could see this Mastery be added to Core Tyria Masteries, however. That way, everyone has access to it once they reach Lvl 80.

Bonuses could be something like:

One for All (3 Mastery Point)
While in a Party, you and all Party members gain +5% to All Experience and Karma gain, as well as Magic Find. This stacks with other players’ “One for All”. In Squads, you may only benefit from 5 Instances of this buff, and may only affect up to 5 other players.

Altruistic Teamwork (6 Mastery Points)
Skills and Traits that grant Boons or Buffs to a maximum of 5 people now grant their effects to a maximum of 10 people, while you’re in a Squad.

Wolf Pack (9 Mastery Points)
Gain Enrage when a Party or Squad member is downed. Enrage increases Damage and decreases incoming damage by 10% for a short time. Enrage disappears once the Party Member is Rallied or Defeated. Enrage does not Stack.

All for One (12 Mastery Points)
While in a Party or a Squad, you may now achieve Platinum Award Level when completing Events, gaining increased rewards from completed events.
The Bonus to Experience Gain, Karma and Magic Find is increased to 10%.

The 5 target limit was largely due to server performance issues.

Magitech pogosticks!

I don’t think that is something that belongs in the store though.

What resolution are you running the game at? I just checked and if I lower my vertical resolution enough I stop being able to change the mini map’s vertical size.

Thanathos.2063:

Special tip: It’s way cheaper to build another ascended insignia to build a weapon with other stats, and then convert this weapon with an exotic sinister insignia via mystic forge.
Those black diamonds will make you poor otherwise

Black Diamond is Viper not Sinister.

You will need the same amount of Black Diamonds.

Nuhoch Proving has been pointless for me. Both the fight and reward was forgettable(I doubt anyone would expect any different). The only reason I remember the fight was because my sister asked me if I was the big ugly thing on screen. Nuhoch Alchemy hasn’t really made any difference either.

If you are interested in any of the elite specialization weapons then definitely get Exalted Gathering first.

Doesn’t seem like a very good idea. The two outcomes are either meaningless tiny buffs or making partying mandatory. Neither is really desirable. If the only reason you are going to play with someone is because you are being bribed by the game then I think you should try to fix that instead.

Gunsnroll.2657:

Same as every legendaries, at least from gen 2.
Just delete them and cry typing all the names.

1) shift+click
2) shift+home
3) ctrl+x
4) drag item out of inventory to destroy
5) ctrl+v
6) backspace
7) home
8) delete
9) confirm delete

description makes it look worse than it is but that approach is pretty quick for all the annoying HoT stuff you have to confirm to delete

Well to be fair the male light armor characters are stuck with a lot of dresses too …

Deedrick.4372:

Well I have to disagree to a point. The tier 3 collections are fun. The tier 1 collection is not bad in itself, but the 2nd tier…. I do belive this was the part they looked at tp and said this will make the process cost as much as current precursors so we don’t have to hear the QQ. I think they didn’t bother to consider the inflation on mats with so many people doing them, or consider ways to adjust that. Bottom line is either do it or don’t, but complaining isn’t going to change a thing. The underwater weapons are considerably less in cost, maybe play with them.

2/3 of those cost more to craft than to buy. The other one is about equal.

Hmm I also have The Minstrel collection unlocked. That also requires the mushroom.

Excell.1042:

Because i dont care much for gold, i want to experience what they came up with with pre crafting and +9 AP is nice to me, however I do not like being forced into a grindwall after spending that amount.

Got some bad news for you. If you think this is grind then wait till you do the tier 2(it’s the same for every weapon of both generations).

Just got around 20 from 5 sawgill mushrooms.

hrm? I have 1 of the mushroom milk thing in the bank and 241. The rate doesn’t seem particularly high or low and it does drop in quantities of more than 1 at a time. It does seem like it only drops from certain types of mushroom nodes.

On the other hand as you’ve mentioned crafting this is nearly 3 times the cost of buying so why bother?

Replace those ugly wings with a fluffy ram(with wiggling arms and legs!) and all your problems will be solved.

Vague Memory.2817:

replaying personal story parts several times to get the achievements.

That will NOT give additional points. Personal Story gives 1 point per chapter completion the first time that chapter was completed on any character. The achievement panel is just misleading for those.

Etienne.3049:

Never do anything without being in a fairly large group of players (5-10+ I’d guess).

That would actually be a terrible idea due to scaling.

DragonChaser.3170:

“3) I really don’t get that question.”
Its like we both explained basicly, you are forced to wear a horn for movement speed as secundairy instead of using a gun to unleash a volley at an enemy and then quickly switch to your great sword and smash the enemy.

or you could use one of the gap closers instead of wasting time with the rifle

There is also the trait and Signet of Rage as alternatives. There is also Superior Rune of the Traveler and Superior Rune of Speed for lv60+. Sigil of Speed can also be used to stack swiftness.

“Like I said, EotM will give be one of the best way to level up, but not everybody like it.”
I googled this quickly, this is PVP? 0__0… so PVP is the best way to lvl up… ok 0__0

In theory it is. In practice not really. It is more PvE+PvDoors. Although most of the PvE mobs there will be more challenging than most of the core PvE mobs. They are closer in power level to the HoT mobs.

One of those pointless questions unless you consider every facet of the game and the design of every fight. For starters every single instance of things like attacks failing to render would have to be fixed. Hard hitting attack without any telegraph? That needs fixing too. Oh and you better make kitten sure your game has an unbeatable leveling experience. Permanent death is not one of those things you are just toggle on and off for a game and go “what if…?”.

In theory I never would have paid any attention to the game but on the other hand I probably would have stuck with playing Realm of the Mad God(which has permanent death and in a way requires it dying at some point as well) some more if I found more people to play it with.

Donari.5237:

It actually ends up being more like one and a half hours, starting every two hours at half past the hour (eg it’s every even half hour eastern time, 12:30, 2:30, 4:30 etc).

Colin said in his interview on Guild Chat that ANet knows the rigid time commitment of the HoT maps isn’t in line with their core design philosophy so they will be reworking things. Whether that means in the April or July big patches (or later) we don’t know.

I have no idea how they can keep the feel of DS, the massive drive up the lanes to the epic face off with the Mouth, while changing it so people can find things to do at any point they arrive, but I’m not a game designer.

Massive drive up the lanes? Epic face off? =_=

Anyone using one of these before should make sure they have an amulet equipped before starting a match?

St Nap Yppah.1752:

Can we revert every change that was made to rifle in the past month … I think they were trying to buff rifle … ? Probably ??? I found it much more playable before the update.

With the piercing removed from most skills they are making it even more of a 1 trick pony. They have removed the cleave component of it so it is basically gunflame, volley, wait for recharges and repeat. When all skills could pierce you could feel like you were actually doing something with the other skills. Now they are just fillers.

I wasn’t a fan of the auto dodge on brutal shot but the jump cancel was a good solution. It allowed me to choose when I wanted the dodge roll backwards and when I didn’t. In most cases I didn’t want it. Now with there being no cancel it greatly reduces the usability of the skill.

Wasn’t the warrior update a month ago suppose to be about opening up warrior weapon skills and making them feel more impactful and active? So the weapon they they gave the most update to ended up actually being worse? Is this the way anyone else sees it?

Making it a flip skill or having the skill give enough endurance for a dodge would have better better.

Depending on when you were last around there was a change that made it so it only shows the closest event(although sometimes you can see more than one) instead of all active events on the map. That would change does make it look like there are much fewer events around.

RoseofGilead.8907:

You only get the story rewards once per character. You’d have to run it on a different character to get rewards again. You can run a story chapter as many times as you like on any character, but, as I said, you only get rewards once.

As for your other questions, I believe the “5/6” is how many you’ve already earned from that chapter of the HoT personal story and its achievements. You can only get Personal Story Mastery points once. So, once you complete a story arc that rewards a Mastery point (or more than one), you won’t get any other Mastery points from it (even if you do it on multiple characters). You can do the achievements for each chapter to get the points tied to those, but, again, those points are only gained once. You could use a different character to get that final Mastery point, once they’ve done the story and are able to do the achievements. But it’ll still just be an account wide Mastery point.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mastery_point_unlocks#Heart_of_Maguuma_mastery_points

There’s a list of all the Mastery points you can get, including the ones you get from the story and story achievements.

Achievement eligibility in HoT stories are account bound. Once you have done any of the steps on any character you can use any other character to do the achievements.

Is this the right place for giving a thumbs down for SAB? :P
It would be worse than the Wintersday update if that was the only content in the update …

You probably want to post in https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp instead.

I have adblock but it is disabled on dulfy’s site. On the other hand I have flaskblock as well so those would be blocked unless I manually activate them.

ShadowCatz.8437:

Silverstone.4539:

thanks guys there are truly some good ideas to some of my questions here. some I might even implement myself. cheers

You also have “the message of the Day option” to send a message to everybody who is logging on and belong to a guild. That way you can both make sure to remind people in your guild about what kind of activities that will be going on for each day (daily update of massage) or send a reminder about what is expected for members of your guild.

Here is picture where you can see where to edit message of the Day: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Guild_HoT_panel_main.jpg

Also great place for list of materials required for guild upgrades.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It still drops, but only if you haven’t gotten one. (If you have, you get a ‘broken spoon’ instead — that’s a ‘junk’ item, so easier to turn into coin.)

That might explain why other folks haven’t seen it.

As for why you haven’t… it’s random and some seem to get it right away and others… well, a month is a bit long, but not unheard of (especially if, for example, you’re only doing 3/day rather than 9/day).

Swamps of the Mists doesn’t help either.

A month ago.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-January-12-2016/5914292

Astralaria IV—Magnification Lens: This collectible can be earned from the “Ensure that the Pact holds the Gates of Arah” event at the Narthex.

Ayrilana.1396:

I don’t really pay all that much attention to how people look unless it’s something that stands out such as the charr trying to be Ronald McDonald.

I’ve met Winnie the Pooh and Optimus Prime as well.

The finishers are also tradeable so you can just buy those through the TP with gold(or buy the gold with gems).

300 gems to re-enable key farming? I think you are dreaming.

TexZero.7910:

Meanwhile i’m sitting on 0 airship parts and like 4k currency for ley-line sparks.

I’ve already created astralaria and still had 87 airship oils left over, and over two days of just killing gerent and opening chest in that area im back up to 67.

Maybe it’s just me, but i dont find ley line sparks hard to come by.

Do you mean ley line sparks or crystals? I ask because you are comparing them to airship parts. Comparing crystals to airship parts would make sense. Comparing sparks to airship parts doesn’t really make sense.

Ayrilana.1396:

Khisanth.2948:

Hmmm I can’t decide what would be more annoying. The current bags full of bags full of bags or having to disable autoloot because it would require constant inventory maintenance in some situations.

That’s true. I forgot about that. I guess it hadn’t come to me since I’ve made it a habit to salvage everything but I can see how it would be an issue for those that do not want to nor have the copper fed tool.

The bigger issue would be having to salvage as you fight.

That Guy.5704:

Khisanth.2948:

That Guy.5704:

Dayra.7405:

OtterPaws.2036:

Buying the deldrimor straight out would end up having the precursor be more expensive then buying the precursor itself. Grinding the base materials out and buying what leftovers you need is the better way to go about it.

The only difference between grinding the materials and buying the materials is the 15% TP costs.

If building the precursor is more expensive than buying the precursor, this is the case if you buy or grind materials, as you could also grind materials, sell them and buy the precursor.

I really wonder what the developers thought by making the build-precursors ascended, if you have more effort and a higher price they are absolutely superfluous.

this isnt entirely true. There is a significant cost between the final ascended material (deldrimore) and the total buy cost of the base ingredients. This is due to the timegate. If my spreadsheet is right, the current premium for that timegate is 2.5G for deldrimore.

Now, I think that the timegates on ascended materials have outlived any real usefulness, but its still there and it still means there is a premium on the timegate.

Well the timegates were supposedly placed there mainly to give some value to crafting. It also does other stuff but that was the main purpose. It is still doing that particular job. If stops doing that job then it could probably be discarded.

I know why it was put in and I know its still the case that it puts that value on crafting them, I dont think that is necessary for any real reason.

Hard to say … there have certainly been complaints about the lack of value in leveling crafting but a lot of that also seems to be a result of expectations from other games.

That Guy.5704:

Dayra.7405:

OtterPaws.2036:

Buying the deldrimor straight out would end up having the precursor be more expensive then buying the precursor itself. Grinding the base materials out and buying what leftovers you need is the better way to go about it.

The only difference between grinding the materials and buying the materials is the 15% TP costs.

If building the precursor is more expensive than buying the precursor, this is the case if you buy or grind materials, as you could also grind materials, sell them and buy the precursor.

I really wonder what the developers thought by making the build-precursors ascended, if you have more effort and a higher price they are absolutely superfluous.

this isnt entirely true. There is a significant cost between the final ascended material (deldrimore) and the total buy cost of the base ingredients. This is due to the timegate. If my spreadsheet is right, the current premium for that timegate is 2.5G for deldrimore.

Now, I think that the timegates on ascended materials have outlived any real usefulness, but its still there and it still means there is a premium on the timegate.

Well the timegates were supposedly placed there mainly to give some value to crafting. It also does other stuff but that was the main purpose. It is still doing that particular job. If stops doing that job then it could probably be discarded.

Hmmm I can’t decide what would be more annoying. The current bags full of bags full of bags or having to disable autoloot because it would require constant inventory maintenance in some situations.

I usually have PingPlotter running when the connection is acting up. With network problems someone else having or not having a similar issue isn’t all that helpful for pinpointing your own problem.

The answer is pretty simple. It’s a bug.

The devs mixed up the stats between the uninfused and infused version. The infused version which is supposed to have the agony infusion slot is missing the slot.

Quarktastic.1027:

I haven’t purchased the golden wings, but I usually use the hero panel to preview a glider before I buy it. But the golden wings glider doesn’t have an icon in my hero panel. I noticed the golden wings backpack doesn’t appear in my wardrobe storage either.

Again, I have not purchased this item.

The wings are set to be hidden until unlocked. The glider is probably the same so that is very unusual. There are other skins like that as well.

It would probably be on the Pact Supply Network Agent rather than fractal drops. The really don’t need to provide even more incentive to run that fractal to the exclusion of most others.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pact_Supply_Network_Agent

Rytlock? Is it the crappy warrior version or the crappy herald?

DGraves.3720:

Khisanth.2948:

Skills are balanced based on their damage/utility, cooldown, activation time, and after cast. If you remove the cooldown then other parts need to suffer an equal amount.

The only reason I would want these would be if I was very desperate to finish those off hand weapon master achievements.

Energy management systems terminate half of those issues.

Not really. The energy cost replace the CD and the regen rate for energy functions similar to a global CD.

Skills are balanced based on their damage/utility, cooldown, activation time, and after cast. If you remove the cooldown then other parts need to suffer an equal amount.

The only reason I would want these would be if I was very desperate to finish those off hand weapon master achievements.

Have you checked with Hobbs? The second dialog option.

Serious.6940:

Didn’t they fix this a couple of months back?

Not exactly. :P

They said they improved it.

I got it the other day but that was doing the defend. The free event has been buggy for an extremely long time. Even in those times when I managed to do the event and the villager wasn’t bugged I would get no event credit.

He is also at the wrong location in that picture.

Timer also missing?