Guild Wars 2

Seera.5916:

Maybe they didn’t want players just staying on one map doing the event over and over and over again like they do in Silverwastes.

You have to stay till the end to get the end reward. So that means having to stay for the full cycle.

But they didn’t want to turn the maps into a once a day and then done thing like the core maps’ world bosses.

So they tried putting the events on timers with the events far enough away in time that they hoped most players would get bored and do other events on other maps during the wait.

Do other events on other maps and lose all participation credit?

Randulf.7614:

I can see that point of view, but their idea was to move the events in semi-real time and keep it going as a “living map”. In that respect it works. It’s an idea which is divisive. Some players absolutely love the idea and some people don’t, but it has achieved their design goal for this expac. People wanted less static maps so they came up with this as a solution. One which may or may not stick.

O_o

How is running on a fixed schedule less static?

StinVec.3621:

I was just playing about an hour ago and my map instance had Oola’s lab open, but the group you protect was stalled out and was just standing there after the first main hall. The whole complex was open for free roaming and players could just waltz through to the end and loot the chest or do whatever else they wanted to do in there.

This ‘event’ actually bugs out like this a lot, so may want to keep an alt parked at the main gate for it and check it now and then to see if it is open and bugged or open and working properly and progressing so you can run in and get what you need.

I am standing in that instance right now. Unfortunately turrets aren’t working(attacking) so that would be a problem.

The guild workshop and arena upgrades are also gobbling up the orbs as well.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

No need to change anything. the gemstones have a cap on price because it will become profitable to upconvert lower level jewels into orbs. Once the T5 jewels go above vendor price then it will be profitable to upconvert T4 to T5 to T6… etc, etc, all the way to T1.

Having this 1 item needed in large quantities is bringing the price of over 50 items that have sat at vendor value for 3 years to actually have value. This is exactly the sort of thing we WANT to happen. People have tons of these items sitting in their bank because they weren’t worth doing anything with before.

Orbs may be running low on supply however the price/supply of crystals hasn’t even started to move yet.

Mmm need to drag more people into AB where there seems to be a plentiful amount of ori nodes.

That is an issue with some swords. Might also be a racial scaling thing.

Do you need something from the chest in there or from the NPC after the event? If it is from the chest you can get in without the crystal.

Have you tried talking to Hobbs?

Huge.5891:

ok thanks. i forgot that option menu scrolled down. been forever since i changed the settings. dont know why auto target was even on. thanks

There was a bug a few patches ago that was causing all the options on the first tab to reset on logout.

The correct solution would be flying minis. :P

Ayrilana.1396:

Khisanth.2948:

gw2tp also seems to be having some DB issues. Check the same items on gw2spidy.

GW2TP updates more frequently that gw2spidy

I mean it seems to not to go back very far in the history. I remember it going back much farther in the past.

gw2tp also seems to be having some DB issues. Check the same items on gw2spidy.

Didn’t really notice but I was mining tons of copper at the time for The Legend.

Either the infinite Toypocalypse doesn’t count or Grawnk doesn’t count if it was completed last year, I don’t remember the count before completing the Toypocalypse one the first time. The infinite bell choir did count since it incremented from 16/18 to 17/18. Either way misleading UI on the meta achievement.

Just noticed this on the t1 astralaria one as well. The useless stuff that should have a sell price don’t. The important stuff you shouldn’t be able to easily get rid of gets a sell price. -_-

Dontel.3790:

I checked with Grandmaster Hobbs but he hasn’t given me the option to buy it back at all from him… checked on all different characters on the account.

Then you are looking on the wrong tab.

Cronos.6532:

It also sounds like you already have quite a lot of mastery points; everything besides what you listed means you’re only missing 1-5. Big deal.

If OP had everything else besides what is listed that should mean they have enough points to max out all currently available Tyria masteries …

There isn’t really any need for that extra mastery point.

Blaine Tog.8304:

Khisanth.2948:

Blaine Tog.8304:

Having commanded maps of newbies against SB, I think he’s designed the way he is intentionally. Having to split off to take out portals while avoiding the champions that spawn and then getting back to his head and DPSing him down with no traits or gear to back up your attacks makes him actually a rather challenging, epic fight for new players. Giving him a bunch of new mechanics would just make him a frustrating experience for them and detract from the “Wow!” factor.

Jormag and the Shatterer are far better candidates for a rework, IMO. Those are intended to be fought mostly by downscaled 80s so they really should have more interesting and difficult mechanics.

I can never understand why people use “epic” to refer to HP sponges. If that is really what people mean when they use that word I really worry about all the times ANet has used it to refer to stuff.

Oh tish tosh, you know what I meant: it’s big and flashy and scary and puts on a good show and you need a bunch of people to take it down under ordinary circumstances, all of which looks really good to fresh-faced players who were expecting to have to fight nothing but womp rats for hours and hours before seeing anything cool.

It isn’t remotely as complicated a fight as the Vale Guardian or even Teq and yes, it’s basically just a big punching bag, but for new players, SB is amazing. It generates a great deal of enthusiasm for the game and gives them something to feel excited about after defeating it. I realize it’s rather blase’ for old grognards like us who see who easy it really is but if you peel away that cynicism, SB is absolutely perfect.

Nope. Never had that effect. On the other hand GW2 is not the first game I’ve ever played …

Blaine Tog.8304:

Having commanded maps of newbies against SB, I think he’s designed the way he is intentionally. Having to split off to take out portals while avoiding the champions that spawn and then getting back to his head and DPSing him down with no traits or gear to back up your attacks makes him actually a rather challenging, epic fight for new players. Giving him a bunch of new mechanics would just make him a frustrating experience for them and detract from the “Wow!” factor.

Jormag and the Shatterer are far better candidates for a rework, IMO. Those are intended to be fought mostly by downscaled 80s so they really should have more interesting and difficult mechanics.

I can never understand why people use “epic” to refer to HP sponges. If that is really what people mean when they use that word I really worry about all the times ANet has used it to refer to stuff.

No but if that is the reason you could switch ot a different mastery unless you are on the last line.

Doggie.3184:

Is it as bad_ as SWTOR? Cuz that game bullies the hell out of you by constantly begging and nitpicking at you for money at every opportunity. :s

Chat restrictions are pretty sucky but w/o them there’d be a flood of goldsellers and at least you only have to pay once instead of having some annoying sub system like some “f2p” have.

Not really. There is a thing on the character select screen and a popup when you try to sell/buy certain things on the TP. I don’t remember running into any other “BUY NOW!!!!” kind of thing but you can just make one and go see for yourself.

Despair.2374:

The bots are real, I’ve reported 5 in one game. Buddy of mine is streaming this atm, they always take the snowman lane.

Sad thing is, they might be playing on f2p accounts

What would be the point? Can’t move anything out of a F2P account.

Edit: Hmm I guess you could use it to buy guild hall upgrades.

Lumpy.8760:

i wonder if specialization releases will be reserved for big expansions every 3 years

They have hinted at the possibility of adding more with LS releases but even more definitive stuff have slipped through so who knows.

Zinni.8794:

Yea. It can get nasty in chat most of the time. I have never been on a map that has managed to take down even one wurm. It’s sad. Especially with what 4, masteries tied behind it?

Frankly I think Anet NEEDS to add this event to the rotation of world boss dailies. Even if you only need to get one down for credit. It would easily bring in the people needed to do at least one.

Every time I have been there I see people that didn’t even know this event exists. Adding it to the dailies would increase the player bases knowledge of the event and increase the number of players that know how to fight each one. So many people start screaming in chat about how others are “doing it wrong” in much less nicer terms. Yet will not explain the tactics required.
So, yes between the lack of players not knowing the event exists, in turn not generating enough players to support the event, and when new players come in and are at a loss at what to do, it tends to generate a toxic environment.

Having people who just shows up for the daily without bothering to learn what needs to be done is probably not going to help much if at all.

This was around when they added the hiding initially. Seemed like it was fixed for a while and now it is back. Actually not really “now” since it’s been like that for a while. Re-enabling it constantly does seem to eventually get it to stick …

You generally don’t have to do much damage to most mobs to qualify for both exp and loot from it. There are a few exceptions.

They can buy gems with money but not gold.

TheGrimm.5624:

Races/Rushes are one guild mission that currently allows people to not have to wait and allows multiple guilds work together on an objective which to me is a positive things that also benefits the smaller sizes guilds. The biggest issue right now is educating people that they don’t have to wait if another guild has started it and can run their people thru as well gaining credit for both guilds. I don’t think I would like to see these change since they are working well currently.

One change they do need to make is to prevent last week’s situation of the same race on two different slots.

If someone starts and easy you DO have to wait if you want to do the medium otherwise the timer on your mission would run out before the race finishes.

Endless Soul.5178:

Question: Will you be using infinite gathering tools or standard, level appropriate, consumable gathering tools?

Doesn’t matter if you are only after the exp.

Meh …

GW1 had that and at first I would pay attention but eventually I just stopped caring.

ArchonWing.9480:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

ArchonWing.9480:

Yea, that’s why I said area and not zone. But my thought was that it’d be a pain to be a level 2 or whatnot in a level 6 area and then level up only gathering. Certainly doable, of course.

Doable, but difficult. There’s not that many nodes along that area and the areas increase in levels pretty fast. In addition there are a number of hostile mobs, including numerous centaurs and further down there are wolves that would be tough for a level 2 to avoid and still harvest.

Yea, those wolves are annoying. But that’s why I have those concerns because I’d imagine that’d be more frustrating than challenging to start out with.

You could use Edge of the Mists for the early levels …

Why wait? You can start another one pretty much immediately after completing one. The missions no longer need to be built either.

Chad.6104:

Khisanth.2948:

Chad.6104:

Khisanth.2948:

Chad.6104:

TeeracK.3601:

So be clear you’re all say its possible but on the super low chance the group youre in doesnt stun lock him and burn him in 2 seconds? I’ve tried to get this all day and i don’t believe any of you that are saying it’s still possible. He does NOT spawn any vortexes if he is stunned the whole fight.

I know for a fact they never spawned because the asura hasn’t yelled out “Be careful, he’s dragging people under!” any of the times i’ve killed him.

You do realize this thread is 9 months old don’t you, and that the fight has been reworked since then so their comments on how doable it is may no longer be relevant.

It has? Tequatl Rising was in 2013 …

The Tequatl fight was reworked 6 months ago to make it more difficult. That could affect how easy it is to get the achieves he is talking about.

I don’t remember any change in that time period but that aside unless you mean less difficult that doesn’t actually make any sense. Making it more difficult would actually make the achievement easier to get.

At the end of June of this year, 6 months ago, the Tequatl fight was reworked to make it less easy. Since the comments on this thread date back 9 months ago, then they were made before the changes and may no longer be completely relevant. The person I addressed my remark to should look for a thread made after that change to discuss the achievements.

Oh that thing. That wasn’t really making it more difficult though and it wasn’t a Tequatl specific change. It doubled the HP but also allowed it to be crit(which also means things that apply conditions on crit also works) and there was also the condition stacking change. The fight is much easier now than it was when it was first released (more people with ascended gear also contributes to that). Getting this achievement back then was easy because Tequatl would be using that attack for a while. Now? I haven’t seen this attack get a chance to be used more than once per run in a very long time.

Edit: oops misread

The gifts are account bound. The precursor being soulbound doesn’t matter. Just make the other stuff on different characters.

Chad.6104:

Khisanth.2948:

Chad.6104:

TeeracK.3601:

So be clear you’re all say its possible but on the super low chance the group youre in doesnt stun lock him and burn him in 2 seconds? I’ve tried to get this all day and i don’t believe any of you that are saying it’s still possible. He does NOT spawn any vortexes if he is stunned the whole fight.

I know for a fact they never spawned because the asura hasn’t yelled out “Be careful, he’s dragging people under!” any of the times i’ve killed him.

You do realize this thread is 9 months old don’t you, and that the fight has been reworked since then so their comments on how doable it is may no longer be relevant.

It has? Tequatl Rising was in 2013 …

The Tequatl fight was reworked 6 months ago to make it more difficult. That could affect how easy it is to get the achieves he is talking about.

I don’t remember any change in that time period but that aside unless you mean less difficult that doesn’t actually make any sense. Making it more difficult would actually make the achievement easier to get.

Still wondering why they decided to turn those timers into a horrible mess instead of having everything reset at the same time …

Chad.6104:

TeeracK.3601:

So be clear you’re all say its possible but on the super low chance the group youre in doesnt stun lock him and burn him in 2 seconds? I’ve tried to get this all day and i don’t believe any of you that are saying it’s still possible. He does NOT spawn any vortexes if he is stunned the whole fight.

I know for a fact they never spawned because the asura hasn’t yelled out “Be careful, he’s dragging people under!” any of the times i’ve killed him.

You do realize this thread is 9 months old don’t you, and that the fight has been reworked since then so their comments on how doable it is may no longer be relevant.

It has? Tequatl Rising was in 2013 …

Danikat.8537:

I suspect the current situation of precursors being cheaper on the TP than from collections isn’t going to last.

Precursor prices crashed as soon as the collections were announced because of people panic-selling. But as word gets around that the collections aren’t a cheap and easy way to get precursors (which Anet never said they would be) it will settle down.

It might not ever match up exactly because it will be affected by precursors from drops and the Forge and the price of materials which is affected by all kinds of other things, but everything is kind of in flux following HoT coming out (especially ascended mats) so it’s not surprising they don’t match now.

But collections were mainly aimed at people who hated relying on RNG (either directly or via buying from someone who got a lucky drop) and wanted a guaranteed way to get a precursor, not people who wanted cheap precursors.

Assuming people do their research (huge assumption though) then buying should always end up cheaper. If the price of collecting becomes cheaper people would eventually shift to doing it that way which will push the price on the TP down over time until it becomes cheaper to buy again.

It has always been like that.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

RoseofGilead.8907:

There was one datamined a looooooooooooong time ago. Sadly, it’s never been put into the game.

You mean thank god it’s never been put into the game.

I’m sorry, but I do not need to see female charr in schoolgirl outfits. That datamined preview was horrid enough, even for me.

Would have been better than the boneless wings.

In sPvP all stats are determined by the PvP amulet. You can change the amulet in the PvP build window. The PvP build is also completely separate from your PvE build (sigils, runes, stats, traits/specializations).

Extreme.8350:

Because player’s love cute characters and the other race are so ugly asura is cool.
In Tera human is the least played race. Elins,Elf and castanic are way more popular.
Maybe because guys like to look at hot chicks sure.
But I also think it’s because other races are bland and boring and lack character customisation. Humans have more faces to choose from. Better looking armor.

Ugh … the new charr hairstyles. -_-

Male asura voice overs makes me want to strangle every one of them… except for the one where they are asking for help while downed.

People actually repeat these? O_o

sephiroth.4217:

You need the actual wings I believe, and not a wardrobed version.

Unless those wings were handled differently from every other back item that is literally impossible if you have to be wearing at the same time as well.

It doesn’t have anything that I would expect if a game advertised itself as an ARPG.

Aidenwolf.5964:

Saudi.5320:

I’m not sure if it’s a bug or it’s supposed to be this way, but I can’t change the stats on an ascended breather in the Mystic Forge like I can with another ascended piece of armor or weapon. Is this a bug Anet or is supposed to be this way? Anyone else have this problem?

Backpiece trinkets and breather are all treated the same. Build the Zerker one and never look back.

More like ignore the breather and never look back. There is no underwater raid and the underwater fractal doesn’t go up high enough so is no need for an ascended breather in any content.

On several you are better of selling the materials and buying from the TP anyway. You’ll end up with more gold.

Zera Allimatti.2541:

Not going to happen, unfortunately. ArenaNet does not have the time or resources to do this. They’re focusing on LS3 and the next raid wings. After 3 years and no changes to small things like this, it’s safe to say it will never happen. I gave up on emotes a long time ago. I don’t even use them anymore because of it. ArenaNet knows this, that’s why they won’t dedicate resources to something that most players probably don’t use. Remember that the RP community is very small and is very much a niche player base.

Speaking of a lack of emotes and raids … does Vale Guardian seem a bit lifeless to anyone else?