Guild Wars 2

That is effectively the same unless you have a bunch of the gated stuff stockpiled.

The point of any game is entertainment(unless it happens to be your job as well, esports, streaming, whatever). So if you are not entertained then you should probably go do something else instead.

That isn’t a latest patch thing. That bug has been around for an extremely long time. When it gets really bad you actually get sent to LA.

The Dungeon Frequenter chest adds an additional 62s50c per path … due to how easy most of the dungeons have become due to other changes this does not seem all the far out of line.

The actual cost of leveling weaponsmith will probably be less since it is fairly easy to get +80% crafting boost.

That implies people would read the manuals if they existed. That doesn’t seem likely when they don’t even bother reading the tooltips that already exist.

holodoc.5748:

Warcry.1596:

What am I missing? I dont understand what is broken

I have a Silver Fed so I’m curious

The dialog that appears when any of the salvage-o-matic gizmos are used fills up the entire height of the screen making it impossible to click on the buttons bellow to salvage stuff.

Happens regularly to me on my copper salvage-o-matic since the last patch.

It is a bit annoying but not actually impossible but it might just depend on what resolution you play at. I ran into it yesterday in Bitterfrost Frontier. There was still around a quarter of the button sticking out that could be clicked.

There is always the Radiant Backguard … although obtainable is somewhat debatable for that one.

Ze Dos Cavalos.6132:

i use that wep on necro when I do underwater fractal and the shark triggers like 90% of the time.
Every skill triggers the shark, auto attack included..
The shark triggers with critical hits, my necro is viper and I get the shark animation all the time hehe makes the fractal more enjoyable when I see hundreds of sharks bitting the jellyfish boss lol
Its the best underwater legendary imo, much better than the others underwater wep

Not on every skill. #3 does not trigger the shark. There isn’t any class that triggers the shark with every skill. Every class does get a shark on at least one skill though. Ranger is probably worst off in that regard but one of its skills already comes with its own shark and another has a jellyfish.

Hmm it was 1000? I guess I forgot a 0 :p

Also “completed” means after you have gotten the letter and went to talk to the pale tree not just finish making the weapon.

You don’t change it in the forge. You change it by talking to the NPC in your home instance. It cost 100 unbound magic

SkyFallsInThunder.8257:

I think they drop more from the guild comms stuff than the ley-line stuff. A lot more. At least that’s how it drops for me.

It’s the same item. They stack together.

Astralporing.1957:

The nodes wouldn’t need to be all that common. The consumption of those resources is still massive, so adding few nodes here and there would not make them worthless.

As for impacting the prices – yes, that’s the idea behind a farm. As i said already, the farm that does not impact prices is a failed design.

and presumably they aren’t going to replicate Pagga’s cluster of elder wood nodes either …

Annonrae.3681:

Khisanth.2948:

Annonrae.3681:

I’d like to know how Anet thinks anyone playing outside of US prime time is every going to get the Shard or the Watchtower PoI now. I tried to help people get up there, tagged up and all…and we were five. And that’s after putting our group up in LFG and advertising in map chat. Needless to say, we didn’t even make it halfway up the hill.

There are actually two places you can get the shard from near that tower. One is further up and fairly close the back route.

I’l keep that in mind, thanks for the hint.

Still, I’ll take today’s disaster as an indication that the area is pretty much dead. I’ve been running various alts through Doric for shard farming, and over the last couple of days I haven’t seen a single comm or mentor tag in that area. :/

As far as I can tell it’s been like that since the engi farm anyway so this isn’t much of a change.

It depends on where you are standing. The lava pit looks like a circle but it seems to be more of an oval. The center of the platform is further than the two sides. I can attack it with axe on necro and shortbow on thief so that definitely doesn’t require 1200 range since those are both 900 range.

Annonrae.3681:

I’d like to know how Anet thinks anyone playing outside of US prime time is every going to get the Shard or the Watchtower PoI now. I tried to help people get up there, tagged up and all…and we were five. And that’s after putting our group up in LFG and advertising in map chat. Needless to say, we didn’t even make it halfway up the hill.

There are actually two places you can get the shard from near that tower. One is further up and fairly close the back route.

Have you ever thought about how you would have to be holding your weapon in order for it to look like that?

Ayrilana.1396:

Adding nodes would add too much supply without any effort. Well, actually, maybe it could work if they did some gauntlet that relied on personal skill to access the nodes along the path which players couldn’t bypass with mesmer portals. It would of course need to be timegated.

and then it would be yet another failure. Reminds me of the blooming passiflora node in ember bay guarded by at least one veteran bristleback along with a bunch of non-vets

Kaltyn of Torbins Deep.2946:

Nowhere else in the game that I can think of do you consistently have as many mobs that respawn that fast, so Anet didn’t have any experience with that combination of mechanics. So they get a point for lacking experience with the combination, but they lose a point for apparently not brainstorming about the consequences – and the possible counters – of that combination.

You mean besides all the other previous incidents of people AFKing with pets and minions? Those were happening long before Lake Doric came out.

Faaris.8013:

Raine.1394:

With GW2 combat, from the beginning almost, often the only lesson to learn is that you shouldn’t have entered combat. Entering combat was your only mistake. And then you die.

That is simply not true. Yesterday I could literally watch people learning at Golem Mark II. You died because of electric fields on the ground? Oh, better move out of them next time. Ah, red circle, I know what to do. Oh kitten, even bigger red circle, so I have to dodge twice in a row, better save up my endurance. Alright, so this machine gun circle shower again, get closer to the golem. Now the rotation starts again…

People learn at Golem? Hard to believe. Too dead people on a consistent basis. GW2 would be growing at an incredible rate if it was getting that many new people all the time.

zealex.9410:

rush is quite the well telegraphed attack tho :/

It can be or it can just appear out of left field

For that sort of thing you should submit a ticket https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Cercie.1025:

lokh.2695:

I bet they could upgrade the Trebs with some Ley-Line tech to fire all the way to Bitterfrost if they wanted to.

^ This right here. I question the decision making that made leather farming necessary and then punishing those who do it. All the while still ignoring the farming that is even more AFK than engineers ever were.

Make up your mind Anet.

Consistent inconsistency is perfectly normal around here.

Benjamin Arnold.3457:

Khisanth.2948:

speaking of lazy design …

Blinds and blocks are very useful when enemies are enraging, but yeah those numbers are too high :P We avoid doing significant balance changes without a proper rework to go with it.

That is actually not from Enraged if you mean https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mistlock_Instability:_Adrenaline_Rush .

It was a scale 66 so only Last Laugh and Flux Bomb and the mob was at full health anyway but it is lv82.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Don’t some of the boosters improve PvP reward track gain? I’m sure there was something like that I saw on one of them. (Not that I used it, so I could be misremembering, and it only applies to WvW.)

The exp and celebration/birthday boosters applies to both.

The animation and the AoE shape have nothing to do with each other as easily seen when you apply quickness and use the skill.

Sojourner.4621:

I have either solo’d or duo’d every HP in HoT for the first two maps (220 points alone, leaving you with only 20 more to get, or 210 if you feel like skipping Batlh which is REALLY the only unreasonable one to solo in most cases and leaving you to find three instead).

Balth can be done without killing the champ. The really unreasonable one would be the mushroom in TD under Rata Novus.

Benjamin Arnold.3457:

Traveller.7496:

I don’t subscribe to the thought that something needs to be complex to be challenging. It’s the lazy way of design.

We don’t subscribe to that notion either. I do believe however that it is acceptable for some fractals to be more complex than others, especially ones that are part of an important arc. It is also true that a more complex challenge is not necessarily a lazy design. What is most important to us is that each fractal provides a unique and interesting challenge, and we have to be aware that not every challenge will appeal to every player.

speaking of lazy design …

Relic.2136:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Khisanth.2948:

What the collections offer is smoke and mirrors to hide the total cost.

As for grind … well that is all on you. If you want to rush it then yeah that is going to require some grind.

The OP is saying they like the smoke, they like the mirrors. What they don’t like is just coming up with mats for no reason.

I would go further and say that the “smoke & mirrors” are the collections I did NOT like – the silly master crafting ones that just had you dump a stupid amount of materials. Collections that take you out into the world I would not classify as smoke/mirrors at all, but that’s just my opinion. :-)

It looks like the smoke and mirrors did an extremely good job since you seem to have forgotten the other tiers that requires ascended materials. Such as the deldrimor steel ingots that go into making the flasks for HOPE’s t3 collection.

Oh also exclusive to the HoT legendary is the recipe sheets. “Oh looks like I got all the materials, lets just toss them into the forg… NOPE looks like I need to spend another 80g on recipe sheets first -_-”.

http://ttsgamers.com/event-calendar/ for NA

Install http://www.teamspeak.com/downloads.html#client while for easier coordination.

Relic.2136:

I didn’t like these, but there are other collections that took me out into the world to collect frozen water samples, chunks from ice elementals, and stuff like that. I loved those, and they felt like they made sense, thematically!

In many cases they just reused existing content. It’s not very interesting if you’ve already done those things a dozen times already. In some cases multiple collections also overlap. Nice if you are doing them in parallel. Potentially a bit annoying when done in serial.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I use it all the time.

My main complaint it that targeting doesn’t lock so it’s easy to lose target, especially if there’s a lot of mobs close together but otherwise I really like it.

Anything involving frequent movement is not that great either.

Then there is trying to attack things above you although that is mostly a WvW problem.

Seera.5916:

Khisanth.2948:

The collections for the precursors are often more costly than just straight up buying. Then on top of that you often have to do other stuff too like Dry Top for the geodes or various fractals or wait around for events.

What the collections offer is smoke and mirrors to hide the total cost.

As for grind … well that is all on you. If you want to rush it then yeah that is going to require some grind.

Short of the bugged event that I ran into, I’ve enjoyed the process to get Storm. I prefer long term goals that I can split into smaller chunks. Outright buying the precursor or gambling didn’t have any smaller chunks really.

I don’t care if it cost me more in time and/or gold to make it via the collections. I’ve enjoyed it a lot more than opening my wallet or spending ages grinding for gold or ages gambling.

See that is all fine up until someone is also complaining about grind. Grind grind grind and more grind but then extol the virtues of the method that requires more resources which logically speaking would require more time grinding to acquire.

Free accounts can not change worlds. If you are going to delete all characters then you might as well just create a new account.

The collections for the precursors are often more costly than just straight up buying. Then on top of that you often have to do other stuff too like Dry Top for the geodes or various fractals or wait around for events.

What the collections offer is smoke and mirrors to hide the total cost.

As for grind … well that is all on you. If you want to rush it then yeah that is going to require some grind.

What you are describing is what happens when Ground Targeting option is set to Instant.

The craziest thing is the skritt bottles. They track through dodging …

Just another case of GW2 being consistently inconsistent.

Will.9785:

Not true. At all. You can get the accessories and trinkets but armor rarely if ever drops.
You will get stuck at around level 50-55. You can’t go further because you don’t have enough slots for the agony resist. I speak from personal experience. The only way to go further is to start slotting +11s into your gear and that gets really expensive/dumb. I did tier 2 fractals (dailies plus others) for 3 months and only found 2 rings and 1 weapon during that time. No armor whatsoever.

Like I said before, a lot of of folks saying they get ascended gear like candy probably already have 1 or more ascended sets. You don’t actually start getting them with any degree of regularity (and even then its pretty kitten rare) until T4 fractals and raids (which I haven’t done but I’ve heard you can acquire them from there easily).

You can get all the way through t3 with just trinkets.
Trinkets provide 2(back) + 2 accessory + 6(rings) slots.

Using +9 infusions you get 90 AR. You can get another 15 Anguished Tear of Alba. Scale 75 which is the last in t3 requires 106. One AR short isn’t going to make a huge difference and you can just stick a +10 somewhere if you think it matters.

OriOri.8724:

Tag up (I think mentors can get a 10 man squad going, even without the commander tag?), post in LFG. Its not that hard, I know because I did it 2 days ago using this method. I just opened LFG, saw a squad going for prime, and joined them. Helped out with the pylons and we managed to kill it with just under a minute left on the timer.

Its not impossible to get a kill.

No need to be a mentor. Everyone can create a 10 person squad. You can even do that on a free account.

How many days do you need to decide? O_o

They are convenient items. Nice to have but in no way are they necessary. If you are in a situation where you need days to consider then you probably shouldn’t be wasting your money on these.

Friggarn.9451:

Azukas.1426:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Sarrs.4831:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

We need to update the loyalty pip description.

You need to earn at least 75 pips for 3 weeks in a row to earn the loyalty bonus. We wanted players to have to participate in skirmishes to be considered loyal.

Hello, I’m not quite clear on this.

So you need to get
75+ pips on week 1
75+ pips on week 2
75+ pips on week 3

And then so long as you remain on the server, you will get the loyalty bonus?
Or will the streak reset if you miss a week, and you need to do all 3 again?

Needing to earn 100+ pips weeks 1, 2 and 3 is correct. If you miss a week you will need to do all 3 again.

*Edit: It should be 100 pips not 75. So you need to complete all of Wood Tier for 3 weeks.

I dont agree with that i’m sorry.

Just being on the same server for 3 weeks should net you the bonus pip.

I agree. It was supposed to discourage transfers, not stop people from taking a week off. Please change this.

I guess they meant loyalty to the game/game mode and not your server. At least there is still Outnumbered?

Fallesafe.5932:

Well… because it suits me very well, and I think it’s an awesome game. I’m not trying to salvage a game that I think is broken. I’m trying to suggest a way to make a great game even better. And it doesn’t have to be through ANY sort of an item treadmill at all. The suggestion I made in the last post was to have stats that can only go so high (and never higher). But place a tiny portion of those stats in T4 fractals and the first raid wing.

You still have your ETERNAL stat-ceiling. But you also have a small incentive to push yourself through content that requires a lot of effort. So, the example I gave was that, if the highest you can get your unbuffed power was 3027… put gear accounting for 25 points of that total in T4 fractals, and gear accounting for 25 points of that total in the first raid wing.

So what happens after people complete that? Realize that you’ve just spent dev time to accomplish absolutely nothing?

kdaddy.5431:

Before if you saw a player with a shark or Phoenix finisher you knew they put work in to get those finishers. With shark needing 250,000 experience per level and now its 20,000.

Actually the only things that came to mind was ..

1) wow … someone at ANet can’t seem to do basic arithmetic
2) must have spent a lot of time grinding in custom arenas

Mogsterfortytwo.6712:

I’m also getting this; I can however perform the trick on command. I’m using the Steelseries GW2 mouse and always get the problem when pressing mouse 4 or mouse 5 (bound to jump & utility 1 respectively). Obviously not good and stops play much beyond logging in for daily rewards. Also copied to the in-game bug report (under ‘beta’ – as there is actually no way to label as a control issue)

Sounds like your mouse buttons might be set to do some other thing by default.

Gayle.1807:

I am playing… it’s just my lil tushie isn’t on the chair. In fact, most of the time when I step away…afk…I am not really gone… I check my screen often so my turrets stay up.

And, I do farm by running around and salvaging. But, in the summer I can’t farm in high end areas because … this time of year…it’s very difficult / time consuming to find a spot to not die. I have to run until I can find a nook or such – so, mid-farm…go find safe spot (if I go to char select, I’m killed when I re-log), then when I get back I have to back-track to continue the farm. So, I lose a lot of game time.

I know I’m probably more of an exception, but it was nice to be able to go to the bathroom and not have to find a “hidey hole”.

That only take two key press. F12, Enter. Alternatively … dying doesn’t really matter.

You can also buy the greatsword with CoF tokens.

That aside don’t buy that 5g exotic greatsword. Buy an Ebonblade. Same stat but saves you 2 gold. Arguably nicer looking too. It actually looks like a sword instead of a paddle.

DeceiverX.8361:

Stand The Wall.6987:

condis in gw1 didn’t do near as much damage.

I think condi damage should be supplementary.

It originally was.

Before they introduced the Condition damage stat on gear.

Condition damage has been on gear since launch… also got a screenshot of a sword dated July 20 2012 with +7 power and +5 condition damage so that should be from one of the betas.

If you want to delete a thread that you started just delete the first post.

kdaddy.5431:

Before the big nerf to PvP, PvP used to give unique finishers /rank and titles for completing X level.

Finishers are still there …

AliamRationem.5172:

I like the way GW2 works and I don’t propose we change it. However, all design decisions come with consequences and I can agree that the lack of a treadmill, while a great idea for many reasons, can make the game feel a bit aimless and unrewarding at times.

Really? In what way is a gear treadmill rewarding?

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Guilds are “allowed” to be small. There’s nothing that prevents a solo guild from building up a guild hall — many people have done so. I’m sure those numbers are a far cry from those who had ‘maxed’ guilds before HoT, because back then, you could buy all the upgrades, with coin.

Not just before HoT. Before February 26, 2013 because after that various upgrades requires guild merit which are similar to favor.