Guild Wars 2

I like it the way it is. Each part is short enough that doing it on another character isn’t that bad.

I’ve had this bug for ages and I hate it. It’s like they tried to adjust audio levels for 3d sound, but it doesn’t work at all. I wish I could just turn it off and hear npcs all at equal volume again regardless of whether I move away from them or have my camera angled towards them.

I got a white armor (berserkers apprentice coat) from it too. Didn’t think much of it, because I think I got the rares as well. I think. Sorry, I don’t remember, just now that you mention it… I’m so used to opening boxes and having junk come out, it would have never occurred to me to make a post on the forum about it.

Suddenly I understand why I was supposed to get excited about the armor someone linked in chat. I was on a male character, and they clearly were not. I would prefer butterflies for everyone too.

Ooh, so you can cycle through them and just not use the blue and green ones when they pop? I was thinking I’d have to bring a friend to burn him down in one go.

kitten .9460:

edit: actually now that I think about it, dedicating an item to your HoM did not even soulbind it, just not allow them to dedicate it to theirs so you could get cheaper priced items if they were ded cuz at that point you can only use them not collect as achievement.

Weapons were soul bound after dedicating, minis were not. (Are not.)

I played gw1 for ~1k hours total which is how long it took me to fill HoM. I did get a froggy scepter, with the wrong stat so I couldn’t use it. Having everything in gw1 tradeable saved me a ton of pain, cause I could do easy/fun things (dailies) to buy annoying or tedious things (200 zkeys. Think I earned ~40 myself playing during bonus times.)

I understand why they made some things in gw1 untradeable, but it doesn’t really help unlucky people. I have average luck when it comes to things I can sell, and terrible luck for account bound things. No fossils, no teq hoard, no ghost dog. I tried to get someone to take the bet that I would get a full stack of spoons before getting a hoard, but no one in my guild would bet against the rng.

Shaogin.2679:

• I recently joined a pug for story mode and then randomly started voting to kick people. To my surprise, all of my votes succeeded until there was just me and one other, at which point I left the party.

Can’t stop laughing. That reminds me of my own personal worst dungeon confession, when some random person found in lfg switched to an alt at the end of cof p1 without asking and I just completely lost the will to live and dropped dead on the spot. This naturally led to a wipe. They came back with their 80, we got the boss down to maybe half, and they logged again, which again caused all the fight to just drain out of me. Their alt came back to another wipe and rather than, you know, stay and do the dungeon properly they rage quit.

I haaaate when people swap to an alt at the end, whether they ask or not. Buy a dungeon if you want to level your alt.

Leveled them all because I could. Still craft to save/make gold, mostly timegated things here and there. Sometimes ascended items. I made ascended mawdrey and crafted/gathered everything myself. They are also needed to craft account bound legendary gifts, if you want to make it instead of buying the finished weapon.

My favorite thing about crafting is avoiding the trading post. Want something craftable? Got the mats? Go right ahead. Who cares what it costs? I don’t even like to think about it. Sometimes I do work out if crafting is better than buying. Like I bought exotic inscriptions to craft ascended inscriptions, because buying was cheaper than crafting for exotic and other way around for ascended. But for little things like the halloween food collection I find it more satisfying/fun to make it myself. If/when I get around to the weapon set collections, I’ll craft them too.

Malediktus.9250:

The Mini Monkey King is market manipulation by Anet. The September feature patch raised the droprate by a very large amount.

I got 2 in ~2.5h the other day. And a tonic. Still no fossils though, speaking of things that I would like to see not be account bound any more.

I feel less bad about all the times I forgot to use the potion in this dungeon now.

-No matter how much I try on my thief I cannot utilize its core functionality well, and always end up playing it like a straight up swashbuckler

Ahaha this is me except for the trying part. I dress him up like a swashbuckler too. ^__^ Pistol whip is the only skill you need! (Okay I use the blind too. Sometimes.)

I don’t like to ping my gear for dungeons because I follow the meta except for runes. If I could cheaply and easily recover a rune set it would be different, but as it is now the idea of overwriting 70g of runes next time the meta changes sticks in my craw.

Hair kits! Thanks, will hopefully remember to buy them when I get home.

The sale was planned before the huge negative reaction to the updated gem exchange. Shame that people can’t get what they need right now, but the exchange rate is so terrible you have to ask how much you’d really be saving by converting for this sale anyway.

What’s on sale? I checked the bltp forum and can’t find anything about a sale.

You can do all paths of hotw in <45 min with an okay team. I’m sure it’s even faster with a great group. It’s sad that people hate p2 and p3 so much, because it makes finding this decent group that much harder. I like p2 more than p1.

I googled looking for tips on how to complete this achievement beyond the obviousand found solid gold in a guide that recommended doing every path of a dungeon every day, along with an entire pvp reward tier. Apparently it takes only a week to complete one dungeon collection if you start from zero! Hahahaaaa right.

I kind of soured on it after opening loads of chests and not getting a single fossil. I know I could get them guaranteed from pvp but I don’t enjoy pvp so I just gave up and do other things.

I saw this in the notes on patch day and have been enjoying it since. Just wanted to say thanks, cause it’s something I’d complained about before. I definitely noticed and appreciate it.

Iron
Celestial
Persephone
Midnight ice
Ancient silver

I had no idea it was so bad! I’ve been working on it since collections came out (really, since the wardrobe patch) and have developed a new appreciation for hotw p2 and p3, and reaffirmed that I don’t like pvp.

It did start to get boring, so I stopped for awhile, then switched class. Done three, making good progress on three more, kind of lagging on the last two cause they aren’t my favorites but I wouldn’t call it torture. Probably be done within the next month or so, unless I take another break from it. So yeah it’s taking a long time, so what? Just take a break if you get bored. Do something else, you’ll get it eventually.

I was hoping they would be more reasonable this year and they are! Thanks for the change.

It annoys me when people watch cutscenes. The issue is that very few people do, so it is expected that you will skip them by default. When something is the default, there is no need to put it in your lfg, when it isn’t standard you do. I never ever join groups that have “watching cutscenes” in the description because I don’t want to watch and don’t want to wait for anyone else to watch it either.

And I’m not the only one. Groups with “watching cutscenes” in the description can take a really long time to fill, but if you want to play with “nice people” that is what you are going to have to do.

It’s worth doing, but if you are new it is low priority. I think I started leveling crafting after I’d been playing for like a year. Now I have them all maxed and yes it’s nice to have, and very nice to never have to worry whether I’ll be able to make a particular thing (timegated crafting, legendary recipes). If you really like crafting go for it. I seem to recall that I did not enjoy leveling all those crafts, and found it sucked up a ton of gold that I would have rather spent on something else.

If you find crafting boosters use them.

Ok I Did It.2854:

In 2 years of playing ive seen 1 of these drop from a Heavy bag in Orr.

I have 5. Four from heavy moldy bags, and one from Mawdrey II. I about died from shock.

My man teacher told that story like it was an actual thing that happened. But his name wasn’t Johnny, it was Carl (Gauß). (It’s in the german version of Wikipedia but not the english one hmmmm.)

Dinks.2478:

I’ve never gotten a drop worth more than say 10g? 781 days and that is my reality.

This thread reinforces my feeling that despite no precursor drop, my luck is quite average. I don’t have any complaints about the current loot system to tell the truth. I do seem to be getting better stuff lately (more exotics and t6, some of the exotics are even valuable thanks to collections), though whether that is magic find, or doing the “right” things, or a general change or just same old rng, I couldn’t say. I know I’m not rich, but I don’t feel poor either. My best two drops ever by far were this last month and they each sold for about 70g. Before collections my best drop was worth 20g at the time. I like collections very much. (3k hours played, no flipping or farming.)

petrocksteve.8653:

To me, it means “I know how this is done in a PUG.” This is basic strategy and knowing how/where the boss is usually fought (in a PUG context).

Yes, this is how I think of it too. So I don’t join groups with exp for paths that I don’t actually know well, like cm p2 and cof p3. I’ve done them (cm p2 at least a dozen times), but if expected to take the lead I’d be clueless.

What I would like to see is an actual vote. Right now one person initiates the kick, another confirms, and there is no option for anyone else in the group to vote against the kick. If you don’t want them kicked you just have to wait and hope that no one else confirms before the timer runs out. There should be a check and an x, not only a check. If vote kicking waited for input from every other party member, it would work a lot better.

I get a lot from champ bags. You can open the chest at Dwayna temple once per day per character, only problem is finding it contested.

It’s insanely bad, and not only in dungeons. A full group is absolutely necessary when doing world bosses because dcs are so common, I had a lag spike while waiting for megadestroyer (pre event hasn’t even started iirc) and when things started moving again 3/5 members of my party were offline. I dc multiple times a day, in open world, in instances, during big boss fights, and while standing around on an empty map doing absolutely nothing (camping eye of zhaitan pre). I’d make a bug report but the only thing my dcs/crashes have in common is that I was playing gw2 at the time.

Thanks for this. I’ve been having problems with this new feature too.

I thought he was one of the easier bosses. The only times my groups had trouble (regardless of gear, sometimes he dies fast and sometimes slow) is the p1 final fight where his attacks aren’t telegraphed by huge red circles. There it helps to have someone healing if your dps is bad. Otherwise count 3 dodge works perfectly. It’s possible to dodge everything. I’ve been in groups where no one’s health goes down the entire fight.

I want one for my endless tonic(s). Not something I use every time I log in, but would be nice if every character could access it without a trip to the bank. I’d buy permabanker but it’s the same problem, need one for each character.

The frost wasp bug is incredibly annoying. It seems to have gotten worse lately, but that could just be the constant lag making it difficult to break the animation at just the right time.

Timberline Falls map completion on a Level 80 Elementalist. I opened a few chests but I did not include them, didn’t open champ bags. Didn’t include map completion items. This is only mob drops. Things my character can (technically) use in the top bag, things he can’t underneath.

It’s kind of horrifying. I mean, yes, I could play light classes all the time to get the best loot, but I don’t really want to. I didn’t notice it before because I usually salvage and sell as I go and most of my loot normally comes from chests which aren’t affected. I guess I’m happy to have gotten my fill of playing thief and ranger before this update.

Crucible of Eternity and Dwayna temple chest. I always have more charged than any other type, and this is where they come from.

The soulbound unsalvageable level rewards are an ok idea, but I think I mentioned they are unsalvageable. After all the complaining about unsalvageable karma, order, and wvw gear, they add more of it to the game. Why. Am I really going to level a character to 65 just to have a shot at salvaging 3 linen scraps? I hate unsalvageable gear.

I have been leveling since the patch but I’m cheating and using scrolls and tomes, so can’t say much about it. My character does seem quite strong, now that I’ve hit 60 and can use traveler runes so running around doing stuff is more fun.

KerryTT.4792:

A big bonus was I learned I was dodging wrong. I new something was wrong when I fought the Karka Queen. She would roll; I would dodge back and live, but many other players would die… it was awkward… But after the dodge tutorial, I am now doing it correctly. I let the Karka Queen kill me and wait to get rezzed, When the chest spawns, I dodge into it. I feel like a real pro now.

The dodge tutorial came up in the ui as something one of my lvl 80 chars should check out so I did it… I don’t feel that my results were as good as yours though, maybe I did it wrong.

raethe.1903:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Casmurro, I think I just said literally that I did not want the dungeon to be dumbed down. I said I want it to be more fun.

Mad Queen, if Arah isn’t fun for you, why isn’kitten What would you do differently? Maybe we could all come up with some ideas for new, different dungeons that are varied enough to be fun for everyone.

Not Mad Queen, but for me it’s the skipping. I hate the skipping. So long, so much cc, takes forever to get a “perfect run” where the entire team makes it to the boss… and then if you wipe you have to do it all again. And if you kill the boss, it’s on to the next skip. Yay. Yeah, I’m a regular buyer. I’ve done every path at least once the right way, that’s good enough for me.

Tom is correct, there are many people running Arah and it’s not hard to find a group. I see lots of groups while browsing for paths to buy, and they fill quickly. Granted most of them are “exp only melee lupi 7k ap” but there are enough that are just the path number. I don’t buy because I can’t find a group. There are a lot of people doing the dungeon, not just sellers. At least in EU.

I wouldn’t petition to have it changed, obviously many people like it as is. I’ve had fun in Arah before, some nice guild runs. Don’t like it, leave it alone. Or buy. You can get skins/tokens from pvp anyway, so it’s not like you are claiming something no one could get if they didn’t personally run the dungeon and there were no path sellers.

Dungeon armor and weapons. I got totally triggered by the dungeon collections, so I’ve been obsessively running dungeons to unlock the skins. I’m at almost a whole stack of dark matter now, it’s just a byproduct for me. As is the gold, kinda. I forgot how much gold you can get doing dungeons… which you could then use to buy more exotics.

Down to my last six blsk.

I finally invested in some runes of speed for my guardian. So worth it. Whatever I’m sacrificing to have the speed boost is not noticeable. Before I would unconsciously push harder on the movement controls trying to make her run faster, which was noticeable after a short time playing. So frustrating.

They are pretty and you get to feel very majestic running around with all the other people who have them.

It’s funny that you consider two drops in your account lifetime “unlucky”. Two more than I’ve had. I’ve said that if I make a third legendary I’ll wait for a drop, but I expect that statement to go down in history along with “pfft legendaries who needs them” and “more than one? Nah.” I was really surprised how much I enjoyed having them and the shine hasn’t really worn off months later. Right before equipping I thought I would regret it (both times) but I didn’t and don’t. So that’s the big benefit for me, shiny, fun, nice to have.

I have chop it all and frost wasp, and really don’t like frost wasp and regret buying it. It looks cool, but it has a bug or something where the character will get stuck for a second or two after the animation ends. You can end it sooner and avoid the bug, but it’s really annoying having to even think about it.

The idea of starting a second account from scratch is incredibly unappealing to me. Aside from having friends in both regions, I can’t think of any reason for it that could be worth the trouble. Unless you play A LOT and really would do world bosses or dungeon paths more than once a day. I’d rather do something else if it’s at that point though.

In all honesty, whatever it is that oneshots you in the corridor with the golems in se1. Random blue light? It gets me more often than it should.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

However, I haven’t opened enough sub-exotic bags to determine whether those can drop named exotics. I suspect™ they do not.

They do. I got a named exotic from a white champ bag once.

I don’t want him to die. I like his personality. The quality of the original ps is not the fault of this one character!

I hadn’t done fractals for months so I was a bit nervous. But it was fine! The group was mostly other semi-experienced people, and we rolled 4/4 on ones I actually like doing. Yeah, I quit doing them because they take so long and I don’t like the randomness. It was quite pleasant being forced back in though in the end.

I wore a Firstborn Coat (sylvari medium t3). At least it was expensive? Partway through I thought maybe I should unequip my weapons, but wasn’t sure if there was going to be a surprise attack, so I didn’t bother. Be prepared!

This reminds me that I notice and enjoy how the dialog is slightly tweaked depending on your race. Someone at the party made a comment to my character about silly humans, and it was like, oh yeah, my character is not human.

And I loved chatting with Lord Faren’s stalker. Laughed out loud at the bit with the wall calendar.

I’m thinking “wait until foxfires are under 10 silver and there’s no appreciable premium on crafting time gated Piqant Plant Food”.

I’m also thinking “it sure uses a lot of storage space while you wait”.

I bought the recipe on day 2 and have been crafting and selling it every day since. It’s more profitable than selling the clusters directly. I quit selling clusters and have enough hoarded to make the ascended version.

I have almost everything else I need to put it all together (short 2 fractal relics), it’s just that selling the plant foods every day is a super easy way to get gold. I’ll take the gold now, and make the backpiece later.

I’m the only one who doesn’t trust the Pale Tree? Probably just applying human values to a non human character, but having so many children and really only caring about the oldest ones rubs me the wrong way.

Oh man, haven’t done fractals for months and only have 3 relics I’ve been holding onto. After seeing the thread I checked the lfg in game but it’s dead. I’ll try again in the evening, if there are no groups then either I’ll try starting my own. I forgot everything though and was never that into it. I think I’m level 14.