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I took the hit and bought the mystic binding agent for science. I was too greedy hoping for a quick buck in hoping that it would allow you to transform x lodestone into y lodestone. Turns out it’s a replacement to Elonian Wine (with another meaningless feature) and as such, I’m out 10 laurels.
Oh well, I’m just gonna collect them now.
Wow, i would have thought it was a guaranteed promotion to lodestones, not a converter. Can’t you take cores and promote them to lodestones using that?
It is more then a replacement.
At the lowest lever it replaces 4 bottles of wine, then 3 at the next tier, 2 at the next and from cores to lodestones it replaces 1.
I wanted to craft the firebringer. I can get enough crystaline dust and orichalcum by farming that I won’t have to buy much of them but the molten lodestones were a pain. Buying cores and creating lodestones means that I can get a 105g weapon for around 10g.
Woot
most of the experienced groups I have been with didn’t need the way point anyway. In fact, that was why they were able to skip content in the first place. Because they knew they would not have to wp and then run back through mobs.
The ones who needed the wp are almost always those unfamiliar with the dungeon.
So….if it is Anet’s sole goal with this change to make sure inexperienced people never get to try out the dungeons, then it is working brilliantly.
if that is not their goal, well I would use the phrase, “most boneheaded change ever,” if it were not for the fact I might get an infraction.
The game only remembers the custom names of the four pets in the current array; names are reset to the default name if they are swapped out of the cycle.
When you transmute an item you are combining two items in to a single item. You get to choose which of the two “skins” you want, which of the two sets of stats you want and which of the two upgrades upgrades you want (if the items in question have any upgrades). Then, when you press “transmute” you get an item with the three options you chose and the original two items are deleted.
Losing the items is the price you pay for transmutation. If you did not want the level 16 stats then you should have chosen the level 60 ones.
The reason no wp res if someone was still alive worked in GW1 was that the dungeons were mostly well designed with creative ways to take on the various bosses and the ability to set different builds for different environments.
The dungeons in GW2 just seem to be the same boring slog with different graphics and high hit point bosses.
It’s going to take some major dungeon redesign to make this change palatable.
As far as I know the Wintersday mystery boxes don’t contain the Unbreakable Choir Bell, as far as I know it’s just the giant Wintersday gifts.
Each mystery box gave personalized wintersday gifts which could contain the bell – although that was probably the more expensive way to try and get one as opposed to buying gifts at the tp
Not a bug. Because of clipping, that armor hides the shoulder armor automatically. If you look at this armor’s description there is a note about that.
There are one or two others that do that as well. At least one of the sylvari cultural armors (the one with wings I think) also hides the shoulder armor.
in plains of ashford during the crush cubs event
“you got your moa jerky in my yak butter” “you got your yak butter on my moa jerky” or something along that line – ala the old reeses peanut butter cup commercial.
The Windmill King who mistakes you for a dragon has to be a reference to Don Quixote
The npc by the chef station in the home borderlands wvwvw also changes. Gender, race and everything may be different each time you visit.
whahahahaha
love it – my humungous charr with a toy pop gun that shoots a cork on a string.
Think i’m gonna play him a lot more now!
Thanks
Tixx’s Infinirarium: A- Liked it a lot but the repetitions got a little long
Toypocalypse: A loved it
Snowball fighting: A was surprised by this. I thought I was going to hate it and loved it instead. Kept on playing after getting my achievements
Bell Choir activity: A enjoyed it too
Jumping puzzle: didn’t do it. I stink at jumping puzzles so can’t say
Gem store: C- Excellent new skins and clothes but really bad decisions to make the minis rng when it costs real money for the boxes.
decorations, in game toy skins, music, boxes dropping in zones, snowball fights in la etc – A+
Gonna just add my vote of thanks – very nice to correct things so quickly and more than made up for the errors
Thank you and good job!!!
I got my pve present but I want to say that I do think it was just silly to make a pve version and a pvp version and then expect people to choose one of the two without knowing the rules. That is just plain bad bad planning.
Just going to through this in there, since I have the same problem. I looked on here yesterday, and seen a bunch of people talking about it. Got annoyed, and got off for the rest of the day. I just get on and found 3 unlocked black lion chests from GW2 Customer Support in the Mail… Is this there way of saying, ‘Sorry, we ****ed up, so here, have something completely irrelevant to Wintersday!’?
Nope
there was also a bug in which some blc’s only had 2 items. the extra unlocked blc’s are a correction for that bug.
I’m betting the look you were trying to keep was the starter elementalist jewel.
Yes, it disappears and, yes, they have said that is a bug and they will eventually get around to fixing it.
According to the official response in another thread this was done become of “CLIPPING ISSUES IN THE PREVIEW WINDOW”?????
An incredibly useful feature was removed because of clipping issues in a preview pane that could be solved by the player merely removing the piece of clothing the previewed item clipped with?
NOT A GOOD MOVE!
Please bring it back.
Just tried
the mini soldier won’t combine with stuffying
The only part I don’t like is the RNG/account bound minis
As for everything else – A rousing success. I love it!
Nice skins – fun games – good loot
A most excellent job – TY
This change is really driving me nuts.
Along with all the reasons mentioned by others so far…
So many of the icons give no idea what the armor actually looks like. Too many armors (especially at karma vendors) use the same icon for different looks. So if I’m getting a piece to transmute to another armor class I want to be able to see what I am buying!
I see no logical sense behind this change.
If people were buying the wrong armor then, good grief, just put in a sell back option!
That would be logical.
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I would like to know what the reasoning was behind not letting us preview armor we can’t wear.
It would make sense if the different professions had different models – but you have have the same look for every body and features for every profession.
A lot of times I would preview different kinds of armor because I have 2 or 3 toons that look very similar and I didnt want to have to keep switching.
Other times I previewed armor with one tune although I intended it for another BECAUSE ALL THE ICONS LOOK ALIKE and I wanted to make sure this was indeed the piece of armor I was looking for.
Frankly, i see no logical reason to have changed this. They let us buy armor for another armor class and transmute it over (which i think is really cool and appreciate very much) but now we have no idea what it looks like until we have already bought it and transmuted it or have found a webpage somewhere with the picture.
As far as I can see it only introduces inconvenience.
Not the most sensible move I ever saw.
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I don’t think you have to do the pvp tutorial to get to la. just go to the mists and run through the pink portal and you will be la.
Also you can choose to click on the little tower and go to any of the wvwvw worlds. Near you will be 4 portals. the one kind of by itself and pink will take you to la.
Or, I think if you head to the far south of the instance there is a control panel with a dungeon icon over it you can interact with to leave
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I 100% agree with all three suggestions.
Make the minis unbound so that those of us who have extra can give or sell to those who have none (leave the quaggan account bound if you wish – though I would have no objection to it being unbound as well).
And learn from this for future events.
People do like to gamble so I don’t object to RNG – But if you are going to have RNG in which an item is obtained by gambling, then make the chest/lottery widely available through game play ONLY. Those things sold by the gem store should never be used for such a purpose.
It is the combination of money plus RNG that makes people feel cheated and frustrated.
Be honest with people up-front and sell them honest goods – you will have a far more loyal and long lasting player base in the long run because of it.
(Just want to add:
On a practical note, making the minis account bound is shooting ones self in the foot money-wise.
Those who are willing to spend actual cash on the chance of getting the minis will stop once they have the one(s) they want. There is no reason to buy more boxes. The chance of something like a perm-hair kit is too low of an incentive to keep buying. But if people could sell unwanted minis then there is more incentive to buy a few extra boxes and take a chance on one of those extra-rare items because you know you can at least sell any extra minis you get.)
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I would like to have the minis be trade-able as well.
For some reason I was lucky and got 8 from the 30 mystery chests i bought. Even after making the quaggan I have two extra snowmen I can’t use and would like to give them away.
They left out Warhorns this time around too.
which is really kind of odd because it seems a toy tin horn would have been an obvious skin. Still, love everything else.
really amazing stuff – all the weapons skins and town clothes skins – very pleased indeed!
Thanks for the reply, yes i am still an armoursmith, if i wasn’t i wouldn’t be able to access the bank through the crafting bench UI
You can actually access the bank from any crafting station whether you are that crafting profession or not.
No
I am saying that when you did this they USED to be labeled “soulbound” but work like account bound. This made people think it was a bug.
As of the last update ANet changed it so that when you do this it now says plainly “account bound.”
That is a pretty clear message from ANet that not only were they aware this could be done but that they do NOT consider it a bug.
Good job on ruining it for us.
Now this will be fixed and people will need to spend loads of money for the same thing.
Or cant use some weapons/armor on other characters what they normaly cant get.
Calm down.
It’s not a bug. It’s intended to work this way.
Clearing up a couple of things
1: Yes, you can transmute a soul bound item on to a non-soul bound item. The new item will be account bound and can be worn by any of the characters on your account. (it will become soulbound on use if it is a piece of armor or other such item)
2: This is not a bug. It used to be that the resulting item said “soulbound” but worked like an account bound item. In the last big update, however, it was changed so that the new item actually says “account bound” so obviously they intended this to work this way.
3: You can do this with cultural armor but the resulting account bound item can only be used by a character of the race the cultural armor was designed for.
4: If you transmute soul bound onto soul bound the result will be soulbound rather than account bound.
5: You do not have to delete the alt if you do not want to and deleting the alt will not un-soulbind the item.
I enjoyed the event very much and don’t really mind that some got great drops and I only got mediocre – I don’t like the looks of the legendaries anyway.
But, to be honest, having every player on every server have to play the event at the exact same time was just asking for trouble and was a very very very bad call.
If you can’t figure out a way to stagger servers then please don’t do any more of these. Just don’t. I would rather be able to play with my friends and not have them constantly disconnecting than have the event at all.
(OK so people could change to a second server and get a second 3hr fight with some nice loot – they can only change once ever 7 days so it’s not like they will be server hopping all day)
And nothing was asked about the ascended gear – just freeze it where it is at and NEVER NEVER NEVER add any more stat progression. It stinks.
I did not play GW2 until just after Factions came out but, as I recall, it was quite some time before everyone began congregation in a single place for a single activity. Everywhere you went you could find people grouping for missions or farming amber/jade for the high end gear.
Now in only 3 months GW2 has essentially limited the bulk of players to LA as they spam lfm fractals lvl (x).
There is now a gear grind for two new skinned back items with better stats and two rings with better stats but that add nothing to the look of the character.
It seems the exact opposite of exploring the world and grinding from looks rather than stats upon which this game was supposed to be built.
Cheaper to develop in the short term, yes. Better for the game, and, ultimately, for profit in the long run? I highly doubt it.
I liked the event itself but I have to agree that it was implemented very badly.
Having all servers participating at the exact same time pretty well guaranteed connection problems and lag as well as eliminating the ability of those in many time zones to participate.
If they can’t set up a schedule in which different servers host the event at time slots most convenient for the major time zones then, as much as I enjoyed the actual event, I would rather not have the events at all.
the hilarious thing is after all these ascended items are revealed, theres NOTHING special about them at all. Which puts GW2 on the category of gear grind games at the very lowest quality too. Why NOT play wow, the gear grind actually has QUALITY.
Yeah. I found that ironic also.
I think this wound up being a way they could put in another tier without actually doing much that would cost them money. No need to design new looking gear – just add stats to rings (which doesn’t require a game model). The only actually new model I saw was the quiver. It would have been far closer to their stated design and much more appreciated by players if they had paid the salaries to have their art department design new cool looking armor and weapons (goodness knows we’ve been asking for some variety in the types of armor) with the same stats as exotic as the tier between exotic and legendary.
Now that I would have liked.
but that would have taken time and cash investment.
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Honestly just debating if I want to log on this afternoon or not for the lost shores kick off.
I was looking forward to it when they first announced it. Had all my exotic gear on my main and was building on a second. Also starting to look at collecting stuff for a legendary some time way way in the future and looking forward to doing it.
A new dungeon sounded like a good idea, especially one that got harder the further you went but gave decent rewards for lower levels too.
Invited a friend for the free trial weekend with the intention of playing together and introducing him to the game.
And I will say I do like some of the bug fixes and the upped rewards for bosses in dungeons and was pleased with the progression it would allow my to gradually outfit all my toons with exotic gear.
But as of this afternoon, everyone will be wanting to do the new dungeon and it is going to require the new gear to get in there with the promise of even more higher stat gear late – plus legendaries to be buffed.
So what promised to be a fun afternoon is now a rat race to get new gear to participate in content and my gradual saving for my legendary now becomes something that feels like it “has to be done.”
Meh – this is exactly the kind of game I don’t want, a game where you accomplish achievements only to have more “progressive” achievements (and in the form of rings etc at the moment, which have absolutely no visible effect and value ONLY in stats) thrust on you rather than choosing multiple paths to personal satisfaction (ie – enjoying working for looks instead of slaving for stats)
Mark Twain: “Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
When play starts to feel like work it’s time to give it a rest.
So, I’m thinking I’ll go watch a video this afternoon and check in tomorrow to see how things are.
so – let me get this straight
Chris Whitehead gave us the official word from ANet to reassure us that they are going to do exactly what so many people don’t want them to do?
Not sure that’s the best move in the world.
New looks – very good idea.
New and higher stats – very bad move.
Just read through the article linked from the game log-in. My first thought – No, ANet, No!
The thing about infusion in GW1 was that it wasn’t “progression.” You could get it as part of the story line. Even if you were playing WiK, it wasn’t too hard to run and get your armor infused. Plus, if you happened to forget, the story line still wasn’t impossible. I had at least one character that finished the Battle for LA without a single piece of infused armor.
But now, in GW2 we have to use the mystic forge to get this gear? And its rarity is somewhere between exotic and legendary? Gah! That stupid forge has dropped only 1 exotic for me out of 50 lvl 75 and above rares I put into it. Somehow I am supposed to get a full set of gear that is rarer than that in order to play new content adequately?
Blech – just blech
Not to mention the fact that, if it has better stats than exotic, eventually we will be forced to get it to play even standard content if we are to feel like we are really contributing to the team and not just tagging along.
No! No! No! No! and No!
This is not progression – is just a rat wheel.
Oh wow I really hope they do NOT do this.
the progression is already obvious – slightly better stats on gear to help with a slightly harder dungeon. But now that stats are better more difficult content will be required on a broader basis to keep the game interesting. But then even better gear will have to be given – followed by even more difficult content.
And BAM – gear grind wars
NO ! Just NO!
If that starts happening I’m out.
question on dat file for invite a friend weekend
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Ah – NVM
They had said we would have more information as the event drew near. Now they are saying the refer a friend option will be turned on today. Assuming that goes through correctly that answers my question
please close thread – thanks.
question on dat file for invite a friend weekend
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Yes, I realize you can use the .exe to download the dat – but it is getting the exe to him in the first place that is the problem.
You can not access it from ANet without and account (or I assume, an official invite for the weekend)
I can’t copy it and snail male it to him in time to do any good for the coming weekend
His email provider will not allow an .exe as an attachment
And I certainly don’t want to direct him to a 3rd party site to get the .exe
So, I’m just reminding ANet that the people we invite to this special weekend need that access early enough to make it workable.
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Putting this here since I can’t ask a question in the announcement forum.
So, next weekend we are able to invite a friend to try out the game free for a couple of days.
But, the dat file is getting near 17 Gb in size which, on some internet connections, may take a great deal of time to download. So….if the client and dat file are not available for download ahead of time our friends are going to waste most of the available play time downloading the dat.
I assume you will have some way for them to begin downloading that information AHEAD of time?
The person I would like to invite will need this info within the next couple of days if he is to be prepared. Otherwise there is no point in inviting him.
Thanks
Um, what?
Dyes dropping a little too frequently is so important that it not only demands a hot-fix but has to be done during one of the busiest play times of the day for the US?
But a serious story line bug that prevents you from actually playing the main part of the game itself has to wait till the next content update to be fixed even though the fix has already been developed?
And do you have to do all the mad kings says emotes correctly? all i got was a single piece of candy corn. I really hope this wont be a stupid rng thing
This is going to sound kind of silly but it comes from the experience of a friend….yeah, *ahem, a friend.
Did you select one of the reward items on the left? the accept button will not appear until you do and the notice will not go away until you click that button.
It is set way too extreme at this point.
I absolutely love this “feature” please make it standard
Just to add:
This is why places like McDonalds make sure that those who participate in their Monopoly games get a prize once in every 5 or 10 tries. The grand prize can be very rare but there must be a high chance of some kind of reward to keep customers returning.
Three problems with these mad king chests
1: Why do these skins need to be rare? We already have the crafted weapons which will be rare. Did we really need a second set of rare weapons? There really was no point in making them “rare” other than to get people to buy the keys.
2: They are solving the wrong problem. The problem was that keys are too expensive to have to use in gambling for an ultra rare skin so people don’t waste money buying them to open the black lion chests. Instead of providing a means for us to get rid of the unopened chests, they provided a means to eliminate the actually useful items which come from the chest (the boosts). The large number of unopened chests are still sitting in our inventories.
3: The solution only reduces the cost of the keys by a very small amount. Now, instead of one key per chest its 2 keys for every three chests – this does not encourage anyone to go buy keys simply to have a second chance every other time (especially when doing so actually removes a useful item).
Wrong problem – wrong solution.
A 4th observation. Unlike the polar bear incident in GW1 where an ultra rare mini was introduced for free and the complaint was only about rarity – this is essentially a real money deal. The ultimate goal for ANet if they want to keep customers coming back to the gem store is to provide a pleasant experience. No – this does not mean every single chest has to have a skin in it. But it does mean there is reasonable balance that will make customers feel good about the transaction and willing to come back again. To provide an unpleasant experience is to lose customers and, therefore lose money.
While the rest of the halloween update was enjoyable, this one was unpleasant enough that I elected not to buy enough keys to open anywhere near all my chest and decided I didn’t really want to spend money on town clothes either – a purchase I would normally have made just to support ANet even though I had not intention of actually wearing them for more than a couple of minutes (I never spend enough time in town to bother). Same for minis. I normally would have purchased the holiday minis even though they sit in my inventory and are never used. But with the bad taste of BLCs I had to ask myself if I really wanted to spend yet more money for items that will never get used. The answer is no.
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Seriously?
“You are not guaranteed to receive a rare item after opening a Black Lion Chest. You have a chance to get a unique/rare item. Some people are luckier than others. The Halloween skins are tradeable, so if you aren’t able to get them in a Black Lion Chest, you can obtain them on the Trading Post.”
Seriously? This is ANet’s answer for a crap drop rate? No one is complaining that we don’t get a rare skin from every single chest – we are complaining about the drop rate for something that costs around a buck fifty to even try doing.
I have 140 of these things sitting in inventory because the drop rate for keys is so abysmal I can’t do anything with them and I’m not about to spend 200 dollars opening them with a drop rate like this.
Frankly, I’m deleting them and all future chests I get to save inventory space.