Guild Wars 2

Devata.6589:

Zepher.7803:

Personally I am enjoying the break from new content, it does get quite tedious every 2 weeks more grindage to endure.

Agree. Waiting for a good expansion, not waiting for LS S2.

Me too. I like at least a few months break between content.

I tied out Wildstar last night and got to appreciate GW2 even more. Especially the Heart/DE mechanics. Wildstar’s back to the old ‘get a quest. do it, turn it in’ mentality.

They should move all Champion Trains to high level zones. Maybe low level zones should have 1 champion each or something, but not enough for a train.

It’s not Account Bound.

It’s Account Bound on Use.

There’s a big difference.

Even googling, I couldn’t find the answer for you.

There’s nothing wrong about dreaming for a Pre-cursor. I still am. OMG all that GOLD!! All those GEMS!!!

K. Thanks. There are other crafted Runes that look good. I’ll look into how much those are, and what it takes to craft them.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Also, there is a big difference in fighting / running to open temples and running hours and hours of Dungeons to get enough Tokens…..

Especially as I don’t really run Dungeons. My endgame consists mostly of World Bosses and stuff.

Oh, and how do I make those Superior Runes at the Mystic Forge? I looked at the wiki and couldn’t figure it out.

Just increase the vendor amount from 4c to 10c and I’d be happy

Thanks. I do want to buy Karma gear because I can’t be bothered with Ascended, and Karma comes easily and seems like the best way to acquire exotics. I don’t mind not recovering runes. I realize I’ll destroy what’s there if I put a new one in. Thanks mtpelion for the tip about getting the runes on the TP or Mystic Forge. I’ll look into that.

For my Ranger, I was thinking of maybe mixing Power/Toughness/Vitality and Condition Damage/Precision/Vitality gear.

Hi,

OK, just got my 2nd 80 and looking to gear up using Karma with these vendors.

There’s one at each temple, and they offer gear that has mix and match stats, but with Runes that give advantages the more you have of them.

So, here’s my question. Is it better to buy all off one vendor, and get less than optimal stats, but great rune bonuses. Or is it better to buy different pieces off different vendors to get the stats you want, and then replace the runes?

Thanks.

Can Soldier’s be purchased with Karma? I thought it was crafted.

Also, I’m not too up on the Temple Karma vendors, but it seems that all the stats on different pieces from the same vendor are all mixed around. Is the best idea to buy different pieces from different vendors with the stats you want, and ignore the Rune, and replace it with one you want?

I was thinking I should buy all from one vendor because of the rune benefits, but that will give me less than optimal stats on the pieces.

Sorry to be asking a more generic question here.

Hi,

Just got my Longbow Ranger to 80.

Which Karma Exotic gear is best for my Ranger? I was thinking of the Rubicon ones with the Superior Rune of Lyssa. Would those be the best?

BTW: I PVE, and don’t do WvW or sPvP.

Thanks.

Stars.2179:

No, no and no. There is no correlation between subscription fee and better quality content. Just look at World of Warcraft. It is a piece of crap (examples: level grind, several tier gear grind (not only 2 tiers like in this game), horrible story line e.g., no story at all, copy of kungfu panda, horrendous graphic – really? it’s been over 7 years and they still haven’t updated the graphic and dozens of other problem and bugs that this margin is too narrow to contain) yet it has subscription fee. On the contrary, look at this game, it has no subscription fee and it’s a beautiful work of art and actually enjoyable and feel rewarding to play.

Well, WoW still has 7.6 Million subscriptions, so they must be doing something right

skullmount.1758:

Rouven.7409:

Lankybrit.4598:

I was doing the train a lot until recently. Now, I do world bosses instead:

5:15 – Maw, 5:30 – Ugloth, 5:45 – Fire Ele, Dinner, 6:45 – Shadow B

Then I level other characters. I agree that the arguing about the rotation for QD Train is getting a bit old.

What does Dinner drop???

Well after you beat it and acquire its loot you get to go to the Mystic T.

But even with that rotation, don’t you still have spans of time just sitting around? I can’t imagine any of those in that rotation to take the whole 15 minutes to complete.

Well, there’s opening the chest, bags, coffers, whatever and using the TP with the results. There’s getting to the next spot – I always go to Vigil’s Keep first and portal to the closest city for cheaper WPs.

I was doing the train a lot until recently. Now, I do world bosses instead:

5:15 – Maw, 5:30 – Ugloth, 5:45 – Fire Ele, Dinner, 6:45 – Shadow B

Then I level other characters. I agree that the arguing about the rotation for QD Train is getting a bit old.

Arcade Fire.4895:

i think megaservers ought to be left for the lowlevel zones (say 1-50) and should be left out of orr.

megaservers in orr has completely ruined the economy. there’s literally no farm left and it’s driving precursors and mat prices (t6 specifically) up ridiculously high. i don’t know how you guys intend on fixing this otherwise.

most precursors are 1100g+, t6 prices are 40s+.

Why do you say it’s ruined Orr? I find there are lots of people there, but not too many, and people are calling out Champions, and doing Temple runs. It seems very good to me.

All professions (the GW2 term for class in other MMOs) are pretty good for solo play. You can really just try them out and see which one you enjoy best. The thing you really want to do is make sure you read about the combat system in GW2:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/GW2-Combat-system-101-Guide/

It’s pretty different from other MMOs, especially WoW.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Lankybrit.4598:

shadowpass.4236:

I don’t understand why they don’t have an option to trade in the first place, mailing opens up a window for scamming

Because they want everything to be sold through the TP, with the TP tax.

Anet does not earn any revenue from the TP tax….it’s just a gold sink (that ALL MMOs need to have). Not having to handle scammer support tickets DOES cost them less overhead, however.

Yeah, that’s what I meant. They want you to consider the tax when selling, and want to have the gold sink there.

Corpus Christi.2057:

God, people like you make this community feel so childish…

Why do you feel the need to insult people? Totally un-necessary and adds nothing to the argument.

What inflation? Is there really an increasing demand over the supply? Or are some price rises mere spikes, and there’s no inflation at all?

shadowpass.4236:

I don’t understand why they don’t have an option to trade in the first place, mailing opens up a window for scamming

Because they want everything to be sold through the TP, with the TP tax.

I would pay once for an expansion. I agree with Dark on the not enough content.

Galen Grey.4709:

You make it sound like they never released anything when they’ve been adding new content every 2 weeks! I’d pay other MMOs to do that not the other way round personally. Permanent or temporary while the Living story was going on we had new stuff to play all the time!

Just a clarification. They haven’t just added every 2 weeks. They’ve added AND removed every 2 weeks. There’s a big difference.

Devata.6589:

If you’re that keen on permanent updates, find yourself a nice subscription mmo.

I am keen on permanent expansions. That is why I went for a B2P game in stead of a F2P game.. You know F2P game focus on there cash-shop and that is not so good for the quality of the game and it’s content.
…….

If you’re keen on permanent updates, find a subscription MMO
I am keen on permanent updates, so I chose B2P.

That doesn’t make sense!

Very soon, this thread will be locked and you will be asked to post in the ’Where’s new content (merged)’ thread.

We don’t need another thread about this.

Jainay.6180:

I just can’t even see them on the map! I mean a PoI is hard to spot but I’ve got good eyes.. if I have to say so myself. But oh well, I guess I can live with it, then.

Use the little eye in the bottom left to turn off everything except map completion. This can sometimes do the trick. I guess you could try googling for ‘POIs added to GW2’ too.

Because of Living Story, many POIs were added to the game. But none of the new ones are required for 100% afaik.

I disagree Behellagh. Perhaps with Exp bonueses or something. But I often find that I need to do other zones of the same level after completing a zone, before heading to the next.

I’ll give you a good example. My level 35 went to Hirathi Highlands. After completing the zone, she was only level 40, when Hirathi is a 35-45 zone. I know I should probably be using xp boosts or something, but I wasn’t.

Ignace.7569:

Sorry it took such a long time to answer, been busy with school & stuff.

So if I understand correctly, the best is ascended.
But what about the dungeon armor, what is this ?
And also, what are trinkets ?
I’ve still got alot to learn lol.

Erich, you mentioned that Badges can be used for exotic armor & dungeon tokens, but what do you mean with that ?
Do you mean I can buy that kind of armor, or ar the badges needed to do any kind of upgrade on the armor ?

Thanks in advance !

Here’s a good place to start:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_armor_sets

Dungeon armor is Exotic.

When he refers to Badges, he’s talking about Badges of Honor, gained by doing WvW.

It’s all on that wiki page.

aynrandy.8136:

Im a bit of a noob here… You are all moaning that you cant farm like you used to but doesnt that mean that there is less supply and more demand? Meaning that for the ore you do sell you get more for it? :s

It will probably work like that in the end. Prices will probably take a while to adjust.

What is GW2 missing?

Decent rewards.

Third Dementor.8693:

Thanks for all the tips, guys. Rest assured, I’ll take them to heart.

I’d like to ask one other question, more open this time:

Could you list some things that you wish you’d known when you first started playing? Stuff like using the PvP window to get to Lion’s Arch to travel around.

Once again, thanks in advance.

Here’s a nice list:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/OMG-If-you-only-knew-this-tips-for-new-players/

I really don’t believe a new Race or Profession is coming any time soon.

Well, they’ve had the April 15th Feature update, and now they have the China launch. They’ll be back eventually.

Galen, it doesn’t really make that much of a difference which period you take. WoW release Expansions, and permanent content patches between them, GW2 doesn’t.

BTW, they’re not called classes in GW2, they’re called Professions. And yes, all Professions can pretty much do everything, but it depends on the weapon you’re wielding. I enjoy playing a Rifle Warrior as Ranged, while others like a Greatsword Warrior as Melee.

http://guildwarstemple.com/dragontimer/

is a pretty good one. Just select your realm and off you go.

Bombsaway.7198:

I would argue that they just need to remove the need to actually craft ascended and allow them to be gotten in PvP dungeon quests where you get tickets to get whatever piece you want and drop frequently (again ticket based to get stats you want) far more regularly in WvW.

Crafting should be quite optional OR ascended gear should be salable at quite reasonable prices.

Ideally, both.

Well, Ascended gear is already optional.. so…….

I think it’s generally accepted that dungeons runs (running lots of different paths) will net you the most gold. That is, other than TP flipping

BTW: If you have lots of Laurels. You can buy the heavy bag, and sell the contents, netting you about 1g per laurel. That could be a good boost towards 400.

I’m following the 1-400 one and will switch to gw2craft.com when I get to 400. Note that in gw2craft, you can say ‘expand’ all discoveries, and get an idea for what you’re going to need for a particular tier of crafting.

The other thing I’m doing is leveling lot of characters through zones to get the mats I need for Crafting. There is no easy way for one character to get the mats for a Craft out in the world.

So, in summary: Yes, even outdated guides can still be used 1-400.

Galen Grey.4709:

Shadowmoon.7986:

Draknar.5748:

Adding FoTM, the new dungeons in FoTM, EoTM, and all of the temp content in between is more than WoW did in the same time period. That’s a fact.

Let see what wow released in a year and half.
Added 2 dungeons multiple paths(Maraudon and dire maul)
Added 4 Raids (Blackwing Lair, Zul’Gurub, Ahn’Qiraj, Naxxramas)
Added 3 Battlegrounds with different game types
Added 10 world bosses
Added the Blackmoon faire and weekly fishing event and holiday events.
Seems that fact is a lie to me.

How is a lie? we definitely got more content than that, far more. People insist temporay content doesnt count but how many max level wow characters still play Blackwing lair ? or kill any of those 10 world bosses? Or do Dire Maul?

sure physically they’re still in game no doubt about that, but mechanically they’re no longer accessible because of power creep. Gw2 does temporary by removing content, WoW does temporary content by giving an expatriation date to content.

He was talking about a year and a half in the same lifespan for WoW as GW2. That is, early WoW stuff vs early GW2 stuff. So, you would be looking at the content back after it was just released to see who was still playing it.

Why don’t you just look at all the WoW changes over the last 2 years versus those for GW2 over the last two years. It’s clear what a subscription buys.

Yeah, I’ve found the guild bank to be the most worthless and most risky of storage options. When I upgrade next it will definitely be my bank slots. They are great for everything, especially account bound items.

ricohman.7302:

Please dont tell me I should of leveled armoursmith instead of weaponsmith to make this weapon. I’m finding it hard to make sense of this bullkitten.

Yikes, one should always check the wiki, especially when taking on things like crafting a legendary.

The Pointless.3869:

Aidan Savage.2078:

Kyrel.8942:

I actually like the Personal Story.

My only qualms is that it can conflict with the Living World making things weird like LA.

It doesnt conflict with anything. The personal story takes place loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong before the LS does in the timeline. The fact that LA appears the same as it does in certain PS missions is irrelevant.

For those of us who have seen LA prior to Scarlet’s attack, though, it is somewhat… disorientating. I mean, things like Tybalt “selling” his apples in a city that has been reduced to ash, or working your way around debris from the Breachmaker to speak to General Soulkeeper seem more than a little “whut?” to me.

Indeed. Any time I’m sent to LA on my personal story now I die a little inside.

My most hardcore is 3 manning the Champ Cave Troll. Lots of reviving in that one, but we managed it.

Yeah, I’m pretty casual, so that’s my most hard core.

Trahearne!!!!!

OMG I want him to go away so badly.

Aidenwolf.5964:

Lankybrit.4598:

Aidenwolf.5964:

DigitalKirin.9714:

Aidenwolf.5964:

There is a 99.9% chance that you’re in over your head. Best of luck!

Unlikely.

Aidenwolf.5964:

Since we’re going to be mass forging because we really need our precursor we will need to buy the components and then craft these greatswords with our weaponsmith.

-snip-

The action of purchasing from the Trading Post (thus incurring the Trade Post fees, which remove gold from the game) is the reason why gold is removed from the game.

It is NOT the action for destroying items that removes the gold from the game.

I’m talking about the individual’s gold not the greater economy which is irrelevant.

Ahh, I think we’ve got to the root of the problem. A gold sink takes money from the overall economy. You can’t just apply it to an individual, you have to look at the game economy as a whole.

Welcome to understanding. I’ve only ever been speaking about the economy from an individual player’s perspective.

Why did you use the term Gold Sink then? A better term would have been ‘Waste of money’.

Aidenwolf.5964:

DigitalKirin.9714:

Aidenwolf.5964:

There is a 99.9% chance that you’re in over your head. Best of luck!

Unlikely.

Aidenwolf.5964:

Since we’re going to be mass forging because we really need our precursor we will need to buy the components and then craft these greatswords with our weaponsmith.

-snip-

The action of purchasing from the Trading Post (thus incurring the Trade Post fees, which remove gold from the game) is the reason why gold is removed from the game.

It is NOT the action for destroying items that removes the gold from the game.

I’m talking about the individual’s gold not the greater economy which is irrelevant.

Ahh, I think we’ve got to the root of the problem. A gold sink takes money from the overall economy. You can’t just apply it to an individual, you have to look at the game economy as a whole.

Aidenwolf.5964:

mtpelion.4562:

Aidenwolf.5964:

You could type the alphabet and claim it’s poetry as well. Crafting rares to throw into the forge chasing a legendary precursor bankrupts unlucky players. This is the gold sink I’m referring to. In addition to the macro sinks of waypoint costs and TP fees.

Bankruptcy is the appropriate term for what you are describing, not “Gold Sink”.

Gold Sinks are things that delete currency (not asset value) from the game in order to offset the fact that currency is created out of thin air when players do things in the game.

Spending all of your coins chasing a pipe dream is just plain old-fashioned Bankruptcy.

Since I will never purchase a precursor I have two choices, forge one, and since a drop will never happen, don’t craft a legendary. Those are my two choices.

You are correct that a gold sink deletes gold from the economy I’ll use the term golden toilet to address the mystic forge.

Why can’t we convince you? The TP tax is on every transaction. It’s a gold sink. If you have 1000g that you spend trying to get a pre-cursor, you’ve given 850g to other players, and 150g is sunk. What would you do if you didn’t put them in the Mystic Forge? Flip them? Generating another 15% sink? Vendor them? For a pittance? The amount of gold taken out of the economy by forging them is infinitesimal.