I agree. I have like 20 priests and 5-ish Jennahs that I don’t have a use for.. Getting minis in the GW1 birthday chests was fun since you never knew which one you’d get and you could always sell it if you already had it. In GW2, you always get the same mini and you can’t sell it. There should atleast be something to do with leftover account-bound minis and other items aswell.. It’s just frustrating to have so many account-bound items that you don’t have a use for. It’s the same with all those ascended rings in my bank, and all those spare bloodstone dust/bricks from champions, etc..
I completely agree. Most rings from fractals just end up in the bank sadly.. When fractals just came out, everyone was going for those, but now you don’t even care when you get one anymore. I would love if it became something sought-after again. Why not allow players to salvage ascended items into dark matter, as an alternative to salvaging exotics? Or perhaps make them salvageable into mists essence? Or essences of luck?
I wouldn’t say that. In GW1 there were three main populations of hydras that we saw, one in Ascalon, one in the Crystal Desert, and one in the Ring of Fire. All we can really say is that the Ascalonian ones are gone, but one out of three does not qualify as a species vanishing.
I believe we only saw hydras in post-searing Ascalon because they thrive in wastelands and places where it’s usually hard to live in. Since we didn’t see hydras in pre-searing Ascalon, my guess is they immigrated from the crystal desert after the searing. 250 years later, Ascalon has mostly recovered, so they either can’t or don’t want to live there anymore. We don’t have any reason to believe there’s not still hydras in the Ring of Fire islands and in the Crystal Desert.
Question: Do you guys think Ascended gear has anything to do with ascension/infusion? (Infusion being the effect on your armor in GW1 that made you resist Spectral Agony)
I have heard it’s been stated by Linsey Murdock that the names of the system in GW2 is only a developer nod to the GW1 mechanics and hold no lore connections. As I said earlier in this thread.
Regarding spectral agony she only said “Original Guild Wars fans may recognize that we took a familiar approach to our new progression. The first end game mechanic we will introduce is Agony, which will be encountered in the Fractals of the Mists dungeon, and is mitigated by Infusions.”, so she did state that it’s a similar mechanic, but she didn’t state that agony and spectral agony don’t hold lore connections. She might have said such a thing somewhere else though.
We already know who lives there if you talk to villagers there is wizard who gives them elemental guardians in exchange for kidnapping there children who he sucks out there souls<-very mursaat like and implants them in never extinguishing elementals.
That’s just a theory. It is interesting though.
WoodenPotatoes did a pretty good summary video about what we currently know about the wizard’s tower and the theory Fafnir mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xslnnsNAUPA
I think you get the xp after leaving the activity. When I have 4/5 and then complete the daily activity participation achievement, I don’t get the daily chest until I’ve left the activity instance, so my guess is that it’s the same for the xp.
I was able to do it with Dulfy’s guide 2 days ago. When I did 2-1 I missed some baubles, it really helped me to number them as I got him (like he does in the video).
Dulfy is a woman I think
Not necessarily, just because Dulfy plays a female character, does not mean he/she is a female in real life. Do you know how many guys play female characters? There’s really no way to know without asking Dulfy.
Her twitter account has a female name.. But why does it matter anyway? This is very off topic. What matters is we all followed Dulfy’s guide; some didn’t get the achievement while others did. Let’s keep the conversation about that instead of making it into a discussion about who the creator of the guide is.
I can confirm that this achievement is not bugged; just checked it myself.
How can you say that? Just because you managed to get it doesn’t mean there’s not a bug under certain circumstances, whatever they might be. If you read what people have been saying here, some people did indeed get the achievement after taking all the baubles while others didn’t, even though they picked up the same ones. Clearly there is something wrong here.
Really bad survey. I didn’t defeat Tequatl, so how am I supposed to answer #2 and #3?
Also, there should be something between “No” and “As much as I can!” on question #3. What if I feel like killing tequatl every now and then or only occasionally with my guild? Give it more yes options; maybe I feel like doing it more since I have a chance of getting the mini or the ascended weapons. The “no” alternatives currently explain why the user feels that way, but not the one yes option. Alternatively, make it a yes/no question and then ask us why we answered as we did.
Question #4 might need an “other” option where the user can specify. I, for instance, think one of the major flaws is something completely else than what is found in the encounter itself: the current overflow and guesting systems.
For the reasons above, I, like many others, am unable to answer the survey, and therefore the data collected from the poll is not something to be taken seriously by anyone.
and how can u limit the # of times u can join partys ?
They don’t. They only limit how many times you can join the same party. The limit is there to stop people from harassing parties and abusing the LFG tool.
I have the exact same problem. Followed every step of dulfy’s guide and did it on normal mode. I don’t know if dulfy’s guide is outdated (Did you add baubles to the level, ArenaNet?), because loads of people seem to have this exact problem after following that guide.
Edit: Maybe problem is that I cannot get Associate of Secrets in the same run with Associate of Baubles.
Or maybe this might be the source of the bug (If it is a bug). I tried doing these two achievements in the same run, and only got Associate of Secrets.
I think you only get the “ban” if you join the same group twice and get kicked. Since the join feature in LFG is forced instead of based on a request, this is completely normal and fine. Just think about it: you might have a group of 3 mesmers advertised on there, someone joins you and now you’re suddenly 4 mesmers. Of course you don’t want 4 mesmers for whatever it is you’re doing, so you kick the person. But the person rejoins the group by force. You kick him again. Now he can’t do that again, and that’s a great feature.
Its not that high, its like 2.5% to get what you want.
It’s way too high. If you would have your way, the new crafting system and materials would be worthless. It’s a good thing that they’re a quite rare drop. It gives people a reason to go back and do the event again since they might get an ascended weapon. It gives people an alternative to crafting them and having to pay loads of money and time getting the materials. If you look at what’s needed to craft an ascended weapon and compare, the drop rate of ascended weapons from events like these should be quite low. I do agree they need to give Tequatl better rewards/incentives, but there’s other ways to do that. Make him drop even more dragonite ore or give him a higher drop chance for exotics, for instance..
In a month people may be killing Tequatl quite easily. If I get an ascended weapon each time we kill him (or even get his hp to 75% which isn’t even that hard really), what will I do with all those spare weapons? Just leave them in the bank like I had to do with all those rings from fractals that can’t be salvaged? Nah, that was a terrible idea.
What I think they should do to combat the “I didn’t get the right stats on my weapon” problem:
Make ascended items salvageable into dark matter and/or other ascended crafting materials to be used when crafting the weapon I want.
So we were fighting Scarlet just now on Desolation.. When the timer reached 00:00 she still stood there for about 5 seconds, then just as she was about to despawn.. Everyone in the map got disconnected and we didn’t get a reward.
In my opinion, ArenaNet should have put a yellow star on the map and above her as they usually do.. There’s so many people confused about her whereabouts right now.
Same here. No matter what angle I come from, the flower decides to throw me in the direction of the “main” path instead of the alternative one. (Doesn’t this thread belong in the “game bugs” section of the forums though?)
Edit: I managed to jump over there by foot. The flower isn’t really needed.
1: Because it obviously takes alot of effort to make those kinds of cutscenes.
2: I disagree. I’m glad they’ve started making the cutscenes this way instead of the boring “2 characters facing each other while talking, phasing in and out when a third character shows up”-kind of cutscene. The cutscene was pretty cool imo.
Meh, going to play another game. Now hopefully ANet will realize that churning out all this temporary crap does not really work out. I’d rather have them focus on persistent additions to this world (start with that door in Ebonhawke leading into the Crystal Desert please).
These invasion events ARE a permanent addition to the game according to the patch notes.
There is already a massive [MERGED] thread on PAGE 1 of Game Bugs that you can’t have missed seeing and it even includes a response from a dev on the issue…
I did search the forum for such a thread before creating this one, but the search function returned no results. Sorry for making another thread about the same thing, it was not my intention.
I went to Cragstead today to purchase some beer from the beer merchant (karma vendor), but no matter how much beer I buy from there, the Karma spender achievement still stands at 0/750 karma spent. This is my usual karma spending spot and there’s never been a problem with this before the last update.
Btw ArenaNet, It would be nice to have achievements as a reportable bug category in-game so you don’t have to go on the forums every time there’s a bug regarding them.
This is outrageous. I’m not an RPer but I do remember liking that place and shrine alot. I was definitely one of the cooler places in DR. And it gets replaced by a worthless area with vendors…? Shouldn’t humans pay respect to Balthazar wherever there’s war, battles and arenas? In GW humans had the Great Temple of Balthazar as the main hub on the battle isles. There were arenas there but alot revolved around this god. Balthazar faction, the Balthazar statue etc. It just seems weird to remove this. At least put a statue and priest in front of the arena or something. Or you can put it on the arena’s ledges where there’s currently nothing going on anyway.
Trying to hit players on walls is already hard enough. ground-targeted aoe seems to do the trick, but for most professions it’s a case of obstructed, obstructed, obstructed etc, which is the same thing as you’re saying. We hit the wall instead of you.
hm well you think that somewere in all of gw’s 2 you could find a Ritualist NPC. I say that based on the idea that Cathia could not have been okie everyone back home no one stay near Ascalon any longer. Some had to have stayed behind for no one to stay behind would sujest not one of them was unique in there way of thinking they was all xenophobic not one wanted to rebell explore the world ect…
It’s kind of hard to understand what you’re saying but I guess you mean that there must have been some canthans that stayed in Tyria when Cantha went isolationist. And yes, there was. The Divinity’s reach district called The Great Collapse was a district consisting of mostly canthan humans before it collapsed, just as the Ossan district consists of mostly elonian humans.
There has never (as far as anyone knows) been a strong tradition of ritualism in Tyria except among the white mantle cultists; there were mobs called white mantle ritualists in Kryta in gw1, but these were technically Necromancers who sometimes had ritualist as their second profession. Most ritualists came from Cantha and that’s why I think we won’t see ritualists return until we go down there, if ever.
How much trash and how many bosses are before the actual Zhaitan encounter? (This, again, in addition to having to find 4 other people, most likely strangers, to do said dungeon as opposed to an individual instance.)
It’s all completely unnecessary for the personal story. All they had to do is the Zhaitan only part with you and the NPCs. Done.
Really? Why would you expect Zhaitan to be easy to get to? Did you expect to just open a door and see Zhaitan standing there ready to be killed? No, instead we fly an airship to him, get attacked along the way and kill his dragon minions, then kill Zhaitan. It’s the way to Zhaitan that makes Arah epic, not the actual fight against him.
I can kind of see what you people mean; it would have made more sense to keep dungeons and personal story separate. But as I said earlier, ArenaNet has already implemented Arah and released GW2 and they wouldn’t move Zhaitan out of there now.
What I’m getting from the OP is either that he/she simply wants Arah to remain the exact same way it is but not be classified as a dungeon or just simply doesn’t want it to be a challenge. Don’t you expect and want getting to and fighting an elder dragon to be challenging? Would be really weird if it wasn’t.
I don’t think it’s impossible to get ritualists back. It’s just that lore-wise, ritualists are a very Cantha-specific profession so I don’t think we’ll see that profession return until we can go down there (e.g. for an expansion).
But remember back when Assassins and Ritualists were first introduced with GW:Factions? Balance was completely off. And then 6 months later, the Dervish and the Paragon are released. I think and hope ArenaNet have learned something from those mistakes and release new professions slowly instead of fast (if they’re ever to release new professions that is). In my opinion a new race is alot more likely than a profession.
So the whole goal and point of the second half of the personal story was to kill Zhaitan, and you want the actual “killing Zhaitan”-part not to be part of the story? What if an expansion releases and the NPCs talk about you having killed Zhaitan even though you never did, would that make sense?
They won’t move Zhaitan outside of the dungeon just for you to kill him either, not now when Arah is already done the way it is. They could make story mode dungeons soloable at some point in the future I guess. Barely anyone is repeating them anyway..
I’d love a poker-like activity in GW2. Make players bet coins and play against each other. Have “poker” tables at bars around the world where you can enter and play, because right now there’s no reason to go to those bars/inns etc. except for RP and buying drinks for the drinking achievement.
From the recent blog post written by Colin Johanson:
“Examples of some of the major areas we’re working on in the first half of 2013 include:
(…)
Improving the “looking for group” tool to make it easier to find other players to play with in the game.”
Quite funny to be complaining about getting extra cogs! As it stands I got no extra cogs in my email; should I now feel cheated or grateful for the things I did get?
You don’t seem to understand the problem. I’m not complaining about getting free stuff, I just don’t have any use for the cogs anymore since I apparently wasted money on something I’d have gotten for free if I’d waited. Most people also have 200 spare cogs now but there’s no use for them at all.
I see. It was a misunderstanding then. In the future I won’t buy event-specific items from the gem store except if it’s the last day of the event. I still think it was a bad idea to sell them on the gem store the way they did. They should have specifically stated at the beginning how many you’d be able to get for free in the end.. It feels like I wasted money on something that was free.
So I just received 250 more cogs in the mail, despite having already opened the chest. Problem is, I already have all the minipets. I had been told a dev had confirmed we’d only be able to obtain enough cogs to craft two of the five minipets. Had I known I would get another 250 cogs from the mail I wouldn’t have bought all of the remaining ones from the gem store.
Now, I understand why you might wanna send out 200 cogs: both to remedy the first cog bug, but also to give them to the people who were unable to obtain the cogs from the chest. What I don’t understand is why’d you send 250 cogs to everyone after saying you wouldn’t be able to craft more than two minis! What will I do with these 450 leftover cogs when there’s no use for them anymore?
If someone from ArenaNet could confirm the cogs will have a use in the future It’d feel okay and I’ll save them for next year, but right now I feel tricked by ArenaNet making me buy things that people that waited got for free.. Even if I’m wrong and a dev has never said what I’ve been told they’ve said, we all have at least 200 spare cogs right now and nothing to do with them. So a confirmation or clarification would be nice.
Sometimes when I’m in WvW capturing a certain supply camp I don’t get a pop up for the event “Attack X”. It doesn’t show up in the right hand corner. When the supply camp is taken over by us, I don’t get rewarded despite participating in the event. Note that this only happens at a few supply camps. Most times I do get participation for the event.
I’ve encountered this issue three times just recently and never had this problem earlier. I encountered it first a few days ago (I don’t remember where but it was definitely at a supply camp) and twice today at the same supply camp (the northwestern one in the green borderlands). The first time this happened I asked people “Was it just me that didn’t get the reward?” and got the answer “I got it.” from a few people and I never heard anything about anyone else not getting participation.
I disagree. It would make leveling harder on alts and force you to complete every zone on the world map to get to lvl 80, or force you to do dungeons or crafting (which not everyone enjoys or can afford).
I actually enjoy exploring the entire zones all over again since I always end up stumbling upon something I haven’t seen before. The vistas and skillpoints make you go out of the way and stumble upon events you may not have seen otherwise.
If they were to change this people would go from heart to heart and then complain they had nothing to do or that the leveling curve is off. Many people already have enough issues with the current leveling curve, feeling they have to visit other races’ starting zones etc. so changing this would only make things worse.
How do you mean it would make leveling harder? Because you wouldn’t be getting as much experience because you aren’t doing every vista? Well, that could be remedied by more XP given for zone completions. My complaint isn’t about leveling being too easy or too difficult, my complaint is that I don’t enjoy repeating all the tedious steps of finding every vista and figuring out how to get to it.
It’s fortunate that you enjoy repeating vistas and POI’s. But I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in despising having to repeat this content and not being able to get around a map I’ve already explored. It quite simply makes rolling alts punishing.
Sorry, I see why you might think it’s boring to have to re-do everything on your alts but I think changing this would only create more problems and there’s really no reason for them to change this. It works fine the way it is. Play any other MMORPG and you’ll see that every time you make an alt you’ll have to explore the world again since it’s the new character’s story, not the old one’s.
The way I see it, the reason why they have the vistas and PoIs is because they want you to go out of the way to experience other events than the ones you’d find within heart regions. There would be no incentive to go out of the way to experience any other content on your alts than the hearts, which would be very boring in my opinion. Also, the main source of xp and item drops in this game is events, at least that’s my experience.
Giving you more xp for zone completion wouldn’t help at all since you’d still be way underleveled while still in the zone. Do you really expect people to complete a level 1-15 zone when they’re at level 7 or 8? (yes, they will be that underleveled if they don’t do events, PoIs and vistas)
I agree the gw2 system should definitely have been designed to prevent this as in gw1 but yes it is his fault now that the game doesn’t work that way. He deleted an object you can’t get back.
There’s a distinct difference between bugs, oversights and design decisions. This isn’t a bug, but it was probably an oversight that arenanet did when they designed the game.
And if they then made the weekly event chain or area to go to random for everyone, this would give an incentive for players to revisit old zones and do events there, which will definitely be needed in the future as more content gets added to the game, since otherwise everyone will be hanging out in the newer zones except people who are new to the game or are leveling alts, which makes it hard for them to complete group- and meta events.
I disagree. It would make leveling harder on alts and force you to complete every zone on the world map to get to lvl 80, or force you to do dungeons or crafting (which not everyone enjoys or can afford).
I actually enjoy exploring the entire zones all over again since I always end up stumbling upon something I haven’t seen before. The vistas and skillpoints make you go out of the way and stumble upon events you may not have seen otherwise.
If they were to change this people would go from heart to heart and then complain they had nothing to do or that the leveling curve is off. Many people already have enough issues with the current leveling curve, feeling they have to visit other races’ starting zones etc. so changing this would only make things worse.
Have you checked if it’s in the the collectibles tab in the bank? :P
If you deleted a character that had the mini in the inventory it’s probably gone forever as I know it. I have to point out I don’t consider this a bug since you only have yourself to blame if you delete an object. You could always contact support and see if they can restore the item for you though.
