Guild Wars 2

I am a little bit confuse here, why are comparing adrenaline with turret here?

Also, when did shoutbow become a meta? are we talking about open world pve here? or did Anet changed war so much in last 2 weeks?

lol, feel like this whole downscale “bug” may associate with all the HOT things added in this patch.

I have a feeling when HOT release there will be something called downscale mastery, the more you level it the less “penalty” you take in low level map, this new downscale bug may just someone let the cat out of the bag.

I don’t think there is any way other than fork out gems right now.

You have to complete the story in order to unlock merchant selling those pieces for gold+bandit crests.

Edit: actually, boots can drop from bandit chest, not sure about pants, think that is story only.
VW only drop chest piece, or am I missing something?

lol, Dejavu, swear I have seen a thread with almost same title a few weeks ago.

I agree the time gating is annoying, but apparently that’s what Anet going by nowadays, and it’s work as intended, they just want to see you log in every day.

Rather than discuss how to acquire skill points under the new system, I’d imagine WvW players should not be buying HOT expansion in the first place after reading the mastery blog.

From what I gather, mastery points use to unlock masteries only come from PvE and only benefit PvE(kinda like WvW ac mastery doesn’t benefit ac in sw), so WvW players will have significantly less mastery points to utilize exp with and probably have no need for them either.
Also, the new mastery system only kicks in if you are lv80 and own HOT, so if you don’t own HOT, exp will continue to contribute to skill points, meaning less wasted exp.

Until Anet make some clarifications in later blog, that’s the conclusion I stick with, although I highly doubt there are too many players play purely WvW.

I find it funny that the whole discussion is base off a false presumption.

Majority of dungeon party I PUG through LFG, hardly ever did I experience this “toxicity” that I keep hearing. I also joined a lot of those “zerker only” groups, without wearing full zerker or no zerker at all, only got ask to ping gear 4 times(life time), and the teams were cool about it as long as I know what I am doing.

I bet a lot of complainers hardly ever pug(or dungeon at all) and just unfortunate enough to bump into a group also has no clue what they doing(one reason I avoid all welcome groups, as those more likely to become toxic than zerker/exp only).

~20 min(1 game won as guard, queue time included), pvp achievement really got dumb down, two are literally free as long as you don’t afk.

As for pve ones, done maw(spawn 15 min after reset) and vista (LA→Grove, there is one right next to the portal), takes ~5 min.

Well, I suck at this kind of mini game, and I’m at 4xx/500 already, so this one shouldn’t be that bad. Consider wintersday should last for at least 2 weeks, just play one song per day will get you there…..eventually.

ps. I need to play one song per day for daily anyway, cause I am even worse at timed JP, thank goodness it’s not part of meta.

Anet did say something along that line(not sure if its 100g or not, maybe higher).

But back then the fastest farm was repeat speed clear cof p1(zerker 4 war 1 mes), the diminish return was huge and an avg group only earn ~2g per hour after the first hour.

Ever since QJ patch, rework on dungeon reward and add champ box set gw2 economy in super fast track, 1500g nowadays is about the same value as 100~150g when the statement were made.

It really depends on what you mean by “not dead”, it only takes ~30 active ppl(3~5 station each fort, 8~10 run doly) to create a 4/4 SW map. As for breach, had done copper with 5 man, iron with 3, platinum with 5, not sure what’s the minimum require for gold/silver.

For a new map, while farming 2k crests to finish shoulder collection, it really feel dead to me. But just from event completion pov, I guess you can still say it is not dead yet.

If Anet ever add this set into pvp track, it will have constraint like you must finish LS S2 in order to unlock this track, so you end up have to pve anyway.

ps. speaking of afk pve hotjoin, one of achievement in this new LS is exactly that(Redux), you basically let one guy take the hit and do all the work, while rest of the group just run as far away as possible to get the achievement.

First off, aside from Arah, you should never consider buying any dungeon, as they can be easily complete by pugs in 15~25 min.(just doing some “study” beforehead on youtube)

As for token, you get 40 per path from daily chest, 20 per path for completion, and a chance to get bags from 3 bosses per path(each bag contains 3 token). To complete a full dungeon set(all armors + all weapons), you need close to 10k tokens per dungeon.

Well…as a dungeon frequent, I was a little shock that I am still short on tokens when I start working on the achievement.

AC/CoF done right at start
CM/TA already half done & finish in a month
SE/Arah already at 31/37
COE all path is easy to form
……the painful part is actually HotW, hardly anyone(in my guild anyway) wants to run this, and most who run will only do p1(no love for underwater bosses). With still ~4k tokens missing and only ~60 token pre day, I will most likely have to pvp to get this done in reasonable amount of time.

Just out of curiosity, if you just sell 10 ecto and 10 mystic coins on TP, you can probably make enough gold to buy 5~10 T6 mat of your choice, why gamble it on MF if you don’t want clover?(knowing >50% of time it will be net loss, while rest just barely break even.)

Pretty sure OP got the definition wrong.

Multi-boxing—>open multiple clients on multiple computers.
Duel-client—>open 2 clients on the same computer.

I remember a while back someone posted a how-to-make-gold vid, which involves opening 8 clients(one park at TP and the rest at crafting stations), don’t think that guy was ever banned.

I purchase a bank tab since it’s on sale, unaware my bank tab is already max, is it possible to ask for a refund?

Also, feel a little weird, since when my collection expand is max, gem store won’t allow me to buy anymore, not sure why not do the same for bank tab.(or is it possible that max bank tab will go up in the future? in that case I will just keep it.)

Just for fairness sake, OP is wrong about one thing: checking a guide is not the same as rushing for achievement.

ex. After looking up the spoon collection, I decide to take it slow because the last 3 spoons require some RNG. Have I not check the guide, I most likely will waste lots time collecting karma spoons only to get frustrated because the last 3 are gated by luck.

Some people like to be prepared, other enjoy the thrill of exploring, both are fine and not really ruining the experience.

The vote is kinda bias imho, should just be “Do you like this new changes? Yes/No/Not apply”. Breaking down the not-like into so many categories while like in just one is an attempt to divert the Nah votes.

Btw. I voted “not apply” option, since the trait update already kill my desire to make new alts, this update really just reinforce it.

Is there any requirement to unlock this achievement? can’t find any info on wiki or dulfy.

Opened a few rare/exotic Gilded Strongbox, Heirloom Seed Pouch, and Deluxe Gear Box, but the achievement doesn’t pop up.

Warrior GS works just fine, surely it feels lackluster when the group knows how to might stack, but in most PUG it’s almost OP.(easy 12~25 stack of might, for just pressing 1 and 2.)

Dragon bash was hosted by captain’s council of LA, highly doubt they were in the mood of hosting a festival right after a devastating attack.(And if any bashing going on, it will be Scarlet, since no npc at the time knows a dragon is behind this.)

Seeing Anet just shot Zephyrites down from the sky, and they perm grounded on dry top, I will guess bazaar is not coming back next year either.

Meh, if you want to know when was the last precursor related news, it was sometime April this year, goes somewhere along the line of “back to drawing board”.

As for scavenger hunt, pretty sure that idea was scrapped and got replace by precursor crafting.

If it’s on open PvE map, then sure, I don’t see why not.

In dungeon, pls no, the last thing you want is half melee and half range, there are many reason to stack, sharing boon is just one of them.

ps. People generally blame the range, cause they proc boss’s more dangerous attacks/mechanics, killing melees, then unable to anchor. NOT because they have less boons.

Losing actives ever since megaserver(from 80~120 to 30~60, out of 500), thought there may be a resurge when LS2 up(~90), but after a week, the number went back down again, now at ~50.

Well, the fact pugs can flood in means they are at least on ts, else they will just be subject to a purge.

Brother Grimm.5176:

There were never ANY promises on WHEN crafted precursors would be released. Granted, they indicated they were aiming for 2013 and they are obviously behind schedule on this, so an inquiry is justified.

They actually kinda did if you read the original blog, it just simply got push back on Nov 2013, then another push back somewhere along late Mar/early Apr this year.(The later push back was done by a dev necro a month old thread on crafting forum, most probably didn’t catch it.)

Granted, I am more concern on the new legendary than precursor crafting, but guessing those two probably will release in one package.

Fafnir.5124:

I thought this was ways to reduce grind or make it more interesting not what can you add so i can spend my 1k scrolls on. you are going to want them for the new skills that will cost 50 each just saying.

My point being, what some may consider hard/challenging/interesting, can be easy/boring to others.(in this case, just double click for a few minutes for me)

With that say, I am not against less grind or having alternative ways, but it’s better to keep your expectation low, as it’s in Anet’s interest to keep legendary from the majority.

Just to burst OP’s bubble, I have >1k sp scrolls sitting in my bank, and maybe another stack or two sitting across all my characters, since I am running low on bank space.(In short, it’s not hard to get 1k sp at all)

I am all for less grind, but as far as I can tell, precursor is the only thing barring most from having a legendary, since it’s the only all or nothing component.(which, I guess, is also why Anet take forever to implement precursor crafting, they afraid once it become a stable process, rarity of legendary will plummet.)

Gold/sliver BB is the way to farm tickets, ~2 hours of BB will end up with 1~2 stacks of tickets, depend on PUG or TTS map.

btw. events at Bazaar don’t drop tickets.

Alternatively, if you can’t find a good map, find a few buddies and grind trashes in CP, but that’s 30~40 tickets per hour at best.

wow, this is crazy, toss my name in hat. :P

No, it doesn’t.

If your attack have 100 base and 20 condition per sec for 3 sec.
Not crit: 100 + 20 × 3
On crit: 150 + 20 × 3

Condition damage doesn’t crit.

500 chances post 06/18…..all tokens

RNG hates me

Run dungeon, if you are looking for quick cash.

As for world bosses, profit per boss is actually 25~50% higher(due to price increase on rares/ecto), but the train is 2~3x slower.

I don’t see why not, as long as the title is different than the one you success, like “at least I try”(for beating everything else and fail at liadri 100 times, and ofc, worth 0 ap).

ps. If you experience “glitch” where your character doesn’t move, it’s most likely one of the below:
a) you are poor at endurance management, and enable double tab direction key to dodge.
b) your internet is bad or your pc is out-dated.

Yes, karma was nerfed, it’s replacement was a laughable amount of luck(to boost your mf).

But to be perfectly fair, gift of mastery is nowhere near “1/4 of the way” of a legendary, it’s more like the beginning of your misery.

I will agree it’s not a race, more like dolyak rush(basically a nerf version of guild rush).

But not sure what glitch you are talking about, ran at least twice per day since patch, never seen any glitch.(blow off by the wind is not a glitch, and only failing the last leap may make you start over, everywhere else there’s a safety net.)

Open another 500+, got a favor and a spore backpiece, still no recipe.(~1500 chance and counting)

My Mesmer: 2 more stacks of ticket fresh off gold BB
My Thief: Oh boy (T^T)

If gift of color is demoralizing for someone, then the whole cost to craft a bifrost will sent her in shock.(it’s not like gift of color can be use for anything else.)

Guardian = you need to know what you doing to be useful
Warrior = you can still be useful even when you don’t know what you doing

I actually agree with OP, always toss my 11 silver for good luck anyway.

ps. If you know it’s a gold/silver map, then the wait is totally worth it, besides it won’t be that long either(5~15min, which you can farm gauntlet while waiting.)
If it’s bronze map, you either don’t care about BB or try to taxi out asap anyway.

pps. if you think you are helpful but feel cheap about donation, just toss in 1 silver, it’s cheaper than using the wp.

open ~900 bags so far(~400 pre patch/~500 post patch), 1 favor(pre patch), rest all tokens, still have ~300 bags to open + ~700 tickets to grind.

Personally like guardian better, staff aa hits like a truck with bloodlust and 4x power runes.

Finish lv10 PS at lv4, don’t even get to the stage of “choosing skills”(unless I am doing it while daily reset).

Thief for sure is the king/queen at farming chances, I have seen other classes farm at equal speed, but one slip and its 5~6 chance gone+rez time(which happen quite often after 1+ hour of farming).

For thief, tab→3,111,5,111111,5,111111…., I literally do it with eyes close.

There is a red post telling us to NOT open a support ticket.

Might as well add myself to the no-chest list.

GOM, 1st place on WvW tab, all achievement completed(including ones from EotM), no chest so far(tried relog/switch character, didn’t seem to work)

From my understanding, if SF and DR has the same score, DR will be 2nd and SF will be 3rd, and there won’t be a shared 2nd place.

At least that’s how I read it, since world rating wise, DR (1232.0845) is slightly higher than SF(1220.4288) at the moment.

See this nerf coming over a month ago, when Anet nerf champ box and the FG train, can’t say I am surprise at all.

ps. nerf DQ train thread pop every few weeks, this one just happened right around the time Anet decide to do something about it.

No zerging for previous four winds, the complains from that arc were mostly people from SEA having high ping, and the norn boss in that “drinking game” is near impossible to beat without exploit.

But since it merge with QJ arc(the origin of champ train), I am sure some form of zerg fest is guarantee.

For some reason, I don’t think bashing dragon goes well with China release.(although the Jade skin may sell well there)