Guild Wars 2

So my new guild is seemingly decent. I guess I don’t have all that much to go on but they’re very dungeon happy and they can do AC and TA. so I mean… there’s that? Right?

I’m excited to explore more of the depths of Tyria with them, but I think some of them who know me from here are under the false impression that I’m this amazing speed runner and well… yall know I’m not lol. Anyway, it’s interesting. The most important part is that I can talk as dirty and awful as I want and they seem pleased with it. Hooray!

To be totally honest I don’t think there is a single one of us who hasn’t name shamed on this forum. Whether it is unacceptable or not (which I did say, that was wrong of him) I’m pretty sure the only reason he was shamed for it by community members is based on the biases yall have. I’m just asking that instead of starting a fight here that we all try to put the biases aside and read like logical individuals.

Congratulations to all the winners! 2 winners requested the incarnate armor, and one the Magitech. Interesting choices!

Look out for the next contest. Will be posted this week sometime.

spoj.9672:

You really need to stop taking a dump on that lovely floor Lilith.

:P

Ps. The reason I said the above is because the second a mod reviews ANY post in this thread is the day were all Perma banned.

Kindly keep this out of the thread. Apart from naming the guild Ani did nothing wrong and if you guys could get over your biases against him and read it for what it’s worth it would make you laugh. Please keep the frustrations with each other out of here. Thanks.

Lol. Ladderboards. I know you’re kidding Nevets. But man.

You are my favorite engi fractaling in NA.

My lady Norn uses the incarnate shoulders boots and top, with flame kissed helm, gloves, and leggings. Also depending on the body build a light norn female can look great in winged.

maha.7902:

what’s your opinion on

fashion

What’s your opinion on…

Eating baguettes

maha.7902:

hey lilith

….

:)

Hi colesy!

Trice.4598:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Sam revives me just so he can see moar of this bod.

Fear no more Lilith, the Staff Pug guardian is here!

That scares me more than dying because my under leveled tush is graveling fodder.

Oh so I did a level 49 fractal with our prophet, FenrirSlakt (I only joined the group because I saw him in it) and we had 6 minutes until reset (we wanted to finish after reset). So we get Mai trin to her final phase and we have 6 minutes… so we kite her around not hitting her but our staff guard is.

The prophet whispers me “if he were hitting her with something other than staff I’d we worried”.

The prophet has spoken and thus it shall be known: bring staff guards if you need to kill time.

Ps. That kitten staff guard got a fractal mace, but he already had it. -.-

Oh and then the prophet soloed 5% of the aetherpath final boss for us. Hail the prophet!

We were so bored, we did TA aetherpath, and had fun.

Eh I don’t think it’s silly at all. There are some amazing shield skins that would be wonderful as back pieces (shield of the moon I think it’s called and dragons jade to name a couple). Believe it or not backpieces are severely limited especially if you’re looking to match dyes or gear style. This would give some amazing options.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/A-Moment-of-Sobriety/first#post4053020

Omg. It’s like real life. In a comic.

Hamfast.8719:

Congrats, all! Strong competition! I guess I’ll have to live without my dream armor pieces for awhile longer. I knew I was doomed the moment I saw on another thread that you despise the term “mix ‘n’ match”, Lilith. I seriously considered editing that out of my entry. I’ll know better next time. (I hope there is a next time! I love making creative screen caps!)

If you’re still doing it, I noticed that you are part of something called “Dungeon Mentors”. I may have to avail myself of your services someday, as Dungeons are the only way I’ll get a few of the pieces I crave for the Mix ‘n’… uh, Mexican look I’m shooting for next. (Whew! Saved that one!)

Hahaha mix and match didn’t hurt your chances. I’m a big fan of your RP and story work. These screens just blew me away. Hope to see you in noob and in the next contest!

Sam revives me just so he can see moar of this bod.

Mithyl.8620:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Mithyl.8620:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

All of you appear really bad at light armor fashion, you basically just handed it to him. Ah well. Message me or post here and let me know which armor set you wish to own. Disclaimer This isn’t true, many of you made lovely light armored characters, but xsquared’s Mesmer is a wonderful example of making it look good.

Ouch. Joking or not, that’s a bit harsh…

Congrats winners!

I can be harsh when im joking.

And when you’re not? :p

Mmm. Well. You’ll know.

Mithyl.8620:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

All of you appear really bad at light armor fashion, you basically just handed it to him. Ah well. Message me or post here and let me know which armor set you wish to own. Disclaimer This isn’t true, many of you made lovely light armored characters, but xsquared’s Mesmer is a wonderful example of making it look good.

Ouch. Joking or not, that’s a bit harsh…

Congrats winners!

I can be harsh when im joking.

Winners Announced

This contest was unbelievably tough to judge. There were amazing screens all around, and everyone seems to understand fashion pretty freaking well.
So what it ended up coming down to was screen quality and my personal biases given dyes, background, all of that jazz.

I must first congratulate the TRUE Lilith’s choice. The first screen is below. This, however, was not entered as an entry. So therefore it could not win. I post it because I just love it. I would love to see more amazing fashion/dye/background combos like this. Plus Howler. Win.

Lilith’s Choice:

Mr Finesse’s Norn Guardian. This screen is phenomenal, so phenomenal that I forgive the use of staff. Message me or post here and let me know which armor set you wish to own.

Medium Category:

Alvarez Azel’s Lisa Novella. Wonderful Asura. Message me or post here and let me know which armor set you wish to own.

Light Category:

XSquared. It was a toughy. All of you appear really bad at light armor fashion, you basically just handed it to him. Ah well. Message me or post here and let me know which armor set you wish to own. Disclaimer This isn’t true, many of you made lovely light armored characters, but xsquared’s Mesmer is a wonderful example of making it look good.

”Cat”egory:

DeSade’s kitty thief. I love her. I want to snuggle her. She is in a world of her own and I love it. Message me or post here and let me know which armor set you wish to own.

Honorable Mentions:

Iris’s Elementalist: I love her. And what you did in the screen. She’s awesome, but I guess I would have liked to see all of her armor, it was just a little blurry and tough to see.

Laar’s Guardian: Holy crap. You did some amazing things with that Charr. Props to you!

Kirin’s warrior was winning until I saw Finesse’s Guardian. I love her look, she’s exceptionally badkitty.

Thank you all for participating. Next week we will see another contest. I love you all!

Anierna.6918:

Like, Arah p4 legit or Arah p4 expedited (skip up to lupi then skip after Simin)?

I did not know it was expedited easily. Well. What’s the time difference?

Is anyone interested in teaching me arah p4 proper today after my lunch is over? I’m wondering how this path could have felt if I had people who knew what they were doing showing me how. I’m looking at you, Dub, Colesy, Sam, Ani, Gabe (if you had an NA account), etc. Please. I have an itching for it for some reason.

Anierna.6918:

Dungeon forum new LFG tool? 0.o

Wanted better than pugs. Got better than pugs ^^

Trice.4598:

xallever.1874:

I did receive a Scarlet slaying potion from Lilith!

#truestory

Legend says Lilith is 10 foots tall, has 4 arms and 12 tentacles and can knot cherry with her lady part. Can you confirm any of those things?

I can confirm that this is factual.

Ropechef.6192:

legendary Dub lag scares me…. or i would seriously consider a Eu account.

I don’t actually get much lag on my EU account.

hendo.1940:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

God cat it. Why is everyone on freaking eu.

Better question is why you are not. Your playtimes fit EU better than NA.

#Served.

God cat it. Why is everyone on freaking eu.

Absurd. Frankly absurd.

Y u no have day off and be on NA when I do?!

chef and I ARE pro RPers… =/

RP1337ists.

You could just do that after.

I refuse to accept no one is interested.

Also, I’ll be on voice chat! So if you love my sexy voice, be there.

Looking to form this lvl 38 fractal out of you sexy butt forumers. We’ve got me on ele and Chef on whatever we want him to be. There might be presents from me. So anyway first come first served. We are starting at 8:30 AM EST. Don’t make me pug kitties.

Anomaly.7612:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

You can use the forge recipe. It’s a bunch of Sprockets + t1 dust + t2 dust + 1 blade shard.

Alternatively you can mine the sprocket node in a home instance, do aetherblade fractal, do TA aether path, or the JP for an unspecified amount of blade shards

Which fractal has Aetherblades?

…the aether blade fractal. With the room and the zappy walls.

DigitalKirin.9714:

I don’t have a male norn.

Make 5.

No Pulse.2967:

And I don’t have a light-armor one :/

….Make one

Enaretos.8079:

I actually like lurking the BLTC forums just to have my daily dose of Wanze :>

I like Vol. Even though he’s super snarky at me sometimes.

Well honestly I’m fine with it. Ascalon is a pretty rare fractal and if it’s as bad as you say redoing swamp really isn’t that bad.

People in the bltc forum are worse than the stacker skipper haters I will never go back to that dreadful place

tolunart.2095:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

…they’re sillier than I thought.

This is generally true. I’ve tried to underestimate the average person, but so far I’ve always failed.

scratches head

I honestly didn’t know. I think I’ll go back to my home forum now. Bai.

laokoko.7403:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Okay maybe I’m unclear here. If you don’t actively try for precursors, you likely won’t get them. As a mob drop I received 1: Storm. The rest were random forges of random rares or random exotics. If you don’t try you won’t get it. Simple. Doesn’t matter how long the game is out nor your playtime.

I think it’s quite obvious if you keep throwing things in forge you’ll get something eventually. Some people just keep throwing and keep reselling.

People are probably talking about as random drop.

If that’s what they’re talking about they’re sillier than I thought.

tolunart.2095:

Leamas.5803:

There is enough anecdotal evidence to show there are issues with the RNG.

Argument fails right there. At any given moment there are tens of thousands of people, at least, playing this game. “Look at these twelve people, this proves RNG is broken,” doesn’t even begin to offer enough data to do anything.

This.

Because statistics, yo. I took that class I think.

Xae Isareth.1364:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Xae Isareth.1364:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I’m loving what I’m seeing!

Just a reminder that 3 screens/characters/dungeons are absolutely mandatory for entrance into judging. Certain exceptions (like the Coe photoshop) ARE acceptable but there will be points off in my judging for it not having 3 dungeons. But there absolutely must be 3 fashionable characters of the different weights

Just curious though, do you need to have characters in all 3 armor weights? Or cna you just enter with 1 character?

Also, does FotM hub count as a dungeon?

Yes and yes.

Is that a yes to you can enter with only 1 character or a yes to you have to have all 3 weights?

I don’t have a medium-armor character you see

EDIT: Oh dang.

Make one!

Xae Isareth.1364:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I’m loving what I’m seeing!

Just a reminder that 3 screens/characters/dungeons are absolutely mandatory for entrance into judging. Certain exceptions (like the Coe photoshop) ARE acceptable but there will be points off in my judging for it not having 3 dungeons. But there absolutely must be 3 fashionable characters of the different weights

Just curious though, do you need to have characters in all 3 armor weights? Or cna you just enter with 1 character?

Also, does FotM hub count as a dungeon?

Yes you need 3 charss and yes.

Okay maybe I’m unclear here. If you don’t actively try for precursors, you likely won’t get them. As a mob drop I received 1: Storm. The rest were random forges of random rares or random exotics. If you don’t try you won’t get it. Simple. Doesn’t matter how long the game is out nor your playtime.

Leamas.5803:

tolunart.2095:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I know I can wait and all that. I have 2 legendaries as it is and over the course of my playtime have had 6 precursors drop. I know. The issue is that in the same amount of playtime, I’m just not getting anything… My enjoyment of the game is somewhat contingent on whether I get some loot or not. If i don’t think I’m going to get anything I might as well stay in DR RPing. Which I do.

Congrats on the drops. Random distribution via computer is as close as anything gets to being fair, the computer doesn’t have friends or enemies to reward or punish. The way our minds work, however, looks for patterns even when there is no pattern to find. So many of those arguing against random precursor drops and such do so from the assumptions that it’s not “fair,” that they are “cursed” and will never see a precursor drop, etc.

Good to see you understand this is not the case.

There is enough anecdotal evidence to show there are issues with the RNG. Over time true RNG will ALWAYS balance in to a nice Gaussian bell curve. Now if you take Lilith here, with 6 precursor drops. WOW, that is truly extreme odds breaking and I’ve heard of those with even more, 12, 15, etc. Others who claim to consistently make 40g/hour in Cursed Shore or the FS train while some have problems make 1g for the same effort. Some people with 4 and 5 legendaries, though I somehow think they probably got those from TP flipping. Those getting consistently good drops vs those getting consistently bad drops. I think most people sit somewhere in the middle, but now we’re talking groups of people where the RNG is weighted for good or bad and it’s not unheard of.

Sure everyone might have lucky/unlucky streaks, but because of the nature of RNG, over time drop quality should be fairly even across everyone. That is not what we’ve seen from this game.

I don’t think the game has been around long enough for that distribution curve to actually exist. It’s like… I had a couple lucky breaks. Very spread out. Each precursor was approximately 2 months apart. Anyway there’s also a lack of reliable data on this because almost everyone who doesn’t get their precursor will whine here. Everyone who does will not necessarily brag here (the do that in map or guild).

tolunart.2095:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I know I can wait and all that. I have 2 legendaries as it is and over the course of my playtime have had 6 precursors drop. I know. The issue is that in the same amount of playtime, I’m just not getting anything… My enjoyment of the game is somewhat contingent on whether I get some loot or not. If i don’t think I’m going to get anything I might as well stay in DR RPing. Which I do.

Congrats on the drops. Random distribution via computer is as close as anything gets to being fair, the computer doesn’t have friends or enemies to reward or punish. The way our minds work, however, looks for patterns even when there is no pattern to find. So many of those arguing against random precursor drops and such do so from the assumptions that it’s not “fair,” that they are “cursed” and will never see a precursor drop, etc.

Good to see you understand this is not the case.

Anyone who has played the game long enough knows that every undocumented figure people give is exaggerated. “I’ve tried 2000 times in the toilet!” “Yeah where’s the video?” “I have over 8k hours played and now precursor drop!” “Screenshot? No? Did you try ever? No? Oh you did get one, it was just Venom? OH okay.”

It’s fine. I get it. I just want my gorram chaos gun and I want it now. But I am unwilling to buy it with real money.

tolunart.2095:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I just know my loot has gone down so I am getting much less awesome than I used to. This makes me a sad Asura. I can’t afford the chaos gun I want. That sucks.

Keep at it. Several things can happen:

You’ll save up enough money to get one.
The market will shift and the price will drop to what you have already set aside.
New precursors/Legendaries will be introduced and the old ones will drop in price due to decreased demand.
An alternate method of obtaining a precursor will be introduced, depending on the specifics you may reach that goal quickly just because you have been playing the game.
You’ll get a precursor as a random drop, and if it’s not the one you want, you can sell it to buy the chaos gun.

Dusk dropped for me randomly last year, so I know that it can happen. Personally, I don’t care at all about Legendaries, the added graphics annoy me and the skins themselves are not that impressive. And I couldn’t care less whether or not people get jealous or are impressed when I walk by them and leave glowing footprints or shoot unicorns past their heads or whatever.

So I sold it and used the gold to gear up several alts and get the things I did want. I have sixteen toons and not one of them has anything more valuable than Tier 2 cultural armor, because I only buy the gear I like.

I know I can wait and all that. I have 2 legendaries as it is and over the course of my playtime have had 6 precursors drop. I know. The issue is that in the same amount of playtime, I’m just not getting anything. Could be rng. But it’s like… I hit a group of mobs. I kill all 10. By myself. And I get a trophy junk item. Now I know that it’s rng and my 300% mf isn’t going to rain precursors down on me, but I don’t see any reason to believe that these prices will go down or that whatever new method they come up with for precursor acquisition will actually be less time consuming. I just.. have to let it go, you know? That’s how I feel. My enjoyment of the game is somewhat contingent on whether I get some loot or not. If i don’t think I’m going to get anything I might as well stay in DR RPing. Which I do.

tolunart.2095:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I’m not entirely sure how this is a reply to me.

“Nerfing loot” is not to blame for anything. Handing out too much loot, perhaps. But my point is that prices are completely the responsibility of the players, not Anet. The more players who grind, the more loot is generated, the higher prices climb. This is because there are a limited number of rare items (precursors, Fused skins, Grinning Shield, etc.) and a lot of people competing for them.

The entire system is driven by players. Blaming Anet is like saying “rain makes the poppies grow, drug dealers harvest the poppies and make drugs, therefore Nature is responsible for the drug problem.”

Prices are high because players want rare items. Hand every player a precursor of his choice and the majority of players will be disappointed because suddenly every third player has Twilight or Bifrost or whatever, and no one feels special.

K.

I didn’t really come in here to argue. I did say it was my uneducated opinion. Thanks for educating me.

I just know my loot has gone down so I am getting much less awesome than I used to. This makes me a sad Asura. I can’t afford the chaos gun I want. That sucks.

Anyway carry on.

tolunart.2095:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

It’s a very great thing, the TP. flipping isn’t even the problem here. It’s the nerfs to overall loot, in my humble uneducated opinion.

The market is player driven and the value of an item is set by the players, not Anet. They set a minimum value (vendor price) to most items, but the maximum value is whatever any player is willing to pay.

Say Anet created a minipet: a penguin that would follow you around bearing a flag that says [charname] IS AWESOME. They only spawned 10 of these minis and put them on the TP for 1g each. Within minutes all 10 would be bought and relisted for hundreds of gold each, only to bought again and relisted for thousands, until the price grew beyond the capacity for anyone to pay for them.

What are these items really worth?

I’m not entirely sure how this is a reply to me.

But… items are obviously worth what others are willing to pay for them. Is a dusk worth 2k gold? Maybe. Depending on rares and exotic prices it’s entirely possible. But if no one buys it… well it isn’t.

It’s like… you can get black lion chest tickets. It costs a lot of gold to do this, but I’m willing to bet most people (like me) use real money on keys. The equilibrium initial price of a black lion weapon is what 60g? It probably costs more gold to get the ticket but people are not willing to buy a weapon for 100g (as a whole even if this is the average gold price it takes to get one) until the ticket number goes up.

Yep. I approve of any and all physics references with darling Asura.

Meet my Squaark. She had a nasty accident testing trans_dimensional travel and now her body is an intergalactic portal. She saved her head though and contained it properly. She’s okay. She itches sometimes in places she can’t scratch but all in all she’s happy.

tolunart.2095:

KOPPER.1458:

Just out of curiosity: Are you saying that you think a median transaction price of 1157g for dusk is acceptable?

Yes. That is the short answer. It isn’t about being acceptable or not sadly. It’s about what players will pay. According to his charts shown here players are buying them just fine. While I don’t agree with it many apparently think it’s acceptable.

The purpose of the TP is to allow players to trade items and gold with each other in a safe and efficient fashion. Would you rather that new players who don’t understand how valuable this “Dusk” that dropped from a random mob is get conned by players who trade them a crafted rare greatsword for it?

The other side of the coin, there were 54 unique sellers, some of them are surely “flipping” but the majority are just your average player who got a lucky drop and suddenly is over a thousand gold richer. It’s not one or two or even ten TP Barons sitting on thrones made of gold laughing as they manipulate the price for their own benefit.

Bolded is so true. When I was new to gw1 I did pretty searing a bunch and got a perfect salvage kit. The player I was with told me it was worth x and that they’d buy it from me, when it was actually worth like 10 times x.

It’s a very great thing, the TP. flipping isn’t even the problem here. It’s the nerfs to overall loot, in my humble uneducated opinion.

tolunart.2095:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

If there isn’t a Joan Smith I’d be willing to step up to that task.

Anyway dusk… yeah that’s an insane sell order. But ain’t nobody got gold fo that.

There are quite a few players who can afford 2k for a precursor. But why would they when they can place a buy order for 800g less and still get the item within a few hours?

My Joke was lost on you. How sad.

Y’all are making it super freaking hard for me.

Sigh.

Bring on the fashion.