Guild Wars 2

Sizer.3987:

I dont get it. Did anet state legendary gear will be getting higher stats now? What is this “gear ladder” the OP is talking about?

OP got it into its mind that there will be a gear ladder and since new legendarys cant be made 2 identical ones some how people wont be able to do 2 identical old legendaries

It basicly just a mad rant at this point hehe

Tuthan.3250:

Will we still be able to gamble for precursor from mystic forge in HoT?

Any precursor thats in the game now you will be able to get from mystic forge, drop as well as mastery line.
The new ones only from mastery line.

Random.4691:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Chef has always been 400.

There’s been no mention of L500 crafting for Jeweler or Chef. There will be the new Scribe crafting discipline, though.

Good luck.

Ya I was having a moment, I meant 500. They have mentioned cooking skill being upgraded to 500, I’m 99.9% sure they had a blog or a post about cooking being raised and new foods introduced. I really don’t feel like digging atm but I’ll see if I can find it.

Afraid not the only cooking they have had is that cooking show on their twitch channel mate.

Aomine.5012:

blokejoe.6590:

We are still going to be able to mystic forge the old legendarys if we have the materials after launch of HOT or are we going to have to use the tracker system only going forward?

You would only get PRECURSOR from masteries.
You still need all the other mats you used to craft Legendaries, like Gift of Fortune.

There’s no other way to get the 1st gen legendary other than using Mystic Forge or buy them on TP0.

Bolded at this moment yes but when hot hits in less then a week you will be able to get all precursors old and new once each account from mastery line.
So then you will be able to get all of old precursors to form into legendarys that way aswell.

To answer the OP after getting the old precursor any way you like crafting mystic forge or trading post.

You will have to combine it the same way as before in the mystic forge, to get said legendary.

You wont sell at a profit before 400+ and even then its not by much, I would sugest you just salvage it to get back materials to craft more.

Were do people get all these rumors? If it aint a red post dont belive it.

You do know that both chef and jeweler already are 400 right random.
Hence why the OP ask if they will be bumped to 500.

To answer the OP there have been no word on if either of these will be increased

Yea like what the hell did you do to make this person that upset.

Edit
Oh you said something in guild chat that this person and probabely more dident find being in good taste and they got angry with you now you try to say they are the toxic ones.
Got it, please delete this thread and quit that guild since they dont want anything more to do with you.

Nope not back yet………

No let the poor monkey king keep his special staff animation.

Its the weekend normal people dont work on weekends
says the security guard at his work desk

Penarddun.6827:

Yes, I read that page, and re-read that page. Attaching the exact page I am referencing in my original post is obviously not helpful… :/

I realize the Ultimate says Additional Character Slot. But what I am trying to have clarification on is based on the wording with the ** which is a link that says when buying the Standard, you get an extra character slot if you bought the base game before the date specified.

My specific question is… if I buy the Ultimate, will that give me 2 character slots…. or will the “Additional Character slot” mentioned in the list be replaced/merged by the extra character slot received from the double asterisk noted bonus that the Standard gets as well?

Hopefully that made my original post more clear.

Yes it do since do you see the first check box where it say *standard*on the ultimate offer?
That mean you get everything that the standard edition gets ( in this case the veteran character slot.)

And your second question that specific slot was added every friday so your boy should get it at release day.

Np happy to help

There is no problem, I dont even seen the need for adding a blank legendary swap item.
With the new and old legendarys we will be able to dual wield any weapon anyway.

zxstanyxz.8769:

Stitch.1794:

As I understand it, yes. The recipes for the original legendaries are not changing in any way, we are just gaining an extra way to aquire the precursor.

HoT will provide a new way to get new pre-cursors, all previous precursors will only be acquired by the same methods they always have been

Yes and no

No = hot will provide a way to work on any existing or new precursor weapons not just the new ones.

Yes = you will be able to get the old precuror weapons from all the old ways like random drop champ bags and mystic forge.

Yes copied the wrong one, its alittle over half way down the first page. ( on a fun side not that was the only red post in the whole 16 page thread that ended 11 days later so the more info next week dident seem to happen)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/balance/PvE-Revising-the-DPS-Meta/first

We are trying to take steps to address some of the dominance of Berserker/DPS players. More info next week, I think.

Jon

Wing.8326:

There only needs to exist at least one case where the implementation of this protocol would improve the situation for users for the whole change to be considered an improvement.

Nearly all items fluctuate in price. What I am talking about is reasonably permanent price changes. For example, I think there is a buy offer on spark for 10g. When the game first came out, that might have been a reasonable price for spark and it may have sold at that price. It is reasonable to say that the price of spark has been permanently increased.

This is just an example. The history of spark is irrelevant. It’s just reasonable to say that someone who is trying to sell and item whose price has been drastically decreased for a long duration will likely never sell that item. They would need to repay the listing fee to be able to sell it.

And thats exactly how it should be or people will put up for insane prices to hope to sell it and if they dont they will be auto merged down to what a person is willing to buy with your system.

So someone actualy knowing what people are willing to buy for will get penalized just becouse they put up their item later so the one who put their item up a6 months ago as world first will get its sold?

Silvatar.5379:

Well I will be (dam)ned, I guess I have been 500 with everything for so long that I have never bothered to notice the inconsistencies between the two ratings with some of the items, ie. ascended gear. I stand corrected, thanks for the information.

There you go FluentFox, level up a bit and you can start making some ascended mats if crafting is your thing. Best of luck.

Np I wouldent have known it either if I wasent a slow/cheap bloke leveling up my crafts daily by it

Sidenti.6035:

Shadowstar.4306:

That’s a shame. I’ll have to find it at one of those 3rd party retailers mentioned. It’s actually on sale on G2A right now for $34, so I’ll probably end up picking it up from there.

I understand they have a business to run, but $50 is way too much for an expansion, I think. Guess I gotta deal with the price if I want the content, though.

Baby, they’re still getting their $50. No matter who you get it from. So, don’t lose any sleep over your purchase! You’ll get yours, ANet will get theirs, all’s good. -Sid

How are they getting their 50 bucks? if OP only pay 34 bucks from a country that have another economy so anet have to sell it cheaper to that countrys people?

Gotejjeken.1267:

Wait, is the acquisition method for ALL legendaries changing? I was under the impression that the current ones would still use gifts while the new ones the path?

They arent talking about the legendaries themselfs just the precursors to make those legendaries.

Silvatar.5379:

Look closely at your 3rd pic down: Bolt of Damask level requirement for Armorsmithing is 500 (it is the same with Deldrimor Steel). It also indicates the crafting level for Leather work is 500 as well (you can see both of them are red which means that you can not make it with that particular character). The level requirements for ascended mats are different for some crafting professions. In the 2nd pic you can see that huntsman can make leather squares at 425 while other crafting professions have to wait till 500.

That is to use them to craft items not to make them its the left box (requierd rating)

Also note on my earlier pictures the ascended boots I cant craft are marked in red text the whole name meaning i cant craft it.
Bolt of damask and elonian leather is orange meaning i can craft it.

Look Im making it at 462

Silvatar.5379:

Linken.6345:

RoseofGilead.8907:

My bad. For some reason I thought those were a 500 only item.

Np mate we’r only human so errors are in our nature

Actually Rose is right in this case. The OP is talking SPECIFICALLY about Armorsmithing (its only in the thread title), and armorsmithing requires level 500 to make ascended mats to sell (as I suggested in my first post). I don’t know why you are bringing up artificing other than to try and prove yourself right but like you said, “we’re only human so errors are in our nature”.

Well since my armor crafter is 500 I cant show it on that one but Leather crafter is only 462 and there is no reason a leather crafter should be able to craft bolt of damask and a armor crafter cant.

Edit
I even put in a ascended recipe I cant craft to show you the differance.
If you have trouble seeing it check the square on the left not the one to the right

Edit 2
I find it really odd that you think armor crafting would work diffrently then artificing or any of the other crafts when making ascended materials?.

What would be anets gain in making the crafting disciplines diffrent in when they can make ascended materials?

Silvatar.5379:

Linken.6345:

Since all classes can be ranged how are you forced to melee on any of em?

I am confused. Who is talking about being “forced” to melee??? The OP is just asking for advice about a fun, noob friendly class that can perform well in WvW….oh, and he likes melee so I assume he would like suggestions to take this into account.

I kinda have hard time picking a class now, i like melee but i feel they are weak in wvw (big fights).

Hence why I responded the way I did.

Are you maybe thinking of this?

https://forum-en.gui...rst#post3480529

I think that was back when they made changes to critical damage calculation.

We dont know……………………………………………………………….

No it do not I got my first and only pre from a green champ bag, know this for a fact since i only opened my greens that day.

Since all classes can be ranged how are you forced to melee on any of em?

RoseofGilead.8907:

My bad. For some reason I thought those were a 500 only item.

Np mate we’r only human so errors are in our nature

RoseofGilead.8907:

Linken.6345:

You can start doing the ascended mats at 450 not 500

The refined dragonite/empyreal/bloodstone stuff, yeah. But you can’t make the sellable ascended mats (damask, elonian leather, deldrimor steel) until 500.

Very odd indeed since I can do them on my artificer, I just cant use them

StinVec.3621:

Eggie.4602:

Am i out the money if i erased the character. my bad

You can try contacting support and explaining the situation to them. Perhaps they will be able to reimburse or restore the lost item(s).

https://help.guildwars2.com/anonymous_requests/new

edit:
(Fleshy, you ninja…)

And Inculpatus cedo.9234 is a more effective ninja

Zetsumei.4975:

Stinja.9612:

@ Zetsumei It’s pretty common knowledge in this day/age that you don’t pre-order, let alone fully pre-purchase a game anymore unless you’re entirely sure you’re going to be playing it, regardless what happens or is offered.

Yeah I feel like an idiot, was amongst the latest of my friends to buy the expansion (just before the last beta weekend) being cynical the whole way through as my reason and now I feel like I’ve been swindled on the last minute. Sigh and I was sitting there thinking the time window between then and the expansion was too short to get mugged off.

And you can always ask for a refund like some people have done and even got after spending gems for items, that was then deleted from their accounts at said refund.

So anet could have said sorry you spent some/all of the gems already no refund, but instead did the honest thing even if it required work and let people get their refund.

You can start doing the ascended mats at 450 not 500

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

Look how old she is!

I play a lot!

Wait a minute how have you played 1 char 1 day longer then your total playtime across all chars that makes no sence

nope same as drytop

misterman.1530:

Got nothing at all to do with exchange rate…not exactly. At the current exchange rate, Canada should be paying $64 or $65 for the xpac…if you use the exact rate. They are bumping it up a few percentage points.

Sometimes it is cheaper to buy from a distributor in the US and have it shipped

And thats probabely the store that bump it up to get more profit for themselfs

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Even if they allowed people to unlock the new Living Story without owning the expansion, they still would not be able to play it as the instances, as far as we know, are all inside the new maps. Maybe there will be individual stories sections in the old maps, but the bulk of the story from now on will be in expansion maps, as they tell the story of going to fight the dragon.

I wouldent expect to be able to play it but it removes a wall that will forever be there in my consideration for buying expansion down the line or the next one.

Im wondering how many points you can get from only the first campain tho anyone got a answer for that?

Smokin Dice.9103:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Total AP gain: 500

only 500?
I thought it would be alot more..
how come so many people run around with 12-20k ap then?
I thought it had to do with gw1

I dont know much else I can do in gw2 for ap ^^

Its from all the one of content in living story season 1, old wvw tournaments, 3 years of hallowen, xmas etc.
oh and max out dailys/monthlys.

Edit
I dont have alot but you can see some of the historical stuff in my pictures

jules.8951:

Storywise sure. My concern is more about different content further down the line, like the long awaited return of the SAB or the “re-release” of season 1, if those become also “locked” behind HoT.

Sab any of the seasional festivals like xmas, hallowen, chinese newyear, wvw tournaments, etc will be access to all.
New living story will not you need hot. (hopefully you will be able to unlock but not play without hot, but that have not been confirmed by a dev)

BrooksP.4318:

Interesting thought, the lack of inspect could also be aiding in the toxicity and the need for meta in places like dungeons and fractals. When things are a blank slate people will get tired of failed geared/runed players who slows things down. Since there is little way to check diversity they take a all or nothing approach. Speedrunners could be more open to “non meta builds” so long as they make sense and show to work, however with no way to check this it creates a very reclusive environment.

This also leads to terrible checks such as AP checks, which is a terrible metric on a player’s skill.

The only problem is they dont give people time to show that it do work, they kick and try to get what they deem optimal.

Max age for the game

nekretaal.6485:

Dungeons aren’t going anywhere.

There’s still a Dungeon Achievement worth 200 AP & a very grindy Dungeoneer Achievement to do.

Dungeon Tokens are needed for all existing Legendary weapons as well as some very attractive, very expensive, non legendary weapons. The Halloween weapons all require dungeon tokens to craft for example.

And if the nerf isn’t that bad, it will not matter. Dungeon rewards were actually worse in the past when players primarily grinded dungeons for gold.

Let’s face it: the big XP and karma rewards for dungeons had to disappear. The dungeon completion pop up is still happening, and the gold numbers on that pop up are being tweaked.

We knew for a long time that the numbers on some paths were too high, so this move is long overdue. I simply hope that the numbers on the under-run paths like Aetherpath, or SE part 3 aren’t nerfed down too badly.

Oh I think you mean SE part 2 since 1 and 3 are run regularly

Dragon.4782:

I want to see Green Moas and Scaled Drakes added as tamable pets. If felines can get a new member, why not Moas and Drakes?

why leave out dogs, pigs, birds, bears, devourers, jelly fish, shark, armor fish and spiders mate?
I mean if moas and drakes can get a new member why not all the others to?

counter question why should they give out new content to people who dont buy the expansion?
You dont continue to favor the game with cash by buying expansion so their development time shouldent be spent to give you content.

And I havent bought it either, so I dont expect content.

if you cant then your on diffrent server clusters one in eu and one na

Ranged is almost always lower damage then melee so no class will be on par except elementalist and engi but they are probabely to many buttons considering you dont want to mash alot of em

MrH.2591:

Customer support said I should be eligible for the free character slot and if I haven’t received it by the end of Friday they’ll sort me out. So it looks like all’s well that ends well.

Congrats Im happy you got your char slot in the end bud, shows that Anet support is going strong.

Celtic Lady.3729:

They want fractals to replace dungeons kitten -man content, basically.

Edit: I didn’t know the number five was a naughty word…

its actualy the a then s followed by the 5 that spells behind so thats why its naughty

Scientia.8924:

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

The follower list is useful. It lets you know how many people are stalking you.

This x100, and the dumbest part is, while they can’t message you if you block them, I’m pretty sure they can still see your location and verbally harass you over Map chat.

For a game that tries hard to minimize trolling, this actually makes it really easy

You do know if you blocked them you cant see whisper, say, mapchat, squad chat, command chat or party chat from that person right? So how can they harass you?

No wasent that the snowflake jewelery that you could salvage and get more snowflakes back to craft even more jewelery and get endless rewards.