Guild Wars 2

SirDrygan.1823:

What is NPE?……

New player experience added, i think it was april 2014

Its not out yet but maybe you can prepurchase it from gmaestop to get a code to add onto your account… dont mix it up with preorder.

probabely droped by the champ noone kills thats right next to tazza, hence why its so rare.

got my first and only pre at 2929 hours keep trying mate ( sadly it was howl thats the most broken legendary atm )

drowze.3709:

Algreg.3629:

I am sure you can manage. If not, well… intellect stuff… and so on.

While I agree OP’s English seems to be at a level where he can probably manage the game in English, that doesn’t mean people who can’t speak English have a lower intellect.

When GW2 released, I was actually surprised by the limited amount of languages it supported. It’s a decision they made years ago and I doubt they’ll support any new languages for GW2 in the future, though.

Limited you say what major language is there left except russian as stated in the thread

Noone can answer that mate

bronconose.6142:

Not for levellingup after 80, no. That doesn’t give mastery points; things like 100% map completion and maybe dungeon master will. You will get the mastery points from those retroactively, but only for that region not the new maps. It’s seperate masteries for the jungle and Tyria. Levelling up will give xp towards mastery tracks but that won’t be given retroactively, for now it’s just spirit shards

Its not even spirit shards for leveling up you get nothing.

Garambola.2461:

lukejoe.1592:

Yea…Not good enough. I’m not going to pre-order this game without more information and not buying the expac at all if the character slot is not included.

The choice is yours. The character slot for those who had registered the game before HoT was announced is only available until the end of this month. After that Standard Edition will not give a character slot.

They havent said that, they said aslong as you buy it before release and add the code you will get the character slot.

and some stuff you dont want higher tier of like silk is worth alot more then gossamer

No need with extra langauges the big ones are already supported

They dont give info during the weekend hold your horses. No mounts here =)

sephiroth.4217:

Thanks for the answers everyone!

(have tried my own group but I got kicked because I didn’t have story unlocked)

But will for sure try after reset from now on when it’s not a work day lol

About the kick part you just let someone else go into the dungeon first then join in.
If you advertise for explore and then go and open story ofcourse people are going to kick you.

Ragnarox.9601:

3000 gems. /15char

Not enough make that 300.000 gems, might aswell make a hefty profit if you want to destable your economy.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/

You may not buy, sell, transfer or auction (or host or facilitate the ability to allow others to buy, sell, transfer or auction) , or offer to transfer, sell or auction, or buy or accept any offer to transfer, sell or auction, any game Account or game Content, including (without limitation) game characters, character attributes, items, objects, currency, credits or copyrighted material, or any other intellectual property owned or controlled by ArenaNet, Inc., NCsoft, the Service, or our licensors, nor may you encourage or induce any other player to participate in such prohibited transaction(s), except as may be specifically authorized by the Service and by ArenaNet or NCsoft, without first obtaining our express written permission.

One could argue that your selling them currency in a way, like loansharks do.

They shouldent have to handle support effort for this kind of thing. If you want to gamble with your money trying to get others to pay you interest for a loan go ahead just dont go whining to support when it back fires.

You dont see people who gamble in the forge 500 1k 2k gold going to support saying they need help getting money back its the same thing in my mind.

Depends when did you buy you heroic edition was it before or after januari 23 2015?

If it was before and you prebuy hot and add it to your account before launch you will get a char slot worth 10$ if it was after from anet store you will upgrade to hot and only have to pay the diffrance in price for the expansion. (if you bought it for 10$ expansion will cost you 40$ adding up to a total of 50 for basic)

If you bought from a third party after januari 23 like amazon you will get a character slot as those before that date

I know its silly but have you missed any of the 5 major race towns perhaps like ratasum or the grove?

Edit
Oh I see your missing hearts so you have a area somewere that you havent done.

Yea fields of ruin are pretty hidden off to the side of iron marches only accessable from im and divinitys reach.

Taxidriver.2043:

all of the reasons above + char slot = $$$

Well wouldent cut in to the $$$ if it cost the same as another character slot.
They even kitten them self compared to people with more toons since they have to pay to switch out crafting disciplines and cant park their alts at jps for extra money.

krzygum.4028:

There’s quite a lot of possibilities. Why don’t you try some of them?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates

Good answer mate and welcome back OP grab some popcorn while you read.

Firelysm.4967:

emikochan.8504:

I got a precursor in a jp chest once, though the rewards are generally less because they’re much easier than any dungeon + you can park your characters there.

You can get precursor out of any chest so this is not really valid point. And dungeons are not harder then JPs. You have easy dungeons and kittenes, same goes for JPs. And there are longer JPs then longest dungeon in the game that currently exists. And also JPs need simple solution to prevent parking and mesmer portals simple as that, scroll above u’ll find my solution.

The thing is you still have to organize a dungeon run with 4 other people . When you have a jump puzzle that require you to complete it with a full group of 5 people and at the same time reach the finish to open the chest taking about 10-20 mins of hardship then you can have same rewards as a dungeon run imo.

ReV.6097:

I hope one day, when they get time, they’ll look into updating or reworking the battle of Zhaitan, completely..

Not going to happen when we got other dragons to fight.

Achrisos.1360:

I hear ya… When the patch came out I was telling a guildy about how my record was an 8.8k tick burn on my Guard and his answer was who cares you can hit over 30k with whirling wrath…..

I guess the ol saying is… Pics or it never happened! lol

It probabely did happen since he only did 4285 each on the 7 hits his whirling wrath did.

Kaiden Valor.7163:

Just to add on to what the others have said and to directly answer your first question:

You’ll still be able to play anything currently in the game. You will also be able to play on the new WvWvW borderland map without HoT, same with any additions specific to PvP such as the new game mode.

check this video. from 11:00-12:15
You will be able to access those maps but not use all of the features.

Khristophoros.7194:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Khristophoros.7194:

I tear through salvage kits way too fast!!

Khristophoros.7194:

And no I will not buy the copper fed kit.

You described your problem, and rejected the obvious solution all in one breath. Gem Store items are meant to convenience. You seem to desire said convenience, but aren’t willing to pay the price.

To use a real world analogy, it’s like saying you have an addiction to gambling and are seeking help, but you won’t stop gambling.

If you read the thread you would see that the copper fed kit isn’t convenient for my playstyle, so get off your high horse please.

ofcourse it is you just dont want it to be, you can get to a bank from anywere free of charge by going to pvp lobby the crossed sword top left corner.
You can even sell there to the laurel merchant.
What you cant do is equip your tools but thats a small price to pay to access bank from anywere right?

5 characters is nothing I have 7 80s and a 29 that all use the same 3 harvesting tools and salvageomatic.

Khristophoros.7194:

Linken.6345:

Khristophoros.7194:

Enko.6123:

Khristophoros.7194:

Thaddeus.4891:

Khristophoros.7194:

How many? My last chest didn’t give me too many IIRC. I’m nearing my next chest but I’m concerned that it won’t give me enough stones.

5 per chest, 10 per large chest, 15 per heavy chest and 25 per massive chest. By the time you get to 5k AP you should have around 100.

My question is do you use mystic salvage kit just for exotic and rare or for everything? Because 100 mystic stone is about 33 mystic salvage kit. When I was in farming mode at Silverwaste I was able to go througth 1 kit per week, but that was crazy time. I usually go througth 1 per months, which mean that I always have more stone than I need.

But if you salvage with them a lot, you man not receive enough stone.

I use them for everything. The extra coin from vendoring minor sigils/runes is kinda nice. Mostly I just don’t like to carry around basic kits though because they only have 25 uses. 50 uses on basics would be nice considering we do more salvaging these days compared to the old days.

Also I play on 5 different characters so moving a copper fed kit between them would not be convenient.

If you’re using mystic kits on salvaging greens and justifying it by the extra coin from vendoring minor runes/sigils, you’re wasting money.

Basic Kits cost 3.5c per use. Copper fed costs 3c per use. If you use gold to buy gems to get it, your issue with limited number of uses is solved AND you will get that money back eventually. Why you’re so adamant against a copper fed is a little odd since that is the solution to the problem you’re complaining about. If you think moving a single copper fed between multiple characters is inconvenient, then you’ll have to weigh the inconvenience of buying multiple salvage kits all the time vs moving a single kit (or buy multiple copper feds).

As for some numbers, I have tracked salvages on 4,995,572 items. This does not include the blue and green drops that I salvage as well. At a savings of .5c per salvage, this has saved me 247g 77s 86c on these items.

If you’re going for best cost efficiency:
Copper Fed: Blues and Greens
Master’s/Mystic’s: lvl 68+ rares under the cost of ectos and mats salvaged times 0.85
Black Lion: Exotics with valuable sigils and runes.

As somebody said already, it takes far too many salvages for the copper fed kit to pay for its initial cost.

You also forget that after most things I’ll need to go to a merchant in order to vendor junk and I can buy the basic kits at said merchant to salvage all my stuff. The extra step of going to the bank for the copper fed kit is inconvenient.

The reason I like the mystic kits is I can salvage stuff in the middle of a dungeon or fractal before I go back to the merchants. So I’d have to go to the bank before each dungeon or fractal if I used a copper fed kit.

Thats abit of a strech you have to do it once every character login are you saying you switch character every dungeon or fractal run?

Yes. I switch characters frequently since I get bored easily.

Well if you switch that regularly and I guess you got 20 slot bags right on all chars?
You would never have to salvage in the middle of a dungeon since you wont fill up your bags.
Fractals you only need to relog and get out to la and sell anyway.
Edit
So this thread was kinda pointless since by your own admition you dont have a trubble to go to merchants and buy kits, you switch chars so frequently anyway so you never have time to hit the bag slots cap.

TJgalon.5012:

I do wish hey can give us a slightly easier way to move these tools, but most time, i end a section with going to my borders, or moving to a map area with a user bank, like lionarch, or something easier like in the 5 beginner area maps.
Mostly, the mystic salvage kits wont be easy to keep up the use, I actually just made my 3rd one recently, and the tools might go a bit faster then it used to. You now just need to figure out what will be best for you, using this info you got from us.

You could just hit the cross swords go into the mist lobby from anywere and you got a bank there.

Khristophoros.7194:

Enko.6123:

Khristophoros.7194:

Thaddeus.4891:

Khristophoros.7194:

How many? My last chest didn’t give me too many IIRC. I’m nearing my next chest but I’m concerned that it won’t give me enough stones.

5 per chest, 10 per large chest, 15 per heavy chest and 25 per massive chest. By the time you get to 5k AP you should have around 100.

My question is do you use mystic salvage kit just for exotic and rare or for everything? Because 100 mystic stone is about 33 mystic salvage kit. When I was in farming mode at Silverwaste I was able to go througth 1 kit per week, but that was crazy time. I usually go througth 1 per months, which mean that I always have more stone than I need.

But if you salvage with them a lot, you man not receive enough stone.

I use them for everything. The extra coin from vendoring minor sigils/runes is kinda nice. Mostly I just don’t like to carry around basic kits though because they only have 25 uses. 50 uses on basics would be nice considering we do more salvaging these days compared to the old days.

Also I play on 5 different characters so moving a copper fed kit between them would not be convenient.

If you’re using mystic kits on salvaging greens and justifying it by the extra coin from vendoring minor runes/sigils, you’re wasting money.

Basic Kits cost 3.5c per use. Copper fed costs 3c per use. If you use gold to buy gems to get it, your issue with limited number of uses is solved AND you will get that money back eventually. Why you’re so adamant against a copper fed is a little odd since that is the solution to the problem you’re complaining about. If you think moving a single copper fed between multiple characters is inconvenient, then you’ll have to weigh the inconvenience of buying multiple salvage kits all the time vs moving a single kit (or buy multiple copper feds).

As for some numbers, I have tracked salvages on 4,995,572 items. This does not include the blue and green drops that I salvage as well. At a savings of .5c per salvage, this has saved me 247g 77s 86c on these items.

If you’re going for best cost efficiency:
Copper Fed: Blues and Greens
Master’s/Mystic’s: lvl 68+ rares under the cost of ectos and mats salvaged times 0.85
Black Lion: Exotics with valuable sigils and runes.

As somebody said already, it takes far too many salvages for the copper fed kit to pay for its initial cost.

You also forget that after most things I’ll need to go to a merchant in order to vendor junk and I can buy the basic kits at said merchant to salvage all my stuff. The extra step of going to the bank for the copper fed kit is inconvenient.

The reason I like the mystic kits is I can salvage stuff in the middle of a dungeon or fractal before I go back to the merchants. So I’d have to go to the bank before each dungeon or fractal if I used a copper fed kit.

Thats abit of a strech you have to do it once every character login are you saying you switch character every dungeon or fractal run?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge_Stone

Looks like you get
5 for a normal
10 for large
15 for heavy
25 for a massive

Edit
You also have a chance to get 1 at days 4, 11, 18, and 25. login reward.

Maybe they should add in mystic forge stones as a option in the 28 day chest.

Vavume.8065:

So what are the rewards for finishing personal story now? I know we used to get a legendary pact token (still have 3 in the bank) but what do you get now? and can we still use these old tokens?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pact_Victory_Token

Edit

what I wonder if I still have one of these can I exchange it anywere

But it dident get boosted, third post on first page is the source.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ascended-Gear-Anet-please-fix-this/first

ColinJohanson

Game Director

Next

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear (weapons and armor) next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ
(Edited to clarify weapons and armor)

Kal Spiro.9745:

Sure, just get Berzerker gear and you’ll make most people happy, whether or not you are.

Honestly, aren’t all games like this? Figure out which stats are important to you, get gear with those stats. Try to avoid stats not on your list.

Well said cant get much simpler then that…. well it can but do we want it to?

You pay for the convenience its the same with the infinite harvesting tools not many will use them enough so they pay for themselfs but they could if they liked.

Depends on who you bought it from

please add (wild speculation) into your thread title, so people can get into the thread in the right mind set

Chobits.2430:

Linken.6345:

Charrbeque.8729:

Hmm…I did pay attention. When my XP bar was almost filled on a level 80 character I checked the amount of hero points I had before and after ‘leveling up’. There was no change. It seems that we still go through the level up process and animation post level 80 but it doesn’t do anything or give us any kind of points.

I forgot to check my spirit shard count, but to my understanding for level 80 characters the only way to get them is as random loot drops from enemies, daily rewards, tomes of knowledge, etc., and not automatically granted once we fill our XP bar. And also to my understanding we were suppose to stop leveling once we reached level 80. Anything else that comes after that, like masteries and elite specializations, have to be obtained in a new way.

You will level up the mastery line bar with normal exp and unlock the skills from said line with hero points when expansion hits.

You are right atm nor will you ever gain hero or spirit shards from leveling at 80-
Atleast how it stands at this time.

This is incorrect.

The Mastery System is completely separate and has nothing to do with Hero Points. You select a Mastery to level such as Gliding. Then all experience you earn goes towards leveling that mastery. Once you level the selected Mastery by earning enough experience through kills and events, then you spend a Mastery Point to unlock the Mastery Skill. You earn Mastery Points by completing challenges, exploring certain areas, or completing a specific task. Hero Points have absolutely nothing to do with the mastery system.

I stand corrected forgot about the new master points for awhile

Yea i totaly dont see people abuse this to get cheap cloth ascended at all.

Great the youtube video talks about personal story…. its made to be easy since now you outlevel it before you can even start it.

The tentonhammer article is wrong about the challenging group content

http://www.gamezone.com/previews/interview-talking-guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-with-arenanet-s-development-director-jsmh

“Is there going to be small group instanced content — basically, are there going to be dungeons?

We will be detailing more of the hard challenging content.

The Wyvern fight is a good example of what we are looking for and doing more of in the future. That Wyvern fight, if you think about it, that’s just in the open world potentially – well it was in our demo and that’s more of the stuff that will be in the open world.

If you take that even further, you can see, sort of, what you can extrapolate out and see what we are thinking about for challenging hard group content in the future.

We will talk about it as we get closer to the launch date."

So the wyvern is just a step in the right direction.

Farm keys or buy them open black lion chests get teleport to friend stones use said stones to warp to a friend on every map you want to unlock.
There you got maps unlocked

Charrbeque.8729:

Hmm…I did pay attention. When my XP bar was almost filled on a level 80 character I checked the amount of hero points I had before and after ‘leveling up’. There was no change. It seems that we still go through the level up process and animation post level 80 but it doesn’t do anything or give us any kind of points.

I forgot to check my spirit shard count, but to my understanding for level 80 characters the only way to get them is as random loot drops from enemies, daily rewards, tomes of knowledge, etc., and not automatically granted once we fill our XP bar. And also to my understanding we were suppose to stop leveling once we reached level 80. Anything else that comes after that, like masteries and elite specializations, have to be obtained in a new way.

You will level up the mastery line bar with normal exp and unlock the skills from said line with hero points when expansion hits.

You are right atm nor will you ever gain hero or spirit shards from leveling at 80-
Atleast how it stands at this time.

used up 10 keys got 3 scraps so above poster seem right 30% drop rate

and before you got them just for leveling up i thought that was why they started droping from mobs so dubble down on the nerf hammer you mean?

They farmed for a unkown beta, they got a date and time. That they then couldent attend is not anets fault

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Yeah I preferred the old system better. Before I could complete my daily while I was leveling an alt. Barely ever had to go out of my way to get it done. It didn’t feel forced, it was just something that happened naturally as you played.

Now you have to go out of your way of normal game play just to get it done. And if you don’t do fractals or world boss events, you’re pretty much not going to get it if you don’t PvP either. It’s no longer just fun to do as you level, now it feels like a chore.

Yes and its a daily you should do something specific not get it by doing what ever, might aswell take it away then.

TGI FRIDAY.6275:

Can anyone confirm that the new WvW map and PvP mode is pre expansion?

Its great that you cant brows blogpost yourself.

Your question could have been answered by reading the first line in two blogposts.

Hello, my name is Tyler Bearce, a Game Designer here at ArenaNet, and I’m here to tell you about the new World vs. World desert Borderlands map that we’ve been hard at work creating for the Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns™ expansion.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/essential-elements-of-the-new-borderlands/

If you can’t wait for Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns™ to get your hands on the new Stronghold PvP game mode

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-stronghold-pvp-public-beta-is-coming/

Dreamslayer.7659:

I finally made the last blade pack I was missing – the blue one because I needed a Rabid/condi back.

I think the green cores are pretty reasonable, it’s still a decent way to make an ascended back.

Still sitting on 6 red 6 blue and 4 green cores myself waiting for if we can get them again later when Living story s1 is released again.

DeadlySynz.3471:

You know what a simple solution would be that should hush everyone?

Make 2 sets of content, open world and instanced. Open world is easier, instanced tougher. Both give the same rewards.

That way, those who want the challenge, get their challenge. Those who want an easy ride, get their easy ride. Both get rewarded equally, everyone is happy. Nobody can complain unless they feel they are entitled to something more because what they did was tougher.. in which case, that would be your own problem at that point.

If rewards stay the same 99% of the humans would then take the easy way out its human nature…. if you want it easier you get easy rewards aswell. 50% nerf to teqatl 4 ½ dragon chests and ½ ascended boxes so you need two drops to combine into a full chest.

Both get their rewards just slower, I would like this aswell give me 1 ½ chests of each if I do both events during the day or ½ if I dont get into same map as my guild that day.

Edit
Ofcourse the already abyssmal drop rates are halved aswell on the easier run

and guards would be exluded since their 5th attacks do fire

No they can only select the last personal story they havent done zenleto its not replayable like living story season 2.

TGI FRIDAY.6275:

Ranatoa.4869:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Between the title of the thread and the opening statement/question, it’s a bit confusing.

Is your query about what you might receive before release, or after release?

Either way, you can read about all the upcoming new maps and game modes for WvW and PvP in the News blogs accessed through the link above.

Good luck.

Yeah this…. I went ahead and answered what you will get from purchasing the expansion.

The WvW map and Stronghold are going to be available regardless of purchase.

Why is it being advertised as being a part of the expansion? Stronghold is being listed as a feature for HoT. If it’s being added before the expansion, is it really part of it?

Its not being added before expansion, the other poster is just mixing it up with not having to have hot to use said features.

considering the first minor change the shroud I would say we wont get that and you cant change minors on any other specialisation either so why should the elite be any dif?