Guild Wars 2

Ayrilana.1396:

PseudoNewb.5468:

Ayrilana.1396:

Skill points, regardless of the sources, are converted to shards.

Old skill points in excess of those earned by leveling and skill challenges will be converted into crafting materials for the Mystic Forge.

I would like to point out that the old article does put a stipulation on shard conversion based on its sources, but you claim it is regardless of the source.
The stipulation of “in excess of those earned by leveling and skill challenges” seems to be very problematic to implement, so I hope Anet simply removes it like you suggest and gives everyone bonus shards.

Yeah. When I originally read it my first thought was what a few people here assumed and that you’d lose the excess sp from world completion. But I then thought of how could they possibly track how each point originated from this far into the game. It made more sense that they’d all be converted. There is the technically a way I suppose but there’s a flaw in it.

If anyone is worried about taking a loss because I this, I suggest that you spend all of the skill points currently in your characters towards something that you know you will use in the future such as augur stones or bloodstone shards. This might not be feasible if you have quite a lot though.

thats if you havent unlocked all/most of your skills already.

Those are spent skillpoints we dont know if you will get back and you will use the same nr of skillpoints to unlock the skills again anyway.

eu or na? would be helpful info to know

Yamsandjams.3267:

Muusic.2967:

ades.1386:

No. HoT isnt coming out next patch..
For now leveling up past 80 will grant skill points and youll be able to use them.

This is in direct conflict with what the post said, “Leveling up after level 80 no longer grants skill points, but level 80 characters will be able to loot spirit shards off of monsters.”

This is why i’m asking for clarification because it’s either going to be wasted XP or business as usual between the time the spirit shards are implemented and when HoT is released.

IIRC, your current amount of skill points you have will be converted to a certain amount of those shards. So if you level up and gain a skill point, that will earn you something when the updates occur. As to how much one skill point will be worth of the new currency, I can’t say. We don’t have those exact details yet. There will no longer be skill points once the specialization changes occur.

Note that masteries is an entirely separate concept that will not come until HoT, but the specialization implementation will be happening before that. Masteries have nothing to do with skill points going away.

If you want, you can earn your skill points now and just spend them on stuff, but if you just stock them up then they should not go to waste, in theory.

Way to miss the question we know all that in this thread.
What the OP asks is since trait changes coming before hot in a feature patch then the hero point conversion and spirit shard change should come then to, since if it dont we cant buy our skills.

What happens to the exp we get past 80 after core specialisations update and untill hot launches is it wasted?

It will be locked and you will have to open up to the point in what ever tree you need to get said skills back.
Tornado for elementalist for example is the last in cantrips line f i remember right so you will have to unlock all the other cantrips first.

why should he/she get spirit shards for the skillpoints thats converted into hero points?
thats like having the cake and eating it to.

Yea this is a good question since the trait change come before hot. So should the hero and spirit shard conversion…. maybe they release vanila masteries tracks or make us earn spirit shards in the mean time.

well if you only have 100 sp and its mostly from lvling up and skill challenges i would say use them…… the thing is if you sit on 300 points you have to use em all to use up, since you cant know witch are from leveling, skill challenges or post 80 levels.

Only way it will make a dif is if you have few like 3 utility 1 elite unlocked only.

Then ran around got all the skill point challenges and converted to materials that way you will get materials and those skill challenge points/skillpoints for leveling to 80 converted to hero points when the change hits.

its a gold sink it vanishes for you being safely able to sell/buy items without being scammed.

Ardid.7203:

Ok, I just want to clear ONE point.
If I get all the skills on a character with the minimum level possible, just by buying most skills with skillpoints from skill scrolls, without ever doing any skill challenge will I receive any hero points in exchange of those?

Well i would assume no you wont.
Since it the skill challenges and skillpoints from 1-80 that get converted to hero points not skill point scrolls

The skill points you spent on unlocking all your utility/elite skills are spent and its the same anmunt that you will have to spend again your not loseing anything.

You can argue you will lose gold only if you can untrain utility/elite skills and buy materials for them now mate.

and the 25 stack/25% cap address that perfectly aswell without putting in diminishing returns just becouse some people want to stack vuln to 100+

Edit
Game is balanced around the 25% max already why should they up it just becouse you want to? maybe they should do the same to might aswell we want people to have 100 might and snease on you and you die.

Stars.2179:

This is confusing because – Aryilana and Guhracie say: “Yes they will be shards” but Donari says “Yes they will count towards shards if they are extra past your first time to level 80 + your 187 skill challenges. If they came from leveling and challenges and you just never spent them, then I think they won’t count.” Among your answers are disagreement! – That is why it is confusing!

How does it know if that 20 skill points are “extra past your first time to level 80 + your 187 skill challenges.”

A second scenario: I have a level 10 character that has 400 skill points by skill scrolls only (no tomes). Now I take that character and go around and grab 20 skill points from skill challenges and then buy an angur stone from Metani. It now still has 400 skill points. Will that character get back 400 skill shards? Or does it get 380 skill shards? I used 20 hero points for the angur stone, not my 400 skill points!

It dont have to know it, it will take the total nr of skillpoints from what you have.

The ones gained from leveling 1-80 and the 187 skill challenges will be remade into hero points to unlock utility and elite skills with again.

The extra you got from leveling you say its 20 we dont know if it is since you may not have unlocked all the ultility elite skills on that alt already.
Those will be turned into 20 spirit shards

necro need it no idea how they would fix it tho

start saving 20$ a month now and you should have it on release

Yes you have to rebuy all skills with the new hero point currency.

They havent said anything about compensating people who spent gold to unlock skills, so expect nothing and if you get something thats a bonus ( unsure they have even tracked who unlocked with events and who spent gold to unlock skills to be honest )

Dont think there is one why should there be?

ignore message and finish the event reason why you get pop up is the other server/servers have finished the event and your map shard was a extra instance created becouse the other were full…. so the game want to funnel you back to the normal map and close the extra ones.

Yea better start deleting dont sell them or anything by all means

what he wants are basicly heirlooms from wow weapons that level with you that you dont have to replace.

I dont see the need for it but if anet can make some cash from it go for it.

he/she is probabely running around in one of the 4 starting areas were this arrow over heal skill pops up.
A solution to this is get the hell out of the starting areas man there is a bunch other maps to be in.

But to be fair it should sence your down leveled and turn off those tooltips

Only event I know of that people want you to fail is lyssa defend event since the attack event give better loot.
Dont blame the players blame the developers that scewed the drops on the two events should just remake defend one to have same chance for said loot.

and whats stoping you from taking those other accounts join the guild you want to upgrade and buy the influence without transfering money?

Nah you wont see your character when viewing a vista

the flying shots you seen is either
A expansion shots were you can glide or
B people viewing a vista

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Foefaller.1082:

MattyP.6954:

Foefaller.1082:

I get that, I’m just saying the way they worded it sounds like there are no choices within each legend itself. I think most of us here were hoping for there to at least be a set of utilities within each legend to chose from, but it looks like every Revenant channeling Ventari will have the same exact 6-0 skills as every other Ventari-channeling Revenant with the only possible difference being the order they are in the skillbar.

Yeah, the customization would come mainly from weapons, stats, traits, and what stance they choose to pair with Ventari. A Glint/Ventari Revenant would play differently than a Jarlis/Ventari Revenant would play differently than any of the other legends.

…but a Jalis/Ventari Revenant with a Hammer will have the same skills as every other Jalis/Ventari Revenant with a Hammer, with no additional options within each legend.

I’m not talking about a meta build either. If I pick those two as my Revenants legends, I have no other way to customise the skills I use beyond their order in my skillbar, no other options within those legends, and no way, beyond traits and a single weapon set, to differentiate my playstyle from other Revenants who picked those legends. Are you okay with that?

Well yes… and a Scepter/Staff condition necro will have the same weapon and skills as every other Scepter/Staff condition necro. How is that different from any other class that has a spec and two weapon sets determined? I suppose “in theory” you have more utility choices to choose from, but there are only 5-6 utilities that are actually used for each class.

Yes but those two necros can have totaly dif utilitys…. so then the reveneants should have X skills on each weapon type ( 5 10 15) to mix and match their weapon bar like other classes can mix their utility bar then or what?

You can always buy a new account next 10 buck sale and think more carefully when you pick a display name

dident see it when i looted karka chest two days ago had to mail crap and reloot the chest to get my last items

well gta5 60g, gw2 20 steam games 75g it adds up

They already started the last beta test so yes they started, sorry if you dident get one.
Sadly neither have I

Want it for free, you got two legs use them to run from closest city

So this one 3 post below wasent enough?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Unlock-all-Waypoints/page/3#post5086530

If bosses in dungeons still droped 15s each you would have a case but cosidering mobs drop less then 1 silver max the gold % dont do much at all
Edit
And its not like you get it from every mob either.

First try to get access to account and do a ticket to support and get it closed.
Second do a clean install on whole computer
Third get access to account again from arena net by proving its yours then continue to change email and password.

tyu.9470:

Cyninja.2954:

Behellagh.1468:

Chris Clearly’s post on the subject.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Gold-Transfer-Changes/4933116

0.175% of accounts would be affected at least one time per month.
98.228% of those accounts were RMT related.
Which means after the math, roughly 1 in 32,000 accounts impacted who weren’t involved in RMT. Across say 4 million accounts, that’s roughly 125 players caught by it.

Numbers one can live with.

Do I feel bad for the few caught in the crossfire? Sure.

Does it make all the complaints from RMT accounts faking to be legit accounts (and there have been a few called out, which is even funnier since I’d try to stay hush hush if I was already affected by anti RMT actions) that more sweet? Yes it does.

I agree on this. I am asking for restrictions to not effect eachother in this way (aka mail limit.. cannot get gold in mail) or a way to prove that i have no life and not RMTing to somehow reset my limit once i hit it or any other ideas / easy to implement things from ANET.

Yes and that ability to remove limit can be used by anyone making the limit lose effectiveness

Getting all the donations untill you are about to log out saturday then keeping 500 in shared guild bank and withdraw as much gold as possible before reset seem to solve all your problems.
If you buy gems i guess you do it for main account, check what you can gift to main from second do gold to gem transfer and buy less gems drains as much gold as possible from the second account.

And since you play 6 days a week find what day gold weekly reset is and transfer as much as you can in guild bank after taking all the donation mails.

Gift it from the second account?

So if you get only 10g from donations and stop sending money from your second account this is not a problem.

nope have to have it yourself

BandAid.9720:

$50 bucks is a reasonable price considering all the extra in game content we get.

And that have been what this last 1/3 of a year?

Spartacus.9743:

Ralanost.8913:

Bristingr.5034:

Jeezus. $50 USD!? Is this a stand-alone game or an expansion??? I was expecting $30, 40 tops…

Arenanet hasn’t announced a price yet. The price listed on Amazon and other retailers is a guess and not official. Come on people.

That’s right, but Anet answered just something about the date release, nothing about price…
So we just have to buy Heart of Thorns at that price, sadly

If anet havent released any info on date or price both would be placeholders estimated guesses and high ones to.
since if they said 15 bucks and it cost 20 people would blow a fuse.

Knighthonor.4061:

Linken.6345:

lucius.7804:

Linken.6345:

ProtoGunner.4953:

The permanent items in my characters inventory is really annoying. I have items, I never use, yet it is still something in may keep for the future – like https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pile_of_Phantasmal_Residue

It’s cluttered with stuff like this. And I don’t get why they introduce new currencies like the geodes and bandit badges but don’t implement it into the currency tab.

Use your bank thats what its there for

I bought a bank slot… it was filled within 30 minutes, it hardly solves the problem

Buy another one i guess your not maxed out

I am maxed out on bank and bags.
i have different armor and weapon sets. Tonics, toys, currencies, environmental weapons, non deposit crafting materials.

Well maybe best to give a screenshot so i can help you sort out what can be sold or put in a personal guld bank or a mule mate

Well they did say reveal would be limited to 3 so why are you complaining again?

lucius.7804:

Linken.6345:

ProtoGunner.4953:

The permanent items in my characters inventory is really annoying. I have items, I never use, yet it is still something in may keep for the future – like https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pile_of_Phantasmal_Residue

It’s cluttered with stuff like this. And I don’t get why they introduce new currencies like the geodes and bandit badges but don’t implement it into the currency tab.

Use your bank thats what its there for

I bought a bank slot… it was filled within 30 minutes, it hardly solves the problem

Buy another one i guess your not maxed out

Ralanost.8913:

Bristingr.5034:

Jeezus. $50 USD!? Is this a stand-alone game or an expansion??? I was expecting $30, 40 tops…

Arenanet hasn’t announced a price yet. The price listed on Amazon and other retailers is a guess and not official. Come on people.

Kinda funny that the post above pointed this out aswell and is a anet employe

ProtoGunner.4953:

The permanent items in my characters inventory is really annoying. I have items, I never use, yet it is still something in may keep for the future – like https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pile_of_Phantasmal_Residue

It’s cluttered with stuff like this. And I don’t get why they introduce new currencies like the geodes and bandit badges but don’t implement it into the currency tab.

Use your bank thats what its there for

30-40 hours for 1 level man you must smell the roses untill you pass out bud

Celtic Lady.3729:

Ranger pets still don’t keep all their names, afaik, unfortunately. I’ve never understood this.

They do if you have them equiped max 4 since they count land and underwater pets

Daddicus.6128:

So, the bottom line is that unless there is a close waypoint, or there are other circumstances, it’s always better to rez your comrades.

“Close” = time taken to walk back is less than it takes to rez someone.

This principle was illustrated in a huge way in a recent VW. At south, everybody was rezzing away. We succeeded by over a minute.

The other two teams were both constantly telling people to waypoint out, and they both failed.

South succeeded, again, with everybody rezzing away throughout the battle. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a 3rd chance.

Yea good mesure there maybe you were 80 people the other lanes were 20/20 so you dident have problem with rezing and dpsing

Edit
Always alot more people in bottom vs middle and top lanes.