I only have those issues doing teq / Karka / massive Zerg fights wvw. It only happens occasionally – and never when my graphics are turned down. How turning down graphics resolves a sound bug I don’t know, but it works for me. When not doing those three, I turn graphics back to high.
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the personal story required a dungeon. Boring if I wanted to do Fractals or Dungeons I would just do them. I do not like Dungeons or Fractals and I am not going to bother.
If your dungeon experience started and ended with Arah story, I completely understand why you don’t like them.
But yeah, this is about how us dungeon folk feel about having to participate in World Boss circle zergs and WvW for dragonite…..which is a much bigger pain in the kitten than AFKing a few level one fractals for a new skin.
Difference is exploration / bosses can be done solo. You are not dependent on 4 others who may rage quit costing you the thing most valuable – your time.
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Where in the LS do yo have to do Fractals to finish it? The parts and pieces for the backpiece are rewards for the LS. You can complete the LS and build the exotic backpiece without ever stepping foot in the Fractals. The Fractal relics are only for creating the ascended version of the backpiece. If you arent doing fractals you dont need ascended items. The stat gain for the ascended vs. exotic back piece is almost nothing.
The dust eating monster is what the people really want not the associated back piece (well many of the people).
I did the 5, but did not enjoy it at all – 2 rage quit groups and 1 bugged hammer = several hours of wasted time. At least with dungeons you have some reward after 1 path…. Probably not a coincidence I played other games when I finished each fractal run….
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Held my nose while doing my 5 – hope to never go back. To get those 5 – had 3 good groups -2 rage quit groups – 1 hammer bug (on the third of 3 fractals of course. It was not fun at all… It even chased me off to another game for a few days before I decided to slog through it..
I would have liked to have had alternatives as well….
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Didn’t car for the divinity reach part, but was pleasantly surprised with the rest…..
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what bug would that be ?
and that post is ridiculous to say the least
The hammer bug where you can’t recover it and you have to restart.
Have everyone die, don’t release until everyone is dead, then release. Hammer will respawn in the last waypoint. This has been fixed a long time ago. Just because you don’t know the machanics don’t mean that it is bugged.
Yet another Learn2Play issue. If anyone complain about the fractal level requirement the community as a whole should just respond that instead of complaining you should learn how to get better at the game.
This community really makes me wonder. RNG items are A-OK. Skill based items = bad. Boggles the mind.
And it was des pawning before we could grab it today – if it is that buggy it is not L2P it Is L2Fix on anet’s part……
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what bug would that be ?
and that post is ridiculous to say the least
The hammer bug where you can’t recover it and you have to restart.
Happened in my group today …. And it was the 3rd fractal…. I did the 5 for the mist stone, but including fractals (really any forced group content) was a poor choice. I got a bugged one forcing re-start and 2 rage quit groups in completing 5 fractals… In several of the runs you could tell the people didn’t really want to be there except for the stone…
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Want to spread peeps out, let aoe affect more than 5 peeps…….
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Didn’t like the idea of including fractals – for the infused version of course makes sense. Anyway, did 2 of 5 today, (before and after reset). I had the definite feeling 4/5 people in each group didn’t really want to be there and won’t go back after they have the 5 relics. There are too many choices for people these days to tick off your player base. Having alternate paths to please the most people would have been a better design IMHO…..
On the bright side – group 1 was pleasant enough and included 1 vet with the patience of a saint. Still not happy, but if will slog through 3 more….
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Or
Mist stone is mined from stone mist castle in ebg……
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Read the text and listen to the convo – willing to bet not bugged/stuck…..
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I was thinking nerf of foxfire at melandru statue in mal leap, but still getting decent returns… Maybe new bot detection after the bans of legit lumberjacks?
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Wanted ghastly shield…… Should have gotten it when I could……
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Energizer – tp
Storm -tp
Storm – drop from easy JP ne LA (sold it)
Dusk – tp
Colossus – tp
Zap – tp
Venom – tower lord wvw (sold it)
Chaos gun – MF (sold it)
Dawn -tp
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clusters keep on dropping and they lose value everyday so just sell it
you can farm them so fast again anyway
or probablysoon buy 50 clusters of the tp for the price for which you sold one now
This would be true only if Anet never releases another use for them. The only use for them now is to build/grow the new backpack. Once people are done with that, there’s nothing to do with them other than to sell them to someone who is still doing the backpack or hording them.
If they do add another use for them though, especially a repeated use like some type of crafting, you can fully expect them to rise in price again. And if they are used in the next stage of the backpack in the upcoming LS, you can expect a huge spike in prices on the first couple of days.
That’s why I hedged my bets. I have the back piece + quite a few foxfire, while selling a lot of foxfire. I won’t maximize my return this way, but won’t take it in shorts if they rise or fall in price either……
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Open world was horrid.
Bugged and was a PITA first day.
First iron marches quest doesn’t matter if you fail.
Second iron marches quest has an npc to skip over.
Third and fourth were ok, but none of that really advanced a story.
Frost gorge is even sillier, at least 1/2 the time I zoned into a completed quest and simply touched a totem……..
On the other hand, I enjoyed the instances….
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It was the quartz. Thanks.
See kitten.
See kitten mess everything up with an improperly coded if or switch statement.
Code kitten, Code…kitten!
Edit: Really? Short for Richard? Books we read as kids? Oh well, kitten works too. 
:|
As a software developer, just guessed that might be the case as I converted all my 11 without issue….
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Go back without quartz in your inventory? The quartz may supersede the residue …
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…. Their updates tend to be of a relatively good quality, a good quality that wouldn’t be available if they didn’t have the money.
Living story season 2 episode 3 was the most rushed buggiest piece released yet….. Not sure about the quality or plenty of resources comment..
That said, only thing I could see with minor sub is gem store discounts…..
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I would so buy a finisher that worked like the DHUUM ban in gw 1……..
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Or play what you want and have fun…. Unless getting into a wvw guild that gvgs, most will be happy to have another ally no matter what class they choose to play.
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Think of it as a small group being a PITA to the other side wreaking havoc to their plans.
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There is also the added poi for the a ether JP just north of la. The new poi in la where Scarlett’s drill was.
As said before hover over each zone to find which zone is the issue first.
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I’m doing the story multiple times on my alts. I like it, btw, Anet. tnx.
Is there any point to making the back piece more than once, though?
It’s only an exotic piece, and it’s a lot of hassle and cost to make. Once I unlock the skin, I don’t see any point in making a second one.
Has there been any official word whether it might be used for something else, maybe? If that was the case, I could see, maybe, making more than one. Maybe. It’s a lot of work for an exotic, especially if you don’t have all the crafts.
I ran 11 toons through, but not buying anything for piece 1 or 2. If it ends up ascended, I could see making stat combos I do not have presently. I already have wings of dwayna and chaos of lyss – may not use the skin at all…..
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Who says we won’t be forced back here for an additional set of recipes in EP 4. I am saving geodes myself in case this happens…..
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Or
Talk to the npcs and skip the step if you don’t care about every ap.
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You obviously have somewhat different ideas about “cheap” and “frequent” than I do. At prices of more than a gold each and reported drop rates varying between 1/50 and 1/35, I find Firefox Clusters neither cheap to buy nor easy to harvest. Since my hole wealth amounts to about 160 Gold, spending 48 for a new backpiece somehow doesn’t appeal. Neither does farming between 1700 and 2400 wood nodes, especially since I rather dislike Orr and tend to avoid the place whenever possible, thus limiting the number of places I could grind for wood, were I inclined to do so.
Foxfire clusters are the only thing that really take up money. There is a spot in Malchor’s Leap (which is well known) where you can harvest 6 (7?) T5-Trees at one spot with every character you have. Best thing is, you don’t even encounter many enemies on your way.
You don’t need to get the backpack ASAP as the content is permanent. I don’t see where the problem is. It takes two or three minutes per character each day to farm those 6 or 7 nodes, you’re in no hurry to do it so you’re off fine.
From how it sounds like you rather want it to be thrown at you, huh?
Or wait – they cost so much because some want day the back piece day 7. If these don’t drop below 25 silver or less over time I would be very surprised.
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Reran the episode, skipped to foe fire challenge, talked to rox and did receive the residue. Thank you for the solution.
My story journal looks odd now as I quit the episode replay – I guess I will see if that’s an issue ep4 or if I have to do the chain again…..
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While the first day in iron marches was total crap with things not working, now the first 2 stages are pointless. Flame the guy a bit, wait for fail, and move on. Go to next stage speak to 2 npcs and move on again…….
Fgs isn’t much better based on timing. Ran a character through the chain in moderate sized group – was sort of fun. Loaded another character – all events done so just destroyed the totem…… That in itself shows instance would have been better.
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I finally got one single fossil, and used it to create the Torch.
Very glad I did, one of the most unique torches in the game. The light comes out of the firefly inside the fossil, and it actually blinks on and off just like a firefly’s light would. Doesn’t do much for the practicality of the weapon (what good is a light that’s only on half the time?) but it does look neat pulsing on and off, so practicality be danged.
It is also huge. I wish it was a bit brighter, but glad I made it.
I also made staff, axe, short bow, war horn, and shield. I have 1 fossil left – thinking dagger maybe….
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I am average at best, mez and ranger had no problem once I understood the mechanics. I do wonder on some of my other classes that don’t have great ranged damage…. Still might be ok, but I will need to do it differently.
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Account bound doesn’t mean 1 per account…. I will look at the item that I did get and re-read the information, but it is silly to give you everything else multiple times…
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And the second character did not receive the phantasmal residue. Anyone else have the issue?
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Because people were crying about everything story-related being instanced in the past two episodes.
I think the majority liked that development in LS2.- especially if it is permanent content…..
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Stuck at samples until I relogged ( that’s not a real fix), now ferris stuck. A wise sage named Bart once said ‘what a load of crappity crap crap’.
If this is perm content, I wonder how often the events spawn and how it scales 2 months from now? I thought that was why they went instances in LS 2 EP 1-2…….
Episodes 1 and 2 were pretty good, please go back to instances….
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Well in that case anet should make Lions Arch a home instance for all the servers, I thought it would be like that before reading the megaserver patch notes, I mean, come on. A server people needs a base.
Agreed, but wonder if the concern is it looks empty…..doesn’t help having the banks/crafts in 3 places instead of one….
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I wouldn’t mind seeing SFR pitted against the most stacked of NA and China.
FTFY. There is no “best” in numbers game…
Eu – NA not possible now, but possibly could be. Forget china – they have different governmental controls.
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Well another week. Thats 5 weeks in a row.
Lets make it 50 weeks. Anet rulez
Why not 52 so you can say 1year……
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Jq complaining after season 2?
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If you get in a match where your side holds most of everything, run ALL your characters through even if you do not know if you will bother to do map completion on all of them.
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The map would be full for the first 2-3 weeks until people finally start to realize what open world pvp actually means. Then it would be a steady decline in population until the server becomes a ghost town.
It might work if the pve world had a shadow pvp world, but the pvp map was limited to 1 or 2 zones. Then the next day (or week) anew set of maps are opened, and the previous are closed. Even with a pvp megaserver, I agree not enough people to cover all the maps at the same time……
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I like how these weapons are attained personally. Do the content if you want the weapon. The crafting mats are not outlandish and I have had 2 of the ambers drop already. Based on map chat they don’t seem to be uber rare at all.
One thing they could maybe have done is added the amber to the geode vendor. 0 rng that way….
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From my understanding, peoples gripe with the ambrite weapons are the fossiles
I personally love ascended aquisition in this game;
It requires you to play all aspects for the vision crystal and do some crafting.
Metal/wood/cloth are aquired through salvaging drops or bought with gold you make along the way.
No problem with working for something, the RNG is just a no-go
The fossils are not that uber rare – I have had 2 and this is only day 2. Others were linking the drop semi frequently as well.
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Got in a t4 instance and bought the axe recipe. Sandstorm hit and got an amber like 5 mins later. I opened 15-20 I think ( spent more time running alts through story line ). I saw others link the drop as well – I wonder if the drop rate is affected by tier attained?
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The answer is simple. Nerf the rewards to match wvw or set some sort of diminishing return that nerfs the rewards for and endless circle….
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mag is an obvious choice. mag is never gonna leave t2. but mag doesn’t need that many more guilds, many an eu though.
fa and sos are decent choices too
but you really do not want to got anywhere but t2, t2 is where all the guilds we be again in two to three weeks time
If all the guilds go there, won’t be t2 – new t1…….
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Why exactly do they add the weapon to wardrobe and not include it in-game at the same time? The pessimist in me says they’re showcasing the item to generate demand before releasing in gem shop, but I’m not sure. Can we get some info from staff on this item? How long do I have to preview the weapon without being able to acquire it? Next release, perhaps?
Wardrobe slot for future item = program patch. New gemstore items have not required a game patch (because they are already there). So my bet bet is gemstore before the next game patch for LS 2 EP 2.
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On the flip side, repeating the instances on another character gives you the loot…. I suppose it is like the personal story – same stuff repeatable on mult toons.
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