Guild Wars 2

Whispers Medium
Krytan Armour (gemstore)

both of these sets i find look amazing for medium.

i doubt it

because of the downscaling system it makes more sense to put events in lower level areas as opposed to endgame areas.

that and im sure many events will probably take place in LA.

Ranger with a pet bear is mind-numbing’ly boring but incredibly effective.
same can also be said for Greatsword Warrior.

Guardian has yet to feel boring for me even with using the GS most of the time, perhaps it’s just the pretty visuals.

all 3 of the these proffesions are great for levelling up easily however i’d go with Guardian/Warrior if you plan on doing some endgame pve stuff.

GW2’s cash shop is the best i’ve ever seen/experienced.

feel free to show me a better model than a store that lets you get all of the items from it from playing the game at a reasonable rate.

i’ve already converted around 8000 gems from gold since launch, not spent a single dime.

granted gems are expensive now because of Halloween, but if you didnt see that coming you should learn to plan ahead.

the bug is easy to replicate once you understand how it works.

to bring her back from invisibility you must gather 5 sparks around the statue, however she will also come back from invisibility once she reaches around 100% of her health depending on if your attacking her at the time.

the trick is to pull only 4 sparks to the statue whilst you let her yes, let her heal to 100%, then when she hides again at 50% you only have to bring 1 spark to the statue to cause her to reappear in this time you have to bruteforce her down before she hides again.

the more warriors you bring the better, the damage from a warrior’s greatsword is far FAR greater than any other proffesion’s damage in the game.

soo is it as we all expected and just Sunrise by day and Twilight by night?

i gotta say it seems mostly pointless when you could just craft Sunrise & Twilight and give them to 1 character and switch between whenever you feel like it.

though i understand that you had 1 of the legendaries on your Asura and moved Eternity to your norn.

this is well known for some time.

my guess is
Jormag is most likely the next one.
Primordus is probably after Jormag.
Kralkattorik will be saved for last, because of the whole Revenge thing for Destiny’s Edge.

that leaves us with “Bubbles” the underwater dragon but you must know that the vast majority of npc’s dont know about or even care about the underwater dragon so the fate of this one is widely speculated.

and then we have the rather spoiler alert, possible 6th dragon, i wont go into too many details but if you pay attention to the Infinity Coil & Crucible of Eternity you will of learnt about it, it’s name is something alone the lines of Mordramoth.

if your wondering how i got the name, Subject Alpha in CoE has multiple attacks that are all named after an Elder Dragon his Earth attack is the one to look out for, tho i may have the spellin wrong but you can easily check if you fight him and parse through your combat log.

Blind is fine it’s the offensive version of Aegis, works the exact same way.

it can block a completely useless attack or an incredibly strong one.

99% no, the same way GW1 worked.

and you’d find alot of kitten people if they did making all the exotics and indeed legendaries useless come the expansion.

i pray for the day when an MMO gives me the ability to be left handed.

bots are banned in waves, it’s common practice.

sadly it’s too little too late as it’s ruined what economy we already had.

just look at the price for T6 mats for example, Potent Blood used to be 30s each.

use a melee weapon, constantly circle the burrows and you will have zero issues hitting them.

it might take you awhile to get used to it but believe me it works like a treat and my parties destroy every burrow at 91% without any real trouble.

it’s because artificial difficulty is much easier to design than real difficulty.

slap 5 million hp on it, give it maybe 2-4 attacks and call it a “boss”.

a good example is the first boss in HotW exp Zealot path, all you do is kite, thats it, thats the whole fight, you kite for about 8 minutes running up and down the stairs.

this is no different than mining Orichalcum on all your characters everyday.

perfectly fine

Karma isnt a reward unless it’s a massive chunk, in which case people would just abuse it.

i would rather farm Orr & get level 80 loot in the process of my karma farming.

nobody asked how Magic find works?
would of liked to hear an offical reply on it from the people who programmed it.

it bugs out on occassion it’s happened to me and my group the first time we did it.

thankfully however we were determined to see it through and found a way through the door with some handy teleport spells and only 1 person needed to reach the otherside for the achievement to work.

yay for Thief Shortbow.

2nd time we did it the door opened fine, it may be due to wiping on the last boss as the second time we did it we had nobody die.

the items were added for a very brief period of time but since taken out, they will no doubt come with the Halloween update.

the total makeover iirc cost 350 gems at the time.

22
over 700 hours in game
i would of stopped at around 400, atm i pretty much only play for the people in my guild and to grind out a legendary.

Endgame atm is meh.. hopefully Halloween will be a nice change of pace.

still one of the best purchases i’ve ever made though.

Blizzard have a rather infamous program called Warden that is well known to essentially spy on your pc muchlike any Spyware does, this helps them track down people who are running malicious software but at the same time invades the privacy or legitamate players.

it’s a fine line you have to walk.

you need to deal a certain % of dmg to the enemy’s HP pool.

find your item here
http://www.gw2spidy.com/searchform

enter the item number here
http://streamchan.com/gw2id.html

copy and paste the new code into chat, huzzah u can preview from the TP.

example
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/20356
Abyss Dye code is 20356
which gives you the code [&AgGETwAA] when you type this into GW2 chat you can right click it and preview it.

all chest loot is terrible in this game

theres like a 0.5% chance of good loot and the rest is vendor trash.

hopefully the devs will eventually add in Zaishen-type quests from GW1 that would be an incentive to run dungeons you otherwise wouldnt run.

Gem prices are high atm because of Halloween approaching

either people are stocking up on gems for the new items being added to the shop on the Halloween patch or people are simply playing the market and have stocked up gems when they were cheap and are going to convert it back to gold for profit.

i’ve got 3100 gems saved up just for this.

bring Guardians, cant go wrong with more Guardians.

Bring her down to 50% until she heals
LET her heal back to 100%, in the meantime round up 4 sparks NOT 5 and bring them to the statue.
when she returns bring her back down to 50%, when she hides this time have 4 people stay on her despite her invisibility and have 1 person bring 1 spark to the statue, this will bring her back.

burn her before she hides again, the more warriors you bring the better as their damage is far greater than any other proffesion.

it’s a bug that’ll no doubt eventually be fixed but doing this fight the complete legimate way of rounding up all 5 sparks everytime is the most stressful thing in the game by far, they switch aggro constantly, they’re ranged rather than melee, general pathing issues etc.

but this Armour isnt hard to farm at all, you can get 25k karma within 1hour quite easily
it’s an alternative to spending money on Crafted Armour or running dungeons.

this was found awhile ago sadly the video was made private.

this is already being added to the game albeit it doesnt concern the Precursor items.

see this post
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/4-hours-of-Arah-EM-and-no-shards/first#post392172

for this upcoming change, can we make certain about if Magic Find will affect these drops and will they be tradable?

im sure alot of people are going to have issues with people in their parties coming in full of MF gear and completely dragging down the group because of it.

on the flip side, if it does work, this could add in a possible challenge for those good enough to do the encounter whilst in magic find gear.

Atm MF causes alot of issues because there is no inspect function to know what someone is wearing or how they are built trait wise.

Albeit this has little bearing on organised groups, i fear alot of PuG groups may suffer.

Lupus always hunts the person with the highest Toughness.

the forge is designed to be a gold sink and as such atm is working as intended.

The Precursor items however are another matter that Arenanet are currently looking into, atm the vast majority if not all of the Precursors on the Trading Post are up there via exploits that have since been fixed and the prices are far too high for any legitamate player to reach short of emptying your wallet given the current economy of the game.

i really dont understand why Arenanet just didnt create a set recipe for each Precursor, perhaps involving a Bloodstone.

Hundred Blades is terrible in PvP, if you got hit by it quite frankly you deserve to die.
it doesnt stun you and it roots the warrior in place whilst he channels it.

PvE however is another matter entirely, Hundred blades and Warrior Greatsword is far too strong.
see this video as evidence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3XgQhiYhkdY

Do AC explorable

Champion Stalkers drop 5s each (theres 1 you can kill on every path, 2 on the Ghosteater path)
the last bosses drop ~15s
both of these drops can be enhanced with the Omnomberry Bar food bringing it up to 7s and 21s respectively, thats ontop of the 24s reward at the end, which means you’ve made half a gold from these 3 things alone per route, plus all the random loot you get.

other than that get some MF gear and farm Orr.

the important thing to remember here is, if your going after a legendary you wont be making any money because you have to stockpile your materials for the legendary, you have to understand that because of this making money is very difficult for you, otherwise it’s incredibly easy.

the issue is that theres no other ways of making money beyond selling the stuff you need for the legendary.

just remember that as long as your on the road to a legendary, you will essentially always be poor, once you either give up or get it, you’ll find the money just flowing into your pockets because you no longer need the materials.

most if not all of the legendaries that have been crafted so far have been a group/guild effort by pooling resources, getting it by yourself is a long road or an empty wallet.

there is currently a bug with the petrification, if you have Stability applied to you before the Petrification takes effect you will still be in complete control of your character and can remove the debuff yourself, however as Simin spends most of her time on 1 party member, she will quickly re-apply her gaze onto you and you’ll be stone once more as most likely Stability has wore off.

the Waypoint for the Jotun Route can bug out and not appear for a very long time, when i last did it it didnt appear until we reached the last boss, the tar enemies keep spawning despite the boss being dead.

Ankas.9023:

Where do some of these people with legendarys already farm so much karma at? Do they sleep or eat? Same goese with gold. I play maybe 5-6 hours a day farming getting good drops salveging ectos and what not and am not even 1/3 of getting everything finished.

i farmed 50k karma in Cursed Shore in about 2 hours tops, with just 1 karma booster for the first hour.

the 15% guild Bonus also helps out alot so you should keep that up 100% of the time.
and then you can have a guild banner for another 5%

it’s really not that hard to farm karma once you put some effort into it and get the bonus’, karma booster in particular is very cheap.

just popping in to say i love the fix for the Ghastly Weapons and hope to see them all working as well as those that do work.

Magic Find is fine
my problem is the economy is based around the TP completely as a result, drop rates are incredibly low and your forced into coughing up gold to buy it from a global market.

compare this to other games where the Auction house system is unique per server, drop rates are raised to be much higher and farming was tolerable, here farming things like Lodestones is nothing but a nightmare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3XgQhiYhkdY

here’s a good example of the damage output a warrior has.

Yes timewarp was up, but feel free to get this kind of damage with another proffesion.

i’ve done this path fine all week without issue.

http://www.guildhead.com/items/catg/1/subcatg/5/sort/-reqlevel,name

the best one is a Masterwork one from Orr, there are no Rare/Exotic tier Aquatic Helms atm other than the SPvP version.

it’s something Arenanet have overlooked.

-more ways to make money

to name 3:
Vanquishing
Hard Mode
Zaishen Quests

all of these are possible, as we seen in BWE3 ending the “hunger games” Arenanet created an instanced version of Metrica Province seperate from the real zone which opens up the possibility of Hardmode for every zone & Vanquishing it for even more rewards.

this Halloween im sure we’ll expect to see more instanced versions of other zones aswell.

Zaishen is pretty easy, slap a Black Lion tag on there and your good to go for being lore-friendly as the Zaishen’s location atm is unknown.

could even open up new rewards related to these quests aswell, not to mention a good way to persuade people to do story-mode dungeons for the quest as atm Story-mode is really hard to get groups for.

this is actually one of the best boss fights ingame, up there with Subject Alpha

although i hear he is currently bugged in the latest build and resets randomly, which is a bug and a big one at that.

other than that the Boss is fine as anyone with any experience can tell you in phase 2 and 3 he chases the person with the highest toughness around constantly, which is good because he’s the guy taking the majority of the damage.

you only make it harder fighting him at the waypoint because your FoV is decreased and there is less room to move.

i’ve done this several times without any kind of VOIP software, but i run with my guild and just tell them what to do and get it done quickly.

i prefer it this way, the Explorables were originally designed to be only for hardcore groups, sadly just about every other dungeon route is easy mode.

some serious lack of real challenge in this game atm beyond fighting against bugs that give you trouble.

i would rather have more of those “skill” challenges which are by far the most fun parts of any dungeon, it’s hilarious to go into CoE explorable the first time and watch as you and your party fail to cross the lasers.

it’s exciting to figure out how to use the Golem and the charge guns in the Arah Mursaat path, the nightmare minefield with net turrets to root you and possibly bugged mines that actually respawn, which only add’s to the hilarity.
there’s also the “pass the light orb before you die”.

CoF has the molten rocks of death whilst carrying a flame to the other side and the path filled with explosions that you not only must ascend, but also avoid the turrets that will attempt to kill you as you reach the top.

When designed well these parts of the dungeon are far more enjoyable than trash mobs will ever be, only thing i could ask for is to remove any armour-breaks from these little “mini-games” because everybody just gets naked to avoid the repair-bills anyhow, though this does again add to the hilarity.

Trash mobs just arent interesting and with their massive HP pools and insane auto-attack damage it’s very obvious that they are designed to add artificial difficulty to the dungeon which slows down the amount of fun im having.

my Guardian/Main.

Legendaries are fine as they are, although some need visual improvements to bring up the par with Twilight & Sunrise.

albeit we havent seen all the legendaries yet, so far i’ve only seen
Twilight, Sunrise, Juggernaught, Bifrost.

Bifrost in particular looks really bad compared to the rest thus far, Twilight & Sunrise both having spectacular particle effects and Juggernaught causes your armour to gain a silvery-metal look.

If the legendaries had a stat-bonus higher than exotics you can expect a massive outrage from the playerbase.

sometimes i wonder why people buy really expensive cars that go over 200mph but here in the UK the maximum speed your allowed to go on a motorway is 80mph, so it’s clear to me they get the car for the “skin” because it “looks good”.