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White items: salvage or?

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Nope. Salvage them or sell to merch. Salvage would be a better choice for mats. Up to you, i sell all white blue and green to merch.

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Overflow, overflow, overflow...

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All they need to do to fix it and leave the intent behind guesting in place is make guesting require an invite from a server resident every time. No more overflows, and the people who want to play with their friends on other servers still can and the treasure hunters will have to stay on their own servers where they belong.

One of the best idea i read on this forum so far. I wish someone at Anet was listening..

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How about an update RE scavenger hunt please?

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Entitled? Nah, gamble it, you’ll have one. Than , grind waits you. Is it entitlement?
A player worthy of an item and an epic path for a legendary weapon wasn’t on their project at all, i don’t see why we would see anything like this for years and years.
I wonder how many kicks on his back received that poor Anet employee from when he wrote that kitten post “scavenger hunt will come, for your legendary, i’m working on it”, lol. Is he still working at least?
Don’t buy PR posts attempting to shush the community about this unfamous scavenger hunt. They already tried to tell you it’s on preliminary stage (maybe on paper, somewhere), far miles from the development. Persistance will not lead anywhere.

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newbies; when you join a dungeon team..

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Ye, they was a group of players not even barely interested on the 5th player’s skills or if he would not understand or behave as expected, just because newbie. “Let him die, lolz” or “Let’s run as usual, he will figure out how to do a boost run looking us, rezzing on waypoint. HE will find a guide or a youtube video sooner or later doing this run, he will learn” attitude.
Usually is the first : " for the lulz"

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Changing The World... Really?

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Hehe Absolutely yes, we are allowed to give suggestions to Anet. I did dozen times.
Expecially on the link i gave you, i gave an epic content’s suggestion.
This forum should be meant for this purpose. Mind to link me an example of a content strategically analyzed by a single user with an entire suggestion and explanation of how it should be managed, who went online (with credits to him too)? As you see, it confirms the lack of communication with Anet, the point i focus. Not surely poke you or criticize your suggestion. Who clearly, tactically, i perfectly agree.
Or maybe, a paid hired designer (human nature) thinks to be far superior to “a stupid kid posting on a videogame forum” not even opening his mind to something tactically obiouvs as you explained?
Inderectly (but i guess you totally lost that part) i was “bumping” your thread hoping it takes attention by a dev, not being digged in a few minutes by other threads and forgot (considering i’m the only one who even spent his time giving you an answer)
Next time, thinks about it, instead of throw a flame or thinking everyone hates you

Analizing your strategy , i think the designer gave to Tamini this choice for a reason: he, as commander, understood their force was going to be killed. Spread them assaulting, would just makes things faster killing his entire army not even understanding who killed them. Some assaults must be made , with proper “numbers”. Not everyone is a King Leonidas who fight assaulting “for the glory” as much a minority or weaker compared to the enemy. So far, i would have done the same choice of Tamini, or simply retreat, feeling death was incoming. But clearly, a DE where a retreat happens at beginning and the DE ends, is not so fun hehe.
So, analyzing this difference of tactics, you should ask me “Fine. So why if 30 players are doing the DE, the course of the events is the same”? This is a lack of programming skills. The DE should analyze the number of players involved on the battle, THEN strategically choose what’s better (stands, waiting to be killed) or (assuming there are a lot of active players around) begin an assault. Making the DE “fun” and “exciting”.
You ask a dynamical strategical world, don’t expect any on this game (much less with the actual team). Maybe on gw3

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Mystic Forge for precursor

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Well, true. It’s one of the first thing we learn about precursors and mystic forge around the first week, before someone discovered 4 weapons of the same kind are a better choice. If 4 weapons at least gives you a hope to get the same weapon and maybe the precursor version, 4 random object is truly a real spin of a roulette like put money on a random number of a roulette, and that number arrive. Once per life.

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newbies; when you join a dungeon team..

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Seems curious but it’s true. I met plently newbies on my billion pugs who seriously wasn’t reading at all the chat. Or telling me “k explain, we read” and after a detailed explanation, they just play like if noone told them “if you run there, we will be pwned in a sec surrounded of enemies and the run will fail”. Like freesexalice said: mental disability or drunk? I could add: sometimes some player don’t give a kitten of this guy explaining stuff, much less if the explanation is more long than 2 lines. Attitude.
Luckly i can confirm this is a minority. Majority when willing to learn, truly read every line, and when you type “K here is when we stop and wait, go to lure that enemy” they do it. Talented players, this is how i call them. Their future was usually the greatest getting the highest and better reward ingame. Clearly, all of them added on friendlist. Sadly, noone of them is online anymore

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Why wasn't this nerf included in patch notes?

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There’s a couple reasons we tend not to put certain things like exploits into patch notes. I’ll go into them a bit
1. We don’t want to highlight a spot where an exploit existed, since people who would have never found the spot then go and try to find a way around our fix, or can glean something from it that inspires them to try similar things elsewhere.
2. In terms of localization of patch note text into different languages, editing, and writing the patch note up, it costs money and time for multiple people. Dedicating resources to explain we closed a particular exploit just isn’t worth the time/resources for every single one, so we’re okay with cutting it from the notes, especially if we have a lot of patch notes that are much more valuable to disseminate out, like Engineer changes and other such things.

I’m not really attached to calling it a nerf, it’s just the first word that popped into my head. The point is transparency.

1. You could just say “fixed an exploit in HotW path 1” and given no details. Covered.

Well ye. Not so hard or so long to write “fixed an exploit on HotW” without details. Nor so expensive and resourceful adding 1 line more.
But maybe Robert is scared who didn’t knew the exploit would ask around, learn how was executed and use it somewhere else. Same time, most patch (assuming they fixed them) would have 1/10/50 lines of “exploits fixed on dungeon X”. As i said, this is a game where the core is exploit, lol.
I’m serious, i never played an mmo where the focus of the community and 99% of the pugs are focused on them and use the new one when old are fixed.
So annoying.
I don’t get how and why this game allow them, and how when an exploit is fixed, next pug will show you an other exploit, ruining a sane run again.

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legendary gifts

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Ohh. I guess 90% is missing one, looking the medium “rant” and the price, but clearly is my idea, you cannot get a real answer, expecially not just using this forum.

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Why wasn't this nerf included in patch notes?

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Uhm. I still remember a dev posting on the forum the dev team have fun to let the community discover a bug/exploit (that guy skipped the part “..and we will permaban them too” lol) . I doubt they hide the entire list “to not give any new ideas”. In a few minutes someone will post “Hey, the hole is gone” “Fine, let’s find an other kind of exploit”. A game where the core is how to exploit, i never played an mmo like this one, i swear lol

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newbies; when you join a dungeon team..

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That’s a reasonable request. I always mention if I had not done a path before, or if I have only done it once or twice (takes my slow brain repetition to figure things out).

But the experienced people need to read chat as well. Yesterday for instance, I ran fotm-dredge for the first time. I had run the other fractals at least a couple times each, but never this one.

As soon as the instance loaded I typed, ‘never done this fractal before’. When we got to part with the control panel, I was supposed to activate that. But I didn’t, because I had no idea that I was supposed to.

That’s when I got treated to some classic all caps cyber-yelling like DUDE!!1!! and other panicked displays. By the way, I did activate the control panel and we all lived.

What bothers me in pug dungeon runs, as a newbie, is the incivility that I see from a certain segment of players. There is a kind of rage that some people have in-game that I don’t get. Maybe they have run the same content over and over again so many times it’s not fun anymore; or maybe I’m just getting old.

Some of the names I have been called so far in dungeon runs:
-moron
-troll
-idiot
kitten

and probably others I’m forgetting.

If my newness to a dungeon or the game in general is going to kitten someone off that much, I would rather be booted at the beginning of a run than deal with this crap.

If you think even old experienced players like me, even with my armor and my title, sometimes still meet this kind of junk joining a pug attempting to use those words talking about me, try to imagine what kind of players are around you.
Also, great/good players left the game yet (me included, and i was a famous pugger, patient and helpful. My armor and title are completely pugged ) . Don’t expect anything based on the word “for the sake of the fun” “i’m new, willing to learn” etc. Grind as fast as possible , turboruns, or kick this guy. This is the pug, with those players left. Good luck, hehe.
If you investigate a bit, you will discover soon the age of the moron of the day.
Usually under 18 years and with the typical “behind the screen” internet attitude.
Yep, we are old , to deal with those unrespectful children, we don’t expect it.
Luckly, a 18+ mmo is incoming.. yay Hopefully, a more adult respectful behaviour..
I truly pity newbies on this game dealing with this kind of community logging, seriously.

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Crafting a legendary between two characters

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I guess he was scared to have some components locked to a char, some others to an other char, wasting loads of time and resources having half work done splitted, and everything ready except.. he cannot craft his weapon hehe. Follow my suggestion, plan your work

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Game design/philosophy

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As much i agree with everyone of you, you’re just asking a deep, complex, different game.
Clearly, a cool game with some cool design, your ideas are adorable.
But as a guy told me on an other thread, when i was attempting to give some epic content suggestions : cool idea, but you’re asking a reprogram from the core. A gw3.
Shape the world, huh? That Anet gw2 PR was funny, hehe

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Crafting a legendary between two characters

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Just check what component is not bound to the char, and keep going. Some components are per char, some are interchangeable between chars of your account.

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Why wasn't this nerf included in patch notes?

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The HotW hole in the wall has been closed. I’m not complaining about that change.

Just when I was thinking you guys had learned that stealth nerfs kill all trust we have in you, you do it again, nerfing the HotW hole in the wall without telling us.

Once again, we’re left wondering “what else have they changed without telling us, because we’d get mad?”.
sigh

From when Anet dev team begged forgiveness to not release a patchnote full of every single fix and / or exploit removed, together with the current content of the patch? Also, if you don’t trust Anet because of unlisted fix, guess what, Anet is not interested on your opinion too hehe
If this behaviour hurts your feeling as a player, feel free to leave. Some left for this reason too. Nothing wrong, just … unprofessional behaviour.

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legendary gifts

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Significant amount of data? oO

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Eternity-When Will It Be Worthwhile?

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The design of this weapon is as you have it now. The eventual bug not corresponding to the day night cycle is fixed. That’s all, don’t expect anything more, i don’t.
One thing is ask a fix of an improper bug, one thing is ask a redesign.
As i explained on an other thread, makes big corrections to the design of a legendary means tell the designer he’s just an idiot who created a fail the community didn’t want at all. Eternity, the only legendary infused using 2 weapons is well, just a fail.
A fail made by the designer. Like any other legendary, Minstrel on top.
Believe me, every single new modification of every legendary hurts me. It’s a sign of how bad the designer was, and Anet even fixing a fail made by him just confirm how unprofessional can be the designer’s team.
Let’s hope the new set of legendaries , when online, will be made by a serious designer, this time.

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Mystic Forge for precursor

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WE will talk again about TESO when times will come. I hope will not be an other waste of money as i did here. I surely didn’t paid to play 3 months and at 4th leaving, logging to have fun looking the TP and something like this guy wrote

Few days ago I bought Venom (precursor for Kraitkin) for 23g. In like 3 days later, all 24 tridents cost from 70g down to 44,5g.

Pure manipulation. Someone bought the whole stock (because with prices around 25g it is no problem) and resold them for almost twice the old price.

I was stupid that I did not buy more of them, but lucky that I have at least one so cheaply.

Yup, just manipulation, even of underwater precursors.
Thinks, if just we had a company taking care to stop them..maybe so many of us was still ingame working toward this last goal, now, instead of playing other games waiting and hoping better for the next incoming mmo. A topic sad to be discussed on a main forum of an mmo. It’s absurd how so many thread have been opened like this one from 7 months, being just ignored by this company.
I even explained how the manipulation works on an other thread.
Wait, didn’t i explained it few months ago, too?

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Infusing Rings from Daily Vendor

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Not fun when you paid the infusion with expensive mats, looking at it disappearing.
I guess is what the OP was talking about.

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Is it reasonable to make more DE's?

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Ye, it’s new content, and we didn’t “pay” an expansion to play them.
I don’t get how do some DE and read some text until reset would “change” the story of tyria, and how is going to impact all of us in the future, honestly. I guess we have to wait the end of this “package”?

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Changing The World... Really?

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You should read and follow the thread linked, we talk about this exact topic.
Your behaviour makes a dialogue impossible.

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Cow catapult to screw you!

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Maybe a 9y old child can find this event funny.. or maybe is American humour like Mr Quinn said?……

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Lornar's pass - retake pinion pass event

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Bugged heart. Try to wait a server reset, be online exactly at the reset in front of the heart, pray. If still broken, wait one day a fix.

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Bah to "Put your pet away!"

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The problem is not just some funny children pretending to have a clue but also how pet behave ingame. Something Anet could fix easily. If just the word fix wasn’t something like the word miracle, about this game, lol
I sympathize with you, not everyone loved my necro pets before the fight. At least i learned to make them behave long ago, so children shush immediately when they fight, funnily alive back to me while players are downed huahua

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Changing The World... Really?

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Dragons are impossible to fail

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Considering dragons recently kicks out players like karka’s event making the battle unplayable, skills not working etc until kicked, or just kicking you out with an error, (hurrah, guesting) relogging on overflow losing the chest try to imagine if the dragon was moving around making a mess haha
We are enough lucky we have them, bugged and boring big chest farm for 3-5 minutes standing on your position attempting to spam something.
I mean seriously, don’t expect anything barely similar with the performance of this game at all, karka’s event performance was enough boring.
Also, their entire dragon’s animation is a preprogrammed script, from beginning to end. The only trigger is when he die. Go figure what kind of programming there is behind them..

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Infusing Rings from Daily Vendor

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From the Patch Notes:
“New ascended rings from the February build now have Mystic Forge infusion recipes available.”
are you incompetent

You got it right.

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Improving the Legendary effects..

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I guess he gave too much credit to Anet development, adding something cool to his beloved weapon maybe later, discovering noone gives a kitten of it nor planning to improve his weapon lol I bet he was PRETTY SURE about it haha
I’m still surprised some weapons got some tiny effects, go figure.
You know why? Because they are “out of design”. Basically add an effect means spit on the face of the creator of this weapon, telling him he’s just an idiot who made something the community didn’t want. Exactly what happened, all of them are on his way a fail or bugged (some now fixed) except the 2h sword (even eternity was bugged haha ) lol
Let’s not mention the best legendary fail of the history: Minstrel

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Is it reasonable to make more DE's?

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We was all rotating around your OP. No, DE is not the way to go, at all.
It’s a funny Anet version of the quest with the question mark on the head, that’s all.
New content still based on this method is not gonna be considered endgame nor make anyone interested. Except who is bored of the usual turboruns, just to do something else, for one day at least. 3rd chapter is out, 3rd day of something new yay.. zzzz

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Not a surprise at all, lol

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Mystic Forge for precursor

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Personally I think you’re overselling TESO. I’ve heard the claim “X mmo is gonna kill everything when it comes out” and usually it holds true for about a month, then it becomes the same ole same ole and people go back to their old mmo…..

Well that’s not true. This game would have been a king now and for long with a superb success, if the company didn’t ruin everything with bugged patches, karka’s event, various scams during festivities, etc etc etc.
TESO has superb graphic, a promise of huge battles, a great lore , a huge fanbase.
What is needed? A company listening the playerbase , an active forum where the community is truly able to communicate with the dev team, release cleaned patches (and if new bugs will pop, fix them quickly, 24 hours later), an active support team (ingame too if possible), don’t release near the final launch fake videos of something will not work at all ingame (like the huge battles we are talking about), don’t make an other casino (like the mystic toilet the best way to get a precursor, no special tricks or combinations as we explained, enjoy , OP) and many more.
Basically the exact opposite of everything is gw2 about management will be a guaranteed success lol
Am i exagerating?

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Volcanus | My own version of a Legendary!

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Definitively a beautiful weapon

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Mystic Forge for precursor

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Yup, agree, scam is not an easy task, requires attention and a proper despicable attitude.
Ye well, farm wasn’t exactly a choice. The game didn’t offer an alternative for sure.
No, the game will not be empty, loads under 18 are online, they will jump from this one to hallo kitty world online at best if feeling alone lol, at least not pesting our TESO

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Guild Wars 2 Taught Me Something About Myself

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Kimeni,

I don’t think Guild Wars is perfect. But I do think the current anti-trinity system is fantastic. And here’s why: all play styles are valuable and useful but none are required.

I don’t think anyone is questioning whether dps is viable in GW2, so I’ll skip that.

Healing and control are all still important. Snaring a boss on my elementalist and then laying down a healing field, for example, makes a huge difference. People may not thank me for it, but I can see the difference when I switch to my warrior.

Tanking is still powerful. I find that with a hammer guardian, good dodging, and altruistic healing, I can face-tank quite a few bosses. (Funny that a hammer is the best tanking weapon, right?) For example, I was playing my elementalist and Lieutenant Kholer crushed our pug group through two wipes. This was mostly because the rest of my group were dying like fruit flies. Anyway, I switched to my guardian and stood toe-to-toe with him while laying out near constant protection for all the melee players on my team. We rolled that overgrown ghost and the rest of the dungeon. I found great satisfaction in being a difference maker, in looking at people’s status bars and seeing protection up on almost the whole team. And in that case, I knew for a fact that my skill as a tank was key.

But these roles are not required. A massive DPS group can win. A more support oriented group can win. A mix can win. It all comes down to the talent of the individual players.

Because the roles are not required, I get to play however I want, tailoring the way I play to what I enjoy. In other words, I find that a dungeon group can win in any way.

Naturally, players will start to tend towards the most efficient option, massive DPS. I’d say that has more to do with player temperment than game design. But the mere fact that all options can be viable is mmo heaven to me. I can play any way I want and, as long as I do it well, my team will prosper.

Are you needed? Not in one role. What you are needed for is your skill. Play whatever role you like and you will benefit your group.

Just my little attempt to keep you playing a bit longer.

Absolutely true. Until the pug of wierdos of the day allow you to “play as you want”.
I guess you was referring to gameplay with your strict group of usual friends playing together. Realistically talking, the “turbo run” are nowadays the most popular.
You play as you want? “Kick this guy, find a serious dps , like a war” etc..

Final Fantasy XIV’s relaunch will be a trinity PVE game with some PvP. The open beta will start around late april/may. The guy in charge of that game now is pretty good, it may be worth looking at especially if you liked WoW or 8-24 man group content.

Absolutely agree, an other great trinity mmo is coming, uber graphic for real, and maybe finally, the game as it should have been long ago lol

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Mystic Forge for precursor

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I just dont get, where do you guys get so much money. I do dungeons, I do bosses and I started saving for legendary in December. I still need half of T6 mats, 250 globs of ectos and precursor. How do you get 600g to buy the precursor?

Simple. Farm cof+AC for a few days, turbo runs. Use tokens buying rares to create from thin air some ectos. Sell them. Sell every mat you get during those runs. Destroy rares dropped for more ectos to be sold or sell them as is, up to you. Exotics? Sell them. You will discover in a few weeks you made the money you need.
If instead you’re planning to double your cash, observe the TP, and start to powersell scamming around. For example buying 500g of mats, buying all the reserve of a mat, then resell them on packed stocks at YOUR minimum price (so you can still lead and make money if the smart of the day attempt to lower the price, buying immediately his mats reselling again at your price). Will be the new price, you will double the income. This is how the precursor scam is working. Buying and reselling them at double price, few days later. Clearly, who want to play something like precursors must have way more than 600g. Just a matter of time, working like a sheep (read carefully the word “working”) for your goal to be rich, and you will be.
Question is: don’t you have nothing else better on your life to do than waste your brain resources and lifetime on this stupid way of play, for the mmo of the month soon replaced by great mmos incoming?
I wonder how you will feel when soon TESO will be online and 85% of your guild moved out asap. (Assuming you’re 18+). All your time wasted… for…?
Oh right, be rich between the last children left ingame, right

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Improving the Legendary effects..

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A great suggestion here earlier regarding the FPS was to make it have trails. Not foot trails, but an aura trail of flying pages from the book. It would have that blue ghostly aura.

Cool idea. So many was wrote, noone applied..

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Is it reasonable to make more DE's?

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IMHO, the DE system as it stands is a horrible way to introduce new content. I’d much prefer -dare I say it- instanced versions of open-world maps, like a group version of the personal story steps (or GW1’s Winds of Change). With this format, the people who want to be immersed in the new content can have their epic battles without watching the level 8 character throw snowballs at Norn kids 100 metres away. Additionally, the people who only have 2 hours a week or something can organize with their friends to log on that one night and try out a part of a living story arc.

Yes, this is what i meant: something like Wind of change. This is a living world where do something change the world around you for real. And just for the player when logged, having time to log, playing the “change”. Completing a long series of events, DEs, huge battles (even with AI support like some story mode AI driven battles, or even playing with a friend on the same event arch) will have a different world than what can see an user who didn’t do that content. And when done, an other “wind of change” pops available to be done, changing again the world around you. FOREVER..
After all, it’s what Anet advertised talking about gw2, what we had on gw1.
We don’t have anything like this here.
Just a bunch of new stupid repeatable DEs with an Anet PR pretending to tell us this is a living world..

See, HiddenNick? Doesn’t collide with other player’s interests, noone is losing nothing because sleeping etc.

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What's the breakdown on Ascended gear?

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I guess i wasn’t clear, i agree with both of you. Nothing on this game is a proof of knowledge nor “be a pro”. Not even my armor, considering how it was exploited.
Just a matter of time and you get everything on this game. This game is so poorly designed to give away even ascended items. I guess the “pro” i meant was the one who played more hours than others. Maybe the dungeon master title is some form of “proish knowledge of the game”? It’s supposed to have a higher knowledge of the game, as much clearly a lot of players even playing 18 hours per day with 3 legendaries will remains hopeless junk.

We gave the answer to the OP yet, and in case it got confused it was: Ascended gear is some gear with pink text, higher stats, and collect the entire set require a lot of time online (not too much). Not absolutely needed, but clearly better than the typical common set obtainable ingame. If interested, go for it.

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Wrong E-mail on Purchase.

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IF you opened the ticket on the appropriate section, a few days.

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Building a new system

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Mix them
The first system, with the GPU of the second one, will give you what you need.

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Wrong E-mail on Purchase.

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Open a ticket to support
https://en.support.guildwars2.com/

They will gladly refund your first account deleting it.

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The end of Occlusion Culling.

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Aye oke, i’ll follow you.
1 Well, we both are realistic.
2 We’ll see. Yes, i saw loads mmo (gw2 on top) selling scams never improved or just a disappointment. I just have the “feeling” TESO will be as promised.
I guess the same feeling gw2 will be (as you agree) just a fail about this culling patch, and with loads threads yelling to Anet lol.
Still wondering when will be applied to the PVE part, like dragon events..

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What's the breakdown on Ascended gear?

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Sadly, i agree. We both agree this game is heavily poor designed, everyone speding time ingame will have everything, there is nothing unique, except maybe my armor, as you said. At least , still a proof of knowledge. And my title , maybe.
So fun when i meet players pretending to tell me how to play the content or barely assuming i’m playing not as expected, just because my phone rang lol
A shame some abused of tokens for weeks wearing part of this armor or even a full set, not even having any barely idea of what was going on after that stone jumped using a glitch.

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Is it reasonable to make more DE's?

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Not true. I was uberexcited to be part of an unique nextgen event like the upcoming karka event, when devs announced it. I was so excited to play a new generation of a huge battle. Didn’t expect that “junk” for sure hehe
As i said, i wasn’t focusing on uber events for a few minutes, but on permanent changes of the world we are living. Clearly, a key event must happens, to determine why a world is full of vegetations with funny DEs with some big attacks, and one is with a permanent bloody sky, with horrible continuous attacks. The feeling of an epic game, where something unique happens and last, forever. And YOU was part of what happened. What you did MADE THE DIFFERENCE. And well, sometimes the commander die, changing the course of the events.
I’m not dreaming that much, a game attempting to be permanent about the life of the player was Fable. What happened, happened. Who died, died.
THIS is a living world.
What we have is just a bunch of preprogrammed DEs where be online or not, doing them or not, doesn’t change a kitten 10 minutes later, it’s resetted.
If you read carefully the propaganda Anet was scamming around prelaunch, they was talking about gw2 exactly like this: a world alive, permanent , what we will do even on the story mode questline will determine the future, a living world. Oh my, rofl..
An example? Take a look at GW1. There was a particular series of events on LA.
Don’t do it, and the world around you will be as you remember. Do it, and look what happens: new mobs pops where wasn’t supposed to be, attaccking around.
On some ways, what you did matters, what you was able to see wasn’t for every other player. Just who did that content was part of it. Wait, gw1 is an Anet product, lol.
So , how we have this gw2 senseless non-living world?
Designer perspective, is it?

p.s. note for the reader: my post are giving a feedback and suggestion about the section: a living world. This is not a whine or a negative attitude. Quite the opposite. I truly hope a dev is reading those posts, believe me.

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What's the breakdown on Ascended gear?

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Respect meeting “the pro”. Something others around should pay.
Old school i guess, looking your answer. Your post is the typical attitude nowadays, don’t worry. New generation forgot the meaning of the word respect about everything, let’s not mention respect a pro walking near you on an mmo.
Someone who spent a lot of time ingame (way more than the usual mass around) who shine because of his armor,weapons, title, whatever symbolizing the difference. Basically the pure spirit of a graphic mmo, we all play for shinies and be “the best”.
This pro is just an idiot like any other for you, why respect him, right? How the hell he would know 100 times better than you the game. Except he do
Same apply for a full ascended set. Requires A LOT of time and dedication, ingame.
Not something you go to buy to the merch after your first log for sure.
Do anyone respect a full ascended set player?
Your post confirmed what you quoted
But i have to agree to a part of your post: any prick with some free time can get the entire set. This game is so poorly designed to not give anything ingame worthy nor something could make you be CLEARLY superior. The core feeling of an mmo.
Even a noob with some free time not even moving out of LA can wear a legendary weapon, just playing the TP a bit and buying a preforged one, not even knowing a kitten of his skills lol, go figure
That’s why everyone is so sick of legendaries , i guess. It’s the only way to “shine” between the mass. Shame they are an other design fail, and loads have one. Exploited, gained, bough scamming someone with the TP not even moving out of LA from day 1, whatever

So OP, as you see, ascended gear is just a pink object with higher stats and requiring a lot of time, that’s all. Soon, ascended will be autoupdated to the pink color and upper stats too.

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What's the breakdown on Ascended gear?

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Better stats for your char. Now you can get an entire set on every part of your body. Playing fractals, guild goals , laurels. This is what you would call “endgame”, wear the entire ascended set with stats you need. The final result is a higher performance when the set is complete. Needs a lot of effort and maybe weeks and weeks of work (laurels needs dailies+monthly, quite a long goal). Funnily, you will not get any respect nor a preferral choice joining a group even having a full ascended set, noone respect anyone on this game about anything, not even wearing a legendary, go figure.
Interested?

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Improving the Legendary effects..

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No, your threads will be ignored as usual, and deleted at best.

Do we want to talk about Meteorlogicus?

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4 rare greatswords + Mystic fore = AXE ??

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Don’t question mighty Zommoros

We don’t blame the dealer, we want to burn on a pike the casino owner (Anet) hehe
Same happened to me too, multiple times, getting different weapons.
(And by far i’m one of the players who wasted less than most on the mystic toilet for sure lol)

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Any more legendary weapons/offhands?

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No new legendary is missing. All legendaries have been discovered and crafted once, even underwater weapons ( i truly pity who is wearing one lol).
Pick one you like, or wait new legendaries, one day, when online.

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The end of Occlusion Culling.

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jerky animations?

guess your view of jerky is different from mine and most other peoples, i have shown that video and a few others to 20+ people and none of them viewed it as jerky, but from your statements I take it you dont like TES anyway so that explains your hate/pessimism for TESO since you also are just sure its gamebryo based…….

oh well, if it runs as well as they say it does or even 1/2 that well, your more then welcome to stick to gw2 or whatever floats your boat and you can even badmouth it without every playing it, by then, most of us will have moved on since anet clearly dont plan to do anything to make the game run decent in DE’s and WvWvW…..2 of the main selling points of the game.

Perfect truth. The game will perform as we saw on those videos, but fixed, better, faster. And as you said even if was 1/2, most of who is still left on this game will move out quickly. And no, not because is the new mmo. Just because it’s well.. better about everything hehe Expecially massive battles, the so beloved wvw.
I moved out yet, signed for beta, waiting the TESO launch like mad
Leave him on his illusion gw2 is a great game and everyone will stick on it lol , would be just an waste of time and a flame.

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