Guild Wars 2

Blade shards are needlessly taking up my inventory space, and the more I get from aether path TA the more they stack up! Can we get a spot for them in the collections tab please?

Yargesh.4965:

You know that other players can mess with how the aspects work during the race?

Could you specify how? So I can work around it.

I played some sanctum sprints today to get achievement and found the concept really cool, but I smashed my keyboard about 10 times because of how broken it is. I should have came 3rd place atleast 3 times, all of which were ruined by kittentiy kittening mechanics that just don’t work! I am so frustrated it’s nearly driving me away from the game. Things such as when i go into light aspect as soon as I come out of lightening aspect it shoots me backwards, dropping me off a cliff and losing me the race, or the light aspect not cancelling when i clearly cancelled it. Sometimes I move about 200 metres while in light aspect even when i tried to cancel it. Lightening aspect is just as bad, throwing me off cliffs and into places I never even targetted, and when I’m moving point to point it still cant do it! Dropping me mid jump! FIX THE kittenING THING!!!

I think I put the emphesis on this post about her bikini, but infact just moving them to that different place is weird! They were meant to be looking after taimi. Does none of this seem strange? whychange this mid patch?

They moved Kasameer and Marjory into a deserted part of the map and put Kasameer into her bikini! They was looking after taimi at the bridge to sanctum before this little update. This just seems like a strange thing to do, especially not including it in the patch notes with a reason. Any thoughts?

I seem to be getting credit for the amount of runs I do in the “activities” sanctum sprint achievements, but no credit for the amount of runs I do for the festival of the four winds achievement “dedicated sprinter”. A fix would be great guys!

So when I initially bought the game, I know that the micro-transactions where kinda a massive deal for me not to buy the game until I heard that everything is obtainable in-game including black lion chest keys. I remember getting maybe 1-2 key drops in the whole time I played at launch before taking an extended leave. Now I’ve come back, and played far more then my initial play through at launch and not a single drop of a key at all! Have they made them stop dropping or something? Because forcing people to use the waaay over inflated currency exchange to buy keys is way too hard and I’ve only been able to save up for 1 single key in 2 weeks. Kinda kittening me off. Can somebody enlighten me on the drop rates of keys? Since they have obviously changed for the worst.

Hey guys, really loving the patch at the moment, checking out new builds and appearences hehe how do I get the free 10 transmutation charges you get free for logging in to the game today? thanks in advance:)

Fredgerd.3204:

If transmutation stones can’t be farmed from map completion anymore and we’re forced to use gems, that will be really annoying

I totally agree, I completed some of my alts map completions to check the amount they give you before patch, and I’ll do one now and see how many, if any at all. I really hope they still give you them.

Cinnamon Goddess.3869:

Lets not forget ESO that just launched. It’s art style will be more appealing to some

Ah yes, ESO’s AMAZING art style of generic western fantasy is the main reason people are drawn to play ESO. Jesus, how did you even think of that stupid reason?

Farzo.8410:

Don’t stop earning achievement points.

Just don’t open the chests until the change where they are removing glory boosters.

I wish I knew not to open it BEFORE I opened it, feel totally cheated.

I just got an achievement chest and opened it up to find 2 PVP glory boosters!!!! Shall I stop earning achievement points for the time being if literally useless items such as not 1, but 2 glory boosters are being given out as part of large reward milestones? Can I get some karma boosters instead or something that is of value in the game since glory is being completely removed and you’re giving refunds for these boosters when bought from the trading post? Either take them out of reward chest/loot completely or start giving something as an alternative since this is obsurd.

…oh and sort your framerate out Anet, cant do a jumping puzzle with my framerate zipping up and down like a hookers skirt.

Just had over 150 attempts at the jumping puzzle, and mastered the hard path but have never EVER gotten to the end, why? Because of how kittening kitten the jumping puzzle is and everything surrounding it. I make it to the final stage where you have to climb the presents 75% of the time but the randomisation of how the presents disappear makes me fall every single time. Takes every ounce of skill out of the jumping puzzle and makes me want to leave the game completely. also when I’ve made it to the top of the the presents, some bug pushes me off just before I get onto the candy cane to the giant snowballs!!! I am so demoralised that I’ve decided to give up on the jumping puzzle even though I’ve mastered the hardest part!!!!!! SORT YOUR GAME OUT ANET! ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE!

ToT.7018:

Hi Maus Hous,
yes you can get your achievements if you guest.

Cheers for the confirmation mate, I thought this was the case but needed some clarification:)

I really want the tequatl achievements but when I visit sparkfly fen on my server, nobody’s ever there!! If I guest onto another server which is very high population and join in on their tequatl will I still gain the achievements? Thanks in advance for a reply:)

Khisanth.2948:

Emissary.3792:

I think the patch notes said they’re now a currency, so you should see them in your wallet.

No but you can now double click on a pristine to convert it into 15 regular relic.

Oh really? thats what must have happened hahaha thanks for the reply

Emissary.3792:

I think the patch notes said they’re now a currency, so you should see them in your wallet.

I checked and could see no such thing:( would like some confirmation tho!

So I log in today, first day on the new patch so go to kessex to try out the final toxic tower instance, I complete it and get some rewards straight after the final cutscene. I get some fractal relics, I think they were pristine so I look for my relics in my inventory to notice they’ve all been wiped! I don’t know if this is a bug from the new patch and when I got some more it deleted all of them or what, just wondering if you could back log and see what happened to my relics in my inventory? This is why we seriously need a bank slot for these pristine ones…..

YangMan.1928:

Yeah, I did figure out that’s what you were getting at Maus Hous but life’s too short…..

I guess :P

YangMan.1928:

go to www.dulfy.net as she has all the answers

That’s the point I’m making, I shouldn’t HAVE to go to those websites to find out, it should be made correctly so I don’t have to.

lordkrall.7241:

Talk to Majory.

I did, she said “look at the extremes of the molten alliance” :S WTF! I went on the wiki to even read about it, no answers there.

I feel like all of the puzzles apart from the toxic one are not very intuitive, if that’s the right word to use here. I did the toxic one first and fine, but for the other 3, well since I’ve just come back to the game at haloween I now don’t know the answers to these questions! or atleast the clockwork one. The aether puzzle was just random selection, and I’m still stuck on the Molten one because, well it gives no clues what so ever! I don’t mind giving people who played the living story something to remember when they come to these questions, but more context and hints is definately needed for people who have just come back. I bet theirs a bunch of clever ways to give context without giving the whole puzzle away, just my thoughts

grumbles.5412:

For those that seen the cutscene

hide spoiler

ArenaNet took a page out of the Micheal Bay’s book of “How Things Should Happen”

Everything explodes on death! (Including explosions)

Even dying plants can explode.

It was awesome tho, I think everybody would have been disappointed if it just wilted over and dried up hahaha

So I was looking through the gem store the other day, saw the Grenth hood and instantly fell in love with it since it’s the most awesome necro hood ever, when I went to preview the hood it took all my clothes off and just applied the hood so I couldn’t tell what it looked like with my cool armour. Secondly When I decided that I was going to pick up some gems for the hood I started looking around at other things I may want to pick up aswell, and that’s when I saw Marjorys Dagger. My first problem with wepons in Gem store is that the preview of it doesn’t have it wielded, and since it’s a small dagger it was behind my arm tucked away clipping through my robes, so A wielding preview would be greatly appreciated. Also I thought the dagger looked abit dull for something worth £6, so I searched a preview on youtube to discover it’s got the most awesome snake tail annimation on it and glows a dark green!!!! I instantly wanted to pick up the dagger with my grenth hood!!

What I’m trying to say here is that Anet is shooting themselves in the foot by not properly implementing the tools to view their content on the gem store properly. Make is so that the particle effects and cool other effects on the armours and weapons are visible!! and make them to be viewed on the character how they look in game, with their armour/weapons in the preview, it’s a win win situation for both of us:)

So im building a power/conition damage necro since half the skills I use damage with raw damage, and the other half with conditions (I have 750 cond dmg, 1200 power) I use staff, and switch to dagger/focus when I need some serious single target damage. Right now I have sigil of corruption on my dagger to get stacks of condition damage, and sigil of earth on my staff so I have a chance for a bleed on crit, along with its extremely short 2 second cooldown. Any thoughts on what would be more optimal for my build especially my sigils since their is an absolutely massive range of them to choose from.

Seras.5702:

MAUS HOUS.8047:

…. <stufkitteno 79.3 is the amount of damage done at 1 stack of bleeds is 79.3 per tick? That seems a little lack luster for a level 80:P Is this correct? Sorry but I really want to get this right so I can fine tune my build.

To clarify your damage: this is per stack. I’m sure you can easily stack 10 bleeds on a target with almost no effort, giving you a sustained 793 damage per tick on top of whatever else you’re doing to that target.

Also, 736 is not a very high number for a condition build. If you’re striving for 100% conditions you’ll want to get that higher and/or supplement with might stacks. If you’re running a hybrid of power & condition damage, then I’d say that’s quite good actually.

Yes I’m running power and condition damage, with a little vitality and toughness thrown in there for survivability:) I got about 1200 Power. Playing as a necro

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

For example, my ranger has 100 condition damage. This means his bleeds do:

(0.05*100) + 42.5
5 + 42.5
47.5
47
Each stack of bleeding causes 47 damage per tick.
———————————————————————————————————————
My necro on the other hand has 1519 condition damage and gets another 250 with full stacks of corruption. This means his bleeds do:

(0.05*1769) + 42.5
88.45 + 42.5
130.95
130
Each stack of bleeding causes 130 damage per tick.
———————————————————————————————————————
Each stack of might adds 35 to your condition damage stat ( at level 80), so lets assume I have an Elementalist in the party and he’s throwing out 25 Might stacks like bacon at BBQ:

(((0.05*(1769+(35*25))) + 42.5
((0.05*(1769+875)) + 42.5
(0.05*2644) + 42.5
132.2 + 42.5
174.7
174
Each stack of bleeding causes 174 damage per tick.

Brilliantly explained, thankyou very very much

STRanger.5120:

MAUS HOUS.8047:

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

Uninterpretable Thing? Do you not know basic mathematics?

(0.05 * Condition Damage) + (0.5 * Level) + 2.5 per stack per second
(0.05 * Condition Damage) + 42.5 per stack per second at level 80

Just plug in your Condition Damage and there you have it.

You did absolutely nothing to help me there, you just quoted the wiki page which I’ve already seen. What are the * for? do they take the form of a mathematic symbol? I’m quite new to MMO’s so I need some constructive help here, not slandering me off synically, asking me if I know basic mathematics. What do you mean by “plug in my condition damage”?

Ok then, simply put, " * " is a multiplication mark (in some countries, like mine, we use " x " for that), and the words “condition damage” means the amount of condition damage stat you have.

Is it clear now?

(0.05 * Condition Damage) + 42.5 per stack per second at level 80

Using the quote from the wiki, with my 736 cond dmg, make sure im doing this right for sure:P so…

0.05×736=36.8 + 42.5 = 79.3

So 79.3 is the amount of damage done at 1 stack of bleeds is 79.3 per tick? That seems a little lack luster for a level 80:P Is this correct? Sorry but I really want to get this right so I can fine tune my build.

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

Uninterpretable Thing? Do you not know basic mathematics?

(0.05 * Condition Damage) + (0.5 * Level) + 2.5 per stack per second
(0.05 * Condition Damage) + 42.5 per stack per second at level 80

Just plug in your Condition Damage and there you have it.

You did absolutely nothing to help me there, you just quoted the wiki page which I’ve already seen. What are the * for? do they take the form of a mathematic symbol? I’m quite new to MMO’s so I need some constructive help here, not slandering me off synically, asking me if I know basic mathematics. What do you mean by “plug in my condition damage”?

I looked on the wiki and the formula is some kind of uninterpretable “thing”. What I got from it is at level 80, each stack of bleed does 42.5 damage per tick and each point of condition damage increases it by 0.005, is this right? if not can somebody explain it in laymans terms please:)

Danikat.8537:

It helps to play on the American districts though. I hung on in the European ones until GW2 came out (even before then lots of people in Europe used to insist on using the American districts) but then switched and it did help a lot.

Hmm I may have to do that, just to try it out atleast, usually having a high ping only matters if youre playing a first person shooter in my past experience, since reactions matter alot but in RPG’s reaction times are not really an issue so high ping shouldnt really hurt the gameplay too much at all. Even if it does I can still use the NPC’s in my party on the EU servers.

SoPP.7034:

Elite skills are useless in some scenarios… can be useful however are very SITUATIONAL

Elite skills are MEANT to be situational! Large buffs and powerful skills make them meant for situations when you’re in need of something very powerful. So they work as expected, the water elites tho need more variety, as my necro has 1 underwater elite. It is a powerful elite skill, but some choice wouldn’t go a miss.

Farzo.8410:

You can play Original Guild Wars solo all the way through. All the missions can be done and the side quests as well.

You might get some Hall of Monument points, but to get the higher points you will need to grind as hell, and it can take months to get it all.

Some parts might be too hard to solo though, but that’s nothing to worry about if you’re only after the lore.

That’s brilliant news! Currently installing GW1 now, you mentioned some parts which may be too hard to solo, are they dungeons or something? And just to clarify, all side quests and main story quests are completely viable to solo definately?

I just watched a few of WoodenPotatoes videos about lore in the Guild Wars universe and I find it to be very creative and original in alot of places, my only gripe tho is that alot of the lore and stuff is in GW1. I do own GW1 factions but have never played it due to me buying it along time ago and never really got into the game. I was wondering if it’s possible to solo GW1 and all the expansions so I can learn the lore and maybe get some hall of monument rewards aswell? Or is it totally party dependant?

Brionesli.5904:

So what was in the chest after you’ve done the story run? We’ve managed to defeat the final boss in the story but the door for the room with the chest did not open…

You get teleported to a reward room right after you defeat the final boss (the anomaly guy at the top) no door opens to a loot room or anything, you kill the guy, watch short cinematic and boom, big fat chest in front of you haha. This patch is quite buggy tho, so I’m guessing you encountered one and didn’t receive your reward:( You just get some gold and some gear anyway, oh and the agony resist +1 infusions to help you raise to higher fractals.

I ended up saving my gasmask skin for when a good aquabreather comes out just so I don’t have to waste it on a crap one. I feel if it was added to the achievements reward tab like the zenith skins and the vambraces it would be alot better since I could use it on all my characters aswell:D What’re your views guys?

Same here, completed the story and the only option when re-entering is story mode again!! Encountered many various bugs like getting stuck in the wall shield at the panel after using the shields to block the lasers, died in the hot room before cooling it, then it didnt cool after so i couldn’t be revived, and I couldnt waypoint back to checkpoint because they was bugged aswell. After logging out and in 5 times and finally completing the story mode I didn’t get the achievment AND have to do the story mode again.

Raven.9603:

Agree with the OP, this is rediculous.

By basically retouching human T3 and putting it up for sale, they have:

1) Insulted every player that worked hard to afford human T3 by making it available for gems

2) Insulted every player that worked hard to afford human T3 by making a just-slighty cooler looking version – that will cost them $10

3) Insulted every player that rolled a human just to have good looking cultural armor

Whats next, for 1600 gems we can buy other races elite skills? SNOW LEOPARD FOR EVERYONE!

Make good looking armors Anet, but keep exclusives exclusive. This was a terrible idea. I’ve been disappointed with class changes in every game (being mad about class balance is part of every game); but this is the first time i felt like a company spit on a players hard work and racial choices.

Literally couldn’t have put it better myself, well said. (P.S Class/skill balance in this game is abysmal to put it lightly.)

I’ve just come back to the game aswell, severely kitten ed off right now it’s unreal! Anet make good game, but a game like this where I buy gems to support them need to keep customers happy, and this…. well this is just the opposite, don’t think i’ll be buying anymore gems until Anet give us some answers for this absurd strategy

goldenwing.8473:

Solo dungeons did not end up being particularly popular in RIFT.

If you have more detailed information regarding ideas for a dungeon to solo (outside of stories), please post in the suggestion forum.

That is not an endorsement of the idea, just a pointer to the correct forum for the thread.

I think you’ll find this IS in the suggestions forum, now stop trying to be uptight because the OP hasn’t really expanded on his idea, you made no attempt what so ever to add an idea or refine what he said apart from synically ask him to move the post to the place where it already was!!

Now that’s being cleared I don’t think personally solo dungeons are the way to go, as somebody already mentioned, if u want solo dungeons, go play a singleplayer game like skyrim or the PERSONAL story, or is it specifcally the type of gameplay you’d like to solo? I guess you could solo story mode dungeons with a really good character, still not the same tho is it :/

Garrisyl.7402:

Well for starters, Anet stated that they estimated only 5% of players to ever achieve a legendary weapon. This is a design choice, it is meant to be that hard.

I bet more then 5% of ACTIVE players who sign in atleast once a week have atleast 1 legendary. I am not one since I have just returned to the game, but with Anet saying theyre going to be adding precurser crafting/scavenger hunt, more and more people are going to be getting them. Also with the quote of yours which I mentioned earlier, Anet also thought that players would never achieve exotics for a very long time, and now were having ascended introduced because they got that wrong.

So would people in WVW be able to use this universal chat system? It could break wvw with people giving away zerg positions, also smaller groups for zergs to decimate. I guess if it was disabled in wvw it could work. Games like diablo 3 where they make a new universal chat channel when each one fills up, making each chat channel full, and not too full for them to be too many people talking at once…

Druss.6917:

You do know you can upgrade to the deluxe edition with game gold by buying gems right? There’s no need to QQ about “things being pushed on you when you don’t want them”. Simply save up the gold and buy it if it bothers you that much.

With the way gold-to-gems is going at the moment, I’d say its rather impossible with the rate it’s inflating.

Leeto.1570:

Its so you can drool for deluxe edition which is how you unlock it.

It’s a collectors edition only skill? Wow that is complete bullkitten. I feel like Anet is pushing things on me when I don’t want them. Respect has been lost here:/

I have returned to the game a couple of weeks back to find a new skill added to my necro! But oh… I can’t unlock it for some reason? maybe it’s a bug? I have many skill points to spend on it but for some reason it just sits there in my skill tree with no way to unlock it!! Is it a bug, or was it introduced in one of the previous living stories and had to play it to unlock it? Either way it should be removed for people who didn’t unlock it because it’s just staring at me from my skill tree saying “UNLOCK MEEEEEE, DON’T LEAVE ME GREYED OUT!” Anybody got some answers please?:D

I’ve just come back to the game since launch, noticed how horribly small the personal bank is, so wanted to save all the gold I earned to buy some more slots. little did I know my 2 gold when I started a few weeks back got me more gems then my 20g does now!!!

I’m no economist or anything but surely theirs some way to curb and slow this huge inflation in price, soon their will be no point to a currency exchange due to the prices becoming too high. opinions on how this inflation could be slowed or solved would be good to hear, or just general feedback:)

Havnt got the problem that you guys have, but with Anet refunding your gems, that is brilliant customer service! well done Anet:) love you guys

I see no point of them adding this “trait” to enemies the game, it does nothing gameplay wise and is an absolute and un-needed pain in the backside to gain the achievement! I’d have miles preferred if they just extended the tiers for killing any and all toxic alliance, easier and more fun.

This is all amazing stuff guys, thank you so much:D It’s all totally appreciated. I’m now going to spend my morning researching everything you’ve all said to find my perfect way of doing it. Thankyou all again, and get out there to kill some stinky kitten krait!