It is being reported by a dev that MF will simply be removed from celestial gear with nothing added.
More to come in a blog post….soon they say.
So I’ll have a whole second set of armor that is pretty useless, but at least I get to choose the stat?
I already have my main set of zerker armor. No need for a second set of that or any other armor.
Any word on runes? What will happen with them?
You’re pretty much gaining another armor set for free (or at a huge discount). And you can put them on alts when leveled to 80
I’m not gaining anything for free. I’ve paid for this second set already. And I’ve paid more for it than what a second set of different stats would have cost initially. It’s just that I really won’t need a second set now.
Alts? Who would level an alt to 80 now. No reason to with all the un-friendly alt changes.
Besides, my alts have their own armor of a different type. My main is medium armor and my alt is a mesmer. This change won’t help my alt.
So I’ll have a whole second set of armor that is pretty useless, but at least I get to choose the stat?
I already have my main set of zerker armor. No need for a second set of that or any other armor.
Any word on runes? What will happen with them?
Not new, just very rare.
Remapping a key isn’t against the TOS. Using an actual macro is. To define a remapped key as a macro is a little ludicrous.
Their ridiculous explanation about macros does little to justify them promoting a keyboard with macro capability.
Again, its not a nerf. It’s just taking an existing sigil and throwing a bunch of T6 materials and ecto on it.
Surely anyone who wants to wield ascended gear can afford a trifling cost?
There is a huge difference between a sigil and an offensive infusion. +5 power, +5 AR infusion is quite different from a sigil of bloodlust.
That would be a nerf.
I really, REALLY hope that the new offensive infusion slot is in addition to the upgrade slot for the sigil.
Removing the sigil and adding an infusion slot would be a serious nerf.
Talk like a pirate event.
Doing ANYTHING in this game will get you XP. Heart quests. Killing. Mining ore. Logging trees. Harvesting plants. Crafting. Dynamic events. Map completion.
4/4 will soon be worthless.
The +20% xp infusion is already pretty darn useless as it is anyways. Levels come way to easy once you hit 80 to worry about another +20% xp.
Man, you guys have much better luck looting these events than me.
I can average 3-5 gold per event. No matter how many bags I end up with, I still only end up with 2-3 rares and no exotics.
That backpack full of greens only sells for so much.
Guess RNG is just a PITA for some of us.
According to the ‘leaked’ list of sale items, name change contracts and makeover kits will not make it into the sale.
Great news!
We now have a miniature Set #2 out!!!!!!!
“higher priority and wider reaching”
Sept 2.. last call.. drink em if you got em.
The update on Sept 3 will change karma consumables and make them not affected by any boosters.
If you made an underwater legendary in the first place, that’s your mistake. As for the lake, it’s still there there are just 5 new surrounding objectives next to it.
Is the lake still there or are those just moats surrounding the new objectives? I surely hope that the lake is still there under these objectives, but everything I have seen seems to indicate that it has been removed.
And it’s not my mistake for making a legendary weapon that I chose. I know underwater legendaries are not popular and I know the reasoning, but a decision to remove an entire aspect of the game from WvW does not consitute my mistake.
With the upcoming changes to the lake areas of the borderland maps, will there be any underwater combat areas left in WvW?
I realize a whole group of people out there hate underwater combat, but there were still those of us out there that enjoy it.
I’m so glad I finished my legendary Frenzy last month. Going to be a blast showing it off while walking around the borderlands. What a slap in the face.
“Only newly obtained skins in select sets are tradable. In the past, we intended those skins to be account-bound and not tradable. After the change, these skins will remain account-bound and not tradable. We will continue to monitor the value of those skins, but at this time, there is no plan to make tradability retroactive.”
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Merged-Can-t-sell-my-weapon-skins/first
Doesn’t look good for those who already had their weapons.
Not being able to sell a skin you already have is not a bug (or so the Devs have said).
New skins will be sellable/tradeable but existing skins will not become sellable/tradeable on a retroactive basis. If that makes sense.
There was a post about it in the Bug forum.
Sigil has been, and still is, fine to change.
There is a new item that was data mined that will allow you to extract runes/sigils without destroying the associated armor/weapon. Probably will be a gem store item.
How about showing some love for underwater combat and add some new content underwater.
I know lots of people hate underwater combat, but there are still plenty of us that love it.
A lot of us hate jumping puzzles, but we get a new one of those nearly every month. Why can’t we have a little bit of everything added?
Instead of just adding more jumping puzzles and no other type of content, spread the love around a little and add some underwater action for those of us that love it.
The real question or issue is, how do these clones look to other people? Defeats the purpose a little if they look totally different than you.
Underwater combat needs a little love.
Not every aspect of this game is for everyone. Lot’s of people hate jumping puzzles, but we constantly get a new one of those.
Yet, no underwater update.
There would be nothing wrong with adding an underwater update every now and again in addition to the dozen or so jumping puzzles that are added.
Saddens me that a whole aspect of the game is being ignored and pushed out.
Why does the timer in the upper right still indicate that you can participate in the event if you actually can’t?
If 10 minutes has passed and I can’t get into the zone to participate, then the timer should not be misleading me.
Only the character that used the recipe will learn the recipe.
ANet trolling us again.
I hear it has a low chance to drop from the WvW chests and will drop from other places in the future.
Everyone will say RNG is RNG and talk about tin foil hats.
Truth is, there are a couple guildies of mine that consistantly get good drops. One has had three precursor drops. Consistantly gets exotics from the MF. Just overwhelming better drops than most in the guild.
Then there are a few of us guildies that decent drops seem to be extinct. I can do multiple dungeon runs and farm with this ‘lucky’ guildie and our drops in comparison are way out of touch with each other.
Just my experience, and I agree with the OP. It might just be RNG, but it is either consistant bad RNG or consistant good RNG. The RNG factor has not evened out over time for either of these. You either have good RNG or bad RNG.
Oh please.
We had a sylvari single handedly (with very little or no help from your main character) defeat Zhaitan. He is truly the hero of Tyria and famous.
And you’re asking for more Sylvari?! Please.
Yeah, we had a Sylvari hero about a year ago. Do we need any more?
I was thinking the same thing as the OP.
All of these utility infusions are or will become significantly less useful.
Karma is so plentiful in the open world that the 15% boost just for these purporses is ridiculous. Not many people would purchase this item just for this reason.
They introduce new items, like these utility infusions, only to turn around not that much later and utterly change the effectiveness of them.
It seems they can not make up their minds on the direction they want the game to go.
Just a big gold sink and waste of WP costs to jump into a zone with zero chance of getting into the event.
If the message in the upper right tells me there is an invasion going on, I should have a chance to get into it. If there is no chance I can participate, it shouldn’t tell me that there is.
Wasting my time, money, and has gotten me totally frustrated with the event.
Am I expected to stand around for an hour or two until an event pops and WP in at that exact moment or be out of luck?
Even the time I got into an event (failed miserably on the one OF it put me in) I didn’t see any portals to close. How in the world do you get those achievements? The portals are in the air and you can not reach them to close them.
There are still a few legendaries that really need some polishing. Meteorlogicus is definately on that list.
I sure hope they polish these legendaries BEFORE deciding to add new ones. That would be a real shame to ignore the ones they have and are in need of polishing and add new ones first.
Heck, I’m waiting for my Frenzy to add some special projectiles or something. It is beautiful, has fish that swim around it, and SOMETIMES gives you an aura. But the projectiles are still the same old boring stuff.
Thats what i want to make sure of that they arnt done with this batch of legendarys and are already moving on to the secound batch otherwise i mineaswell just wait it out and see if i cant get something better even though i have everything i need for this legendary
If you have everything, I would probably wait unless you REALLY want one of the current legendaries.
I mistakenly made my second legendary, Frenzy, literally the day before the announcement of new legendaries. Oh well, saving for the third one now.
But it would be nice to hear some sort of response from the Devs about the situation with the current legendaries and whether or not they will be polished and if so, when.
There has been an ‘object’ that was data mined that will take a transmuted item and revert it back to it’s core two components. Sorta like a reverse transmutation.
If they have this capability, then you should have no problem un-transmuting your legendary. At the very least, it may cost a little $$ to obtain this item to un-transmute, but it should be doable.
You also have to remember that drop rates on these ‘rare materials’ were quite different at launch then they are now.
This game is quite a different game, and some recipes are now just plain ridiculously expensive as a result.
There are still a few legendaries that really need some polishing. Meteorlogicus is definately on that list.
I sure hope they polish these legendaries BEFORE deciding to add new ones. That would be a real shame to ignore the ones they have and are in need of polishing and add new ones first.
Heck, I’m waiting for my Frenzy to add some special projectiles or something. It is beautiful, has fish that swim around it, and SOMETIMES gives you an aura. But the projectiles are still the same old boring stuff.
I’m so glad, with the plethora of weapon choices on the Engie, that I got the Frenzy legendary harpoon gun.
So powerful and loads of special effects.
Great news!!
While we may not have any resources working on a fix to the hobo-sacks or legendary/kit issue, we are going to get SAB returned next month with a new world!
Oh, and don’t forget about the new Zodiac weapons!!!
And… if that wasn’t enough…. new finishers!
“higher priority and wider reaching”
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Relic
A level 8 run will yield you 38 relics (+20 for daily bonus chest). 6 per each level and 20 for the Maw chest. Total for first run each day: 58 relics
A level 10 run will yield you 38 relics (+25 for daily bonus chest). 6 per each level and 20 for the Maw chest. Total for first run each day: 63 relics
A level 20 run will yield you 54 relics (+30 for daily bonus chest). 8 per each level and 30 for the Maw chest. Total for first run each day: 84 relics
I always hear P1 is the easiest/most popular. I prefer P3 and even P2 to P1. The switch part in P1 is harder to coordinate in a PUG while P2 and P3 are easy to coordinate with PUGs.
50 minute Arah P4 PUG run? Nice.
Took me and some really competent guildies nearly 8 hours one night. Simin can be a real pain sometimes.. the seemingly 50% bug (or alledged bug)
Yeah, you will get the error message about the server being full.
I gave up trying to do any of these events because you can’t get into the maps to do them. (I managed to get into the event twice after trying five times).
I once managed to get into an overflow where the event was happening, but was failing miserably. Yay, fun.
Happened to me as well last night. Used a portal device that dropped from event. Knocked down and nothing else happened.
Keep the lake.
I hate JPs, but I am not lobbying to get them removed. If you do not enjoy underwater combat, so be it.
There is a whole group of people in the game that does.
So much that could be changed on those BL map and they choose to remove the one last spot for any type of underwater combat in WvW?
What about those two useless upperhand corners?
They hate us Engies and would rather us just quit the game then fix anything related to our class.
Yeah, kinda. They just want us to keep using the Hobo-sacks. Maybe we’ll get Hobo-tron to join us Engineers.
Hobo-tron and the zephyr rucksack are an obvious troll move by them.
They hate us Engies and would rather us just quit the game then fix anything related to our class.
Someone at ANet said early on that clues were scattered throughout Tyria as to the recipe for legendaries.
Having played through the game for countless months now, I have yet to find any clue that would help me figure out the recipe for a legendary.
Has anyone found any of these ‘clues’. I’m just curious as to if they exist and what they are.
I don’t have the same issues as you with underwater combat. I love it and can move around pretty good.
That said, it appears the company has abandoned underwater combat in favor of JPs. They are even thinking about removing the big lake from the borderlands in WvW (The only real spot for underwater combat in WvW) to expand the maps.
When was the last update that included a new underwater breather? That’s right… never.
Personally, I know a lot of people think that having to carry a focus for speed stinks but the skills it brings in addition to the speed are very useful.
I love the area pull and the phastasm warden. I use both of those skills on quite a regular basis.
Clones + Stealth + Speed would be pretty insane combination.
Oh, and our guild is around 400 members but only about 60 are currently active every day.
That means about only 15% of our guild is active currently. A lot of the members may have moved on from the game by now. Hard to tell with the tools available to guilds.