Don’t bother with the fire elemental. Just do the temples, fire shaman, and golem mark 2. Make sure you use your guests, combined with gw2state or something. It’s really, really easy to get the ore in a very short amount of time. If you don’t want to guest, it may take you a bit longer. Playing during prime times helps, obviously. The golem is easily the best meta event, because its spawn timer is really short and it gives 15-25 ore.
If you actually make an effort, your ore per hour will easily exceed your potential shards per hour, unless you sit and farm SE P1 or something.
This. Stick with the temples and golem/fire shaman. And guest over to populated servers to do them if you need.
And if you are not aware, you can do temples multiple times on multiple toons and get the 30 dragonite ore on each toon. Still only 1 daily chest though.
I’ve been doing way more farming and temples lately, so I am in desperate need of the emphyreal fragments at the moment. That is all I am lacking for 2 more ascended weapons. I just hit the temples as I do my daily ori/ancient wood runs.
But I understand, if you never stick your head out of a dungeon then the dragonite ore will be hard to come by.
To be fair, ‘we are investigating this’ doesn’t mean this is intended or not. Shouldn’t take over a month to confirm whether or not this is intended or a bug.
I can understand not mentioning any time frame on a fix if this is a bug. But a confirmation?
Between this and “Boss Month” I’ve actually been able to just play the game and not all the happy, buggy LS horsekitten they keep on churning out. I’m happy we get some content that only some like.
I agree. I’ve been able to refocus my attention to other parts of the game. Like grinding ori/ancient wood endlessly for ascended weapons. Lol
But I too am looking forward to the Halloween patch. One of the very few patches over the last year that I still hold in high regards.
The whole reason zerker will always be better than a condition build.
Another new backpiece to enjoy from the TA release.
Oh joy.
I am curious if I am alone in really loathing jumping puzzles. I really hate it. For me it is just pure frustration. Not only do I find it much harder, I do not find it interesting at all.
I really hope they would do something about this is because I really avoid it unless I cannot, which is complete the map.
I fixed that for you.
I love underwater combat and wish they would do more for it instead of taking it out of the game slowly as they have been doing.
I personally dislike Jumping Puzzles, as well as many many others, but you don’t see constant petitions from us to remove them from the game.
Certain aspects of the game are loved by some, hated by others.
Wow… only months ago everyone was onboard the MF sucks and doesn’t work train and was convinced that MF had to go.
Now that the vocal minority has screwed over the farmers out there, everyone is so happy to find out that MF actually does work.
I’ve never gotten anything ‘cool’ out of a BLC.
I’ve never gotten anything ‘cool’ out of a BLC.
If guesting is restricted people will clear those events on their home server more often instead of taking the easy solo way of guesting – the bigger events that are meant for servers/guilds to coordinate are being undermined by guesting.
I’d like something to be done to limit guesting without stopping friends from playing together.
Restricting guesting will not equate to more people clearing those events on their home server.
Before the guesting days, these events were barren on low population servers. There is no reason to believe they will miraculously become populated now if guesting is removed/restricted.
I’ve got a sigil of force stuck in my old invader’s sword that I would love to throw into my new Flamebringer.
Why can’t we even salvage these things?
If you are about to hit 300% MF, congratulations.
Now, if your problem is that you are facing either deleting escences of luck or quit flipping stuff on the TP then I have no type of worries for you. Neither one of those is a real ‘problem’.
Just delete them and move on with your life, happy that you have achieved 300% long before most will even have hit 200%.
Just use an artifcer to combine escences of luck all the way up to exotic level and save a few stacks of those if you want to keep for later.
Because normal players like getting their rears handed to them so badly that they would keep coming back and doing the event for weeks on end.
Only hardcore players would keep coming back for weeks until they beat this event. A casual or normal player would quit coming after being humiliated so badly the first couple of times.
Chantry of Secrets is always worth a second try.
It solves SOOOOO many problems for people. Definately worth the time to try.
Did you get 100% map completion or 100% map explorer achievement? These are two very different things in case you did not know.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Bluestone/Explorer
Use that wiki entry for the explorer achievements.
It really ‘seems’ to me that the rate of ecto salvage has dropped. After salvaging all my rares still since the MF changes, the amount of globs I get is significantly less than it used to be.
Of course, I may just be on another bad RNG streak. It just appears that the salvage rates of globs has not been that great as of late for me.
It is very possible that that salvage rate was lowered some. They would never tell us this info if they did.
Wasn’t this their reason for doing away with MF? So you didn’t have to choose between something that would help you in one part of the game versus something that would be more efficient for a group?
Anyone running those +5 versatile infusions in anything other than a fractal are being less than efficient.
Quit being leeches and get those expensive +5 precision infusions!
Thought they fixed this with the last patch.
•Transmuted items now require a salvage confirmation if either source item would have required it.
Maybe they didn’t fix it for just skins?
Try going to the Chantry of Secrets.
If the ‘instance’ owner leaves the whole party is kicked. It has been this way since launch. And still no fix.
It is way past time for a fix. The new LFG tool has just made the problem worse, really.
Nothing like toughening it out with a bunch of low level kitten in CM and showing them the ropes only to have the instance owner leave right at the last boss an hour later.
And starting the instance yourself will solve the problem, for you. But if everyone did this then there would be no parties. The issue needs to be fixed.
Just another way that my time is WASTED playing this game.
Way too many people speculating on the clothes right now. There is going to be way too big of an influx when people try to unload these things. It won’t be as big of a cash cow as the ore/wood was when ascended weapons hit.
How about, I log in, click ‘collect ore’ button, wait about 30 seconds, ore is deposited into inventory, and the ‘collect ore’ button now goes on a 24 hour cool-down like glob refinement.
Only kidding, though honestly I find myself only having time to harvest ori/ancient wood daily and not do anything else. It takes me about 20-30 minutes per toon (depending on ore/wood locations) to do all four maps and then I do that on 3 toons. About an hour and a half later and that is all I have had time to do. I do occasionally get to hit up the karka queen or a temple here and there if I am lucky enough to bump into those on the way. But sadly for me, no time to do anything else.
Still need to get back to grinding dungeons for the emphyreal fragments.
To give the generic anet response, the rule is 1 key 1 function. So you want to hit 1 key to type out “stack up” which is technically 1 key 8 functions. So based off there policy no its not allowed. BUT is it something they will punish you over, only anet knows. I know plenty of people that use macros and never got banned, I also know people that use macros and got banned. Its really hard to say what they will do. Sorry this won’t really help but at least its a idea.
I’ll play devil’s advocate and say that it should be allowed.
Considering that every computer right now is built with a copy/paste function, and that it’s very easy to repeat any phrase with a simple three key stroke in “CTRL+V, Enter”
So if Anet doesn’t mind us relaying chat commands through copy and paste (which reduces the # of keystrokes), then I don’t see why they won’t mind us relaying chat commands through 1 keystroke.
Your argument makes perfect sense, but condensing 3 key strokes down to 1 key stroke is obviously against their stance on macros. Heck, anything other than remapping keys is.
In the spirit of the law?
You don’t think pressing one key and getting a whole phrase typed out for you is any easier or quicker than having to type the whole thing out? Doesn’t that give one player a distinct advantage over the player that has to type the whole phrase out? Isn’t that what the spirit of the law is really aiming for, not giving one player a distinct advantage over another?
“Guild Wars 2 players are permitted to use macros as long as the macros are programmed with a 1 key for 1 function protocol.
1.This means that if you program a macro, it must require one keystroke per action. You may not program a single key to perform multiple functions.
2.For example, if you Press A and it results in the casting of a single skill, you’re ok. If you Press A and it casts multiple spells, you’re not ok.
3.You cannot program a macro to perform the same or multiple actions on more than one account at a time.
4.You cannot program an “auto-clicker” macro that, for instance, opens chests while you play elsewhere."
I doubt they come along and clarify it any more than that. They have shown reluctance to do so. According to the ‘letter of the law’ it isn’t allowed either. But then again, NO real macros are allowed. Only key remapping according to their interpretation.
You only need artificer to 500 to be able to craft an ascended focus.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zojja%27s_Artifact
I’ve gotten weaponsmith to 500 and crafted a shield and will soon craft an axe and a sword.
I’ve gotten huntsman to 500 and crafted a longbow.
I’m at 465 with artificer and will eventually craft a focus and staff.
Getting the craft to 500 is the real cost. Once there, it is really only ~20-30 gold in materials for the weapon I believe.
I’ve found there is less and less to do in this game that doesn’t require a huge time investment. No room for casual play.
See below
It’s about choice. There are other content in the game that people will limited time can do. World Bosses like the Shadow Behemoth is still easy, and can be killed in 5~ minutes. CoF path 1 is still one of the quickest dungeons, so that’s also an option.
If this new dungeon path ‘revamp’ and the Tequatl ‘revamp’ are any indication of what the future might hold when they finally get around to revamping the rest of the dungeon paths and the rest of the world bosses, then there is plenty of room for concern from ‘casual players’ who don’t have the time to invest.
That said, they should have left F/U in the game and added this new, longer path.
Most all of the new content lately has been content that is designed to eat more of your time or content designed for big zergs. Lots of people were left behind with ascended crafting because they didn’t jump on the invasion and champ farms and make 100s of gold.
Legendary focus will cost a LOT more.
Once you level up artificer (which will costs anywhere between 100-200 gold for 400-500), it will only cost ~20-30 gold to make the focus.
I’m going to craft one eventually and transmute my Anomaly over top of it.
40 minutes?? Pfft… people claim to be able to do Arah path 4 in about 40-45 minutes. But that doesn’t mean the majority of people can do it that fast.
Even so, 40 minutes is a long stretch compared to just about every other dungeon path out there.
At least NOW I know how long the path is and I know to avoid it when I don’t have an hour or two to spare. Which is just about every time I log in.
Everything they put out lately seems to be made to take up way too much of our time. Even increasing the HPs on the world bosses made those encounters needlessly longer, not harder, than they need to be.
I’ve found there is less and less to do in this game that doesn’t require a huge time investment. No room for casual play.
You CAN infuse it, but the skin would be lost.
Always infuse it before you skin it if at all possible.
Can’t salvage my invader’s sword or focus for the sigils. Just made Firebringer and would like to put my sigil of force in it.
Can’t even mystic forge them either.
Is my sigil now just lost? Is this intended?
Yeah, gw2nodes.com
It helps a lot. I usually guest to a higher populated server to do my ori/ancient wood runs because no one else likes to update the maps for FC.
The level 80 zerg train running through Queensdale needs to remember they are in a starter zone with new players around and quit harassing others so much. The trash talk and name calling to other players that ‘inteferes’ with their champ train is disheartening.
Be polite and courteous to others, especially in a starter zone.
Frostgorge is a much better champ farm and nothing but level 80s there.
They sure missed the boat on this one.
An existing path that was pretty decent, that only needed the end boss encounter fixed is removed. What a waste.
I’ve noticed the settler’s inscriptions don’t seem to drop any more. I’ve gotten 6 of the recipes lately however.
Farm the cash from your favorite spot or farm COE for cores/lodestones. Those are your best two options.
All three paths of COE are easy, and will yield you 1.26 gold + sellables + possible cores/lodestone for each path.
You can try to file a support tickets.
Others in the same boat as you have been able to get a refund/replacement ring through customer support.
Your results may vary.
Both guilds should have jumped on him and downed him. Then stood there and pointed and laughed.
You can usually trigger this WP by swimming real close to it from the outside of the lab.
The entrance to the lab is on the east part of the island, underwater. A long tunnel.
ONLY areas (in PvE) to have ori/ancient wood are Frostgorge Sound, Southsun Cove, Malchor’s Leap, and Cursed Shore.
I use gw2nodes.com to help with their locations.
Frostgorge and Southsun usually have 2 each of the ori/ancient nodes while Malchor’s and Cursed Shores usually have 4/5 each of each node.
And these nodes are character bound. You can do multiple runs per day with different toons. I currently do full runs with 3 toons. Nets me somewhere ~125 each ori/ancient wood a day in about an hour and a half.
My experiences with the new lfg tool hasn’t been positive, some of it has been similar to OP. if you don’t know the dungeon don’t act like you do and refuse to listen.
I had a CoFp2 run the other day full of 3 thieves and 2 warriors. Couldn’t get past the defend the dude while he plants explosives part because everyone but me kept wiping. The part isn’t hard at all. Eventually they blamed the classes and asked me to switch from my thief to my ranger. Out of everybody in the group the one who actually knew how to play his class needed to switch and not one of the people failing?
I just said GL and left. That’s not even nothing compared to my other runs using that tool.
Had a similar experience with a LFG PUG last night running COF P2.
2 guys were constantly getting downed, 1 guy wanted to stand on a ledge and watch the rest of us while he ‘called out the target’ even though he never did, and I was always watching the fourth guy running out of the room instead of just kiting the mobs.
Had a SE P1 LFG PUG run with a guardian that didn’t even bother to have any reflects equipped.
I’ve had MUCH better luck historically with gw2lfg.com than I have with the LFG tool.
It’s slightly better than their old system. One skin with one set color for all stat combinations. No choice in the matter at all.
Items received from the MF are a completely new item. Any skins you have applied to a component of a recipe (like the quiver) will be lost when upgrading via the MF.
You can probably use a transmutation splitter available through the gem store to split the item to its original components, then infuse it when you want. Then reapply the skin.
File a support ticket. Customer support has helped players in the same situation as you in the past.
That is your best and only option.
This guy was recently successful:
From where you were at in the water, you should have been able to use the shipwreck to get up to the top of the island and the WP.
Also, just directly North and a little West of your character marker on that map you can climb/jump up the side of terrain there pretty easily. That used to be my go to spot before they added that bridge over head. Pretty much directly below the ‘S’ in ‘Scoured Plains’.
You can start at Pearl Island WP and travel west all the way to it. The journey can be dangerous. After the second bridge, there is usually an encampment that is contested and overrun with crazed karka. Don’t enter the camp. Just over the bridge, jump to the left and climb up and to the left of the camp. You can circle around the camp a little to get out in front of it without having to deal with the crazed karka. It is still a dangerous journey from here to get to the scoured plains, but it is doable.
“Because we wanted all stat combos in the game to be represented in Ascended Weapons, we have added new Exotic Inscriptions to the salvage tables on all non-crafted Exotic weapons and to drops where applicable.”
This WAS in the patch notes, but has mysteriously disappeared. I’m curious as to why now.
But judging from that statement, it is uncertain whether or not a CRAFTED dire weapon will have a chance to drop an inscription when salvaged.
I can not confirm or deny whether they are salvageable or not from crafted weapons.
I can confirm that the dragonite is indeed per character.
You can do the Temple of Dwayna on three level 80 toons and get 90 dragonite ore for the day.
I’m swimming in dragonite because of this fact.
The empyreal fragments are slower to accumulate for me because the best source of those is dungeons (20 per run).
Customer support does sometimes help!!
I suggest spreading this information about unique rings around to anyone who will listen. I always do that in game and you would be suprised how many still do not understand what ‘unique’ means.
ANet really should have done a better job getting the point of ‘unique’ across before the ascended level where it is quite costly. My understanding is, if you come from other MMOs you will most likely understand the concept of an unique item. If you haven’t, the problem identified above is likely to occur.
Another option is to take one of the siege, start to place it, drop the bundle, then pick it back up.
That should fix it. The issue you are experiencing are your old stacks that are still account bound. They have not been ‘converted’ fully to non-account bound yet. Doing the above should fix the issue.
You SHOULD get a chance at a dire inscription if you set the stats to that.