Guild Wars 2

Green weapons = Gold items. Greens were PURELY a CONVENIENCE tier of items. Back then, getting a gold weapon with a max inherent mod and then purchasing the 2 necessary upgrades for it would cost you a fortune. Green weapons did not have higher stats. The only difference between greens and golds is that greens came with all three upgrades with the max stats already in place. They existed for the convenience they offered. They were never more powerful than gold items.

Ascended gear>exotics. Good luck explaining to us how this is similar to what happened in gw1.

Naoko.7096:

MMO needs progression. If not, it’ll die as a limited game with no growth.

GW1 had ZERO gear progression and it’s still going on after 7 years. Your argument is invalid.

If gear progression is the only thing anet can do to keep people playing, then this game deserves to die.

Fallen Angel.5092:

This all depends on what you’re interpreting “deeper into the dungeon” as. For all you or I know it could be your 100th run through before Agony is too much to not have Infusion to defend again. This goes for any other dungeons they have planned using this Agony effect. Only Anet is in the know for how long you will be able to withstand Agony before you need infusion. So my point is not invalid based on my interpretation of the information they have posted, nor is his in a sense. My point was there is already player gear gating in place and of course the new dungeon will be no exception. However, to believe one entire run of the 9 wings of the new dungeon, which are randomized mind you, will be unbeatable without this new gear that NO ONE CURRENTLY HAS is pretty foolish.

“Well guys, we’re going to have to reset and hope we get the 4/5/6 wing set instead of the 1/2/3 wing set because 1/2/3 is too much Agony damage.” This scenario is what I will never see happening for at least one entire clear through Fractals of the Mists. After that, so long as item rewards aren’t better (quantity != better), the extra difficulties are artificial progression for kitten flexing. Nothing more. If Anet applies this to every dungeon they create later on, there is nothing wrong. It’s when they make your T14 WoW raid gear required for Normal Stratholme a problem.

The increasing difficulty comes in the form or more monsters, higher monster hp and bigger damage from monsters. This coupled with the agony condition is what they meant when they say it gets increasingly difficult. I suggest you re-read all the information that is present. There is more info than the blog post suggests.

Fallen Angel.5092:

Talloc.6835:

LF2M Fractal, link all Ascension gear or NO INVITE

LF2M AC, link all Exotic gear or NO INVITE.

See what I did there?

So long as ArenaNet doesn’t make the dungeons impossible to do without Ascended gear, but can be done in your Greens and Blues, there is no problem.

To be speculative of the blog post, sine people are choosing to take the OMG TREADMILL path, I’m going to speculate on the Deeper through the Fractals path. What I read into this was its infinitely scaling difficulty, not the first “tier” of the dungeon. I could be wrong, but the lot whining and wailing about a gear treadmill (that already exists in the form of fine, masterwork, rare, and exotic) could be wrong as well.

The doom and gloomers in this thread are not the majority, this design choice clearly makes it out you’re not. I doubt your leaving this game will have a dramatic effect on my, or anyone who decides to stay, gameplay experience.

Umm, exotic gear isn’t REQUIRED for the current dungeon. You can complete them easily with rares and even masterwork armor. I know I have.
Any new content that is added in the future is going to REQUIRE ascended armor since it can’t be completed without the infusion buffs. His point stands and yours is invalid.

After experiencing the extent of the damage Linsey did to gw1, I’m not surprised by these changes. Good to know to that after 7 years of players yelling at Anet that power creep is BAD, it still hasn’t sunken into their skulls.

I look forward to seeing many “LF more, must have ascended gear” party searches.
Great job making legendary weapons more powerful than normal exotics too, I guess whoever grinds more, wins. It’s pretty clear I’m not playing the same game I bought anymore.

Thanks again, Linsey. I knew that this could only come from you.

You’re gonna need several conditions to cover that immobalize, otherwise it’s useless. Just Moa the ele, game over right away.

I seriously hope they add something similar to gvg back in gw2. At the moment, spvp is proving to be an extremely poor choice as a serious pvp format and is rapidly losing its playerbase. The game was not finished when it was released and the pvp is missing so many crucial components that it’s almost too late now.

Robotsonik.4935:

The name is not a reference towards any game mechanic, but instead a reference to the Guild Wars that rocked the world of Tyria long ago and are a part of its history.

In light of the fact that Anet has made it clear it wants to encourage a community that doesn’t breed animosity through conflict (within servers), I can’t see them inplementing actual G vs G. That’s what sPvP and WvW is for

GvG was the biggest selling point of gw1. The game is named after gvg. The lore was made to give gvg some context in pve. If you play through the original gw1 campaign, the only reference you get to this lore is through a vague comment by an npc. Majority of players will never heart about this historical event unless they specifically go out to find it.

Undermine.1678:

@wink

Not once did I say daphoenix is the one hacking. However, it is not out of the possibility of reason that he used additional tools to execute combinations. It is hard to tell though with his modification to playback timer on his videos.

But I have put together the build and armor template he suggests and set up a situation where I have protection and the other boons while fighting a mesmer’s berserker, and the damage I take is more significant that earlier accounted record of the 7 boon hacker with 10 stacks of regen.

In no video or any playing of my own have I been able to replicate having 10 stacks of regen. I know of only 1 way to achieve this, and that is through the bot program I had found.

No where had I spoke out about individual players or given names or was arrogant to say all elementalist… I was speaking of 1 player that several witnessed that belonged to a specific guild. THAT person was hacking.

If he was not, prove it why showing a video with steps to achieve 10 stacks of regen that never time out.

Because I am not disputing the ability to get 7+ stacks of might or maintaining up to 4 boons at any given time and having +/-2 additional boons apply and fall off… I am disputing the possibility of getting 10 stacks of regen. Having 2 stacks is possible and I can believe, but not 10 solo.

I thought regen can only stack in duration???

Oh, didn’t know that they shared the same leadership. I’ve only seen those two guilds with the [JPN] tag.

Maniac.5163:

Warscream.6817:

about the new kitten guild joining the server.
It was a miss comunication on my part, the new kitten guild that joined is (jpn) not (pro)

And keep up the good fight FA! we are rocking it this week! also good fight fight Henge tonight at garrison and please remove that treb in your spawn its pretty cheap play

[JPN] – I have seen this guild bringing a small team to WvW longer than a month back.. they have been registered since 23rd of Sept.

http://www.gw2guilds.org/guilds/us/fort-aspenwood

There are two guilds with the [JPN] tag. Have they both been here for a while?

2.5 months since release and the gw2 competitive scene is smaller than gw1’s competitive scene 2.5 months after it was released. The difference between then and now? James Phinney left Anet…..

No one complains about the monsters and traps in the pve jumping puzzles, so why complain about this.

You’ll be amazed what hightened morale can do. Look at the score! It’s Oceanic time too holy crap!

Cybertx.6714:

How would a EU guild help with the overnight issue, Prime time EU is early afternoon NA.

From the looks of it, a 70+ man Japanese guild joined FA recently aswell. Lovely to have them onboard and let’s get some more peeps to support them!

Glad to have you guys here [Asg]

Since when are jumping puzzles pve? Last I checked, they are puzzles and nothing more. You find them in pve and in pvp. In pve, you got monsters to fight. In pvp, you got players to fight. Seriously….

Just found a bunch of bots from Yak’s Bend in the water at FA BL. Some of them were part of the guild Elite[ELT], Cupcakes And Butterflies[cute] and Awesome Squad[AS]. If anyone from these guilds would like to know who these guys are to deal with them, I can send you the names. Wouldn’t want these kinds of people in your guild!

Don’t listen to the FAers that are whining in this thread. They represent themselves yet they are giving the server a bad name by whining over something no one can control. While these guys spend their time complaining on the forums, the rest of us are ingame trying to make sure Yak’s Bend doesn’t get bored.

@RedDeath: It can’t be a lottery item, there would be tons of them by now. It is either a world drop like the Final Rest or it has a recipe that only 1 person knows of.

Doesn’t it share the same skin as the Lidless Eye? That one has a known recipe.

Flipping isn’t market manipulation lol. Buy low, sell high has been around since god knows when.

I disagree. The lodestone situation is not perfectly fine.

All servers are High at the moment. BG, SoS, SBI and TC are almost always full. Don’t let Sandy deceive you!

Narkosys.5173:

Actually the way I see it most people who have one are exploiters

Almost everyone who exploited were banned so if those with legendaries are still around, clearly they did not exploit. They got in early before Anet changed things up. That’s not exploiting; that’s being smart and dedicated.

Graves.2530:

Just made “Unspoken Curse” lastnight. Will be updating the wiki sooner then later. No effects =( Not even glowing eyes!!! Total let down.

How dare you speak about the Flamberge like that! :P
It’s a gw1 skin so it’s automatically better than a legendary and having one demands far more respect and envy. You should be proud!

Candy corn price will go up after the event but not by much since demand will also be dropping significantly. Pretty much every other Halloween item is going to be in the same boat.

Veldan.4637:

I guess you never played Jade Quarry….

You guessed wrong. Notice that his question was regarding pve, not pvp. Context is important dude.

roqoco.4053:

The 500% magic find is an unsubstantiated rumour and the author of that article doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence: you can go over to reddit, there’s a long thread about his article there.

So before QQ it’s a good idea to know whether it’s true or not. Of course many think that magic find (at any %!) is a poor mechanism that encourages bots, other exploits and intensive farming oriented playstyle; that has been discussed, in some detail, on this forum here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Why-Magic-Find-is-a-Poor-Mechanism/first.

You’re right, 500% isn’t right at all. It’s actually 600%
This can all be verified easily by searching google. It is very real.
Just because magic find sucks doesn’t change the fact that it exists and this hack will give an unfair advantage over normal play. Not to mention that this hack comes with various other forms of cheating…. fly hack, speed hack and teleport hack to name a few…

Elona is still around. It’s cut off aswell.

Sanarian.9614:

I’m actually somewhat curious as to how GW1 made it into that list. I don’t know if there’s actually a way to tell if botting is an issue in that game, right? Anywhere that it was possible to kill a monster was always instanced to your party. o.O’

Answer to your question: Outposts/Towns
You had to go through them to access any of the instanced areas and bots had to come back to the outposts to sell off their junk and store stuff in the xunlai chest.

zerospin

Is there no code on the server to check incoming packet data for invalid values?

Obviously not. This situation came up a few months ago in gw1 where people manipulated npc dialogue boxes so that npcs would give them pretty much anything they asked for instead of what it was actually supposed to give (a storybook). Anet was able to track them down and ban a number of them so they should definitely be able to deal with these types of hacks. Strange that they didn’t implement a system within gw2 to verify packet data after it happened in gw1.

Let’s see some sources before we continue.

Pretty sure it is a light source. Even normal sword swings are a light source sometimes.

On another note, Unspoken Curse aka Flamberge has been found!
Scroll + 50 Coins + 100 Orichalcum Sword Blades + 50 Destroyer Lodestones

You do realize that those three weapons are here to stay right? You can take all the time you need to craft them, they’re not going anywhere. All you need to do during this event is gather the halloween specific materials to craft the recipes that are needed to make those weapons. You don’t even actually have to make the recipes yet, just gather the halloween materials you will need. Or buy them (which you will also be able to do after the event, but at an ever increasing price of course).

There is no time restriction for any of this. You can get them after halloween.

I doubt putting more doors in higher level zones would help unless there were bigger/better rewards. Majority of people will always take the easiest route.

ChairGraveyard.2967:

It was an obvious exploit. It’s against the TOS to exploit. It’s cheating. There’s no ambiguity there. I’m sure we can make up all sorts of nonsensical hypothetical situations where it’s not obvious, but that isn’t reality and doesn’t matter.

So someone found an incredible way to make money in this game and it’s labelled as an exploit? Please tell me, where did Anet ever say that you couldn’t get a precursor with lvl 65 rares? They only told us that AFTER it happened that it wasn’t intended. So when someone put in 4 godskulls and got a precursor, how was he supposed to know that it wasn’t intended? After all, every aspect of legendary creation had to be DISCOVERED by the players. If people discovered that godskulls could make precursors, how would they have known that it wasn’t an intended feature and it was bugged?

The profits that were made with the godskull weapons are COMPLETELY separate from the fact that precursors could be made with them. The price of everything that can be put on the TP is determined by the players. If the cost to produce a godskull was 10 times higher or if precursors were selling for much lower, do you think anyone would be calling this an exploit?

Infact, if the above scenario was the case, this thread would never have existed.

My question to you: How was this exploit “obvious”?

So above recipe confirmed as Infinite Light? Cool! Can be made for 300-350g easily.
556g on the TP….. biggest number I’ve ever seen on there haha

Now the hunt for Unspoken Curse begins……

Looks like someone has crafted the Infinite Light. 556g on the TP heh

Bije.3624

I may have missed this one somewhere, but if I did, I read right over the top of it without seeing it:

1 x Eldritch Scroll ; 100 x Mystic Coin ; 250 x Charged Lodestone ; 250 x Orichalcum Sword Blade

I haven’t the slightest idea what weapon this would make (though presumably a 1-hand sword).

This recipe was found a few days ago but still needs to be tested. My money is on it being the Infinite Light.

This should get stickied imo

Luck is luck. I’ve opened over 100 and the only good dye I got was the Redemption dye.

Pretty obvious pump and dump attempt.
Clicking faster doesn’t make you get more rare dyes. It’s the fact that you are opening more dyes that’s giving you more rares. Logic….

I wonder if inscriptions can be put into the mystic forge…

lejean.9615:

LostMK, I was sure that recipe is right. Now what’s the recipe for the Infinite Light? My mesmer will need that after I get Foefire’s Essence lol.

BTW, could anyone going for foefire weapons check, if gift of light can be added to scroll+orichalcum sword part? If no, then Infinite Light might use gift of might/metal or just be output from 4 weapons…

It doesn’t necessarily need to require a gift and we know it’s not something that comes out of using 4 random swords. There is already an untested sword recipe that I posted above which could be the Infinite Light but I’m not made of money so can’t test it. We also don’t know whether it is even craftable. It might be a drop only weapon though I highly doubt it.

Scroll + 100 Coins + 250 Orichalcum Sword Blade + 250 Charged Lodestones

Confirm it for us! Also, wasn’t that screenshot of an NPC during the personal story?

Try that recipe….. Infinite Light and Unspoken Curse are like the only two swords left without a known recipe. Unspoken Curse is the Flamberge which is a boss skin anyways.

Scroll + 100 Coins + 250 charged lodestones + 250 orichalcum sword blade
Someone rich try this!! Might be infinite light.

Coins + Charged Lodestones + Orichalcum Sword Blade seems to fit together. I don’t have enough skill points for a scroll but someone who has one could check and see how much of each we need. Wiki doesn’t have anything regarding this recipe. Might be the infinite light??

Yes there is. It’s called Honor of Humanity and since there are quite a lot of them for sale on the TP, it’s probably a drop or you get it from the mystic forge when you combine 4 rare/exotic swords.

The current system of getting the precursors is actually good. It maintains demand for rare (yellow) items and it’s keeping ecto prices from falling even more. Do we really want rare items to be as worthless as greens/blues and ectos as cheap as certain materials? The only problem with the current system is that the chance to get a precursor has been set way too low. The drop rate just needs to be increased significantly. That way, it’s not too much of a strain to obtain it via the mystic forge. The supply will increase and it will be a heck of a lot harder for groups/individuals to control the precursor market since an increased chance might motivate more players to use the mystic forge, spreading the supply across more players and continuing to maintain the value of rare items.

@Harbinger: How did you get it? Does it have a recipe?

I’m pretty sure it can be crafted in the Mystic Forge. Think about it, pretty much every other named exotic that we know of can come out of the mystic forge. Even if this staff does drop from monsters, you can’t rule out that it can also be crafted in the forge.

It’s 0.2% for rares.