Guild Wars 2

Covert spirit shards to gold and buy food with it. Simple:

https://gw2efficiency.com/currencies/spirit-shards

10000 wins in tPvP is by far the most time consuming achievement, you are looking at 5000 hours of pvp.
250000 kills in WvW is a tough follow up which will take 3000-4000 hours depending on how populated your tier is. And you need to play in zerg, roaming will take decades.

Giant Slayer only takes like 20 hours if you know the drill, its nothing.

Yes, it is bugged and probably nothing will get fixed in the forseeable future since Lawton is missing again

They probably get removed on tuesday

Biermeister.4678:

Milling Stones
Milling Basins
Blade Shards
Doubloons

Milling Stones already go into the storage

It does not matter if it takes 4,8,16 or 32 hours. It is still a fraction of the total effort required to make the Tyria legendaries.

yes the time it takes to get map completion is not worth mentioning if you include the time it takes to get all other ingredients. The average person probably needs 400 hours for a legendary, so it would be less than 5% of the total time required for a legendary. And doing one map completion gives you two gifts, so you spend even less time on map completion per legendary.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

OriOri.8724:

Sure…….. right after PvE players can get GoB through playing PvE.

I still cannot believe that so many WvW players were so kittening hyped and had so many “justice” kittens when PvE players were forced to go WvW to get their legendary, and then you turn around and try to weasel out of doing PvE. You can’t have it both ways. You need to play more than a single game mode to get a legendary, simple and clean cut. No debate on this topic.

Oh you mean how they didn’t have to WVW at all for GoB for years? And 5-8 hours of WvW does not equate to the amount of Time WvW players have to spend in Pve just to get the same items. So yes the justification against all the complaints Pve players started were fully justified.

A map completion speedrun is 16 hours, it is barely more than the 8 hours you need for the gift of battle

Glouryian.3765:

The thing is that it would not get easier with my suggestion, actually you would need to invest much more time than doing it in PvE. It just offers another option, nothing more.

You already have the option to buy the Tyria legendaries directly in the trading post. Map completions do not need options. It is crazy that people demand options for everything instead of playing it as designed.

This item should never come back. It was a reward for people who were there at the beginning

This would defeat the purpose of map completion. Hero points are only buyable with proof of heroics so WvW players can stay competive with their builds.

You would easily make 10 +new characters with full map completion until Anet implements this even if they would start working on it instantly

Waypoint should only be contested if a wall or gate drops below 95% but in return stay contested until the damage is repaired.

So with Lawton being on absence for an unknown time again, what will happen to the API in the forseeable future? The bank API is broken and stuff is not getting whitelisted anymore currently.
Since over 100k players are making use of the API, I think it should be one of Anets top priorities to keep everything working even if Lawton is missing (yet again).

Bellatrixa.3546:

Malediktus.3740:

Even if mystic coins would be 10g each it would be a fair price since they are only needed to get prestige items

Today I learned of a new prestigious item that I didn’t even know I had. Yeah, I can totally see how Mystic Coins are fine /s

Those recipes are luxury items. You can buy the ready made food items (or just personal food) on the trading post if you are too poor to afford the recipes.

Stiofan.6720:

Malediktus.3740:

You should temporarily ban all people who have this outfit. These people are crashing half our squad in WvW all the time. Literally unplayable.

Bit extreme don’t you think?

You want anet to ban players because they bought something from the gem store?

Malediktus.3740:

Currently there are people from WvW guilds who intentionally wear the outfit to crash opponents, should I report people who wear the oufit despite knowing it makes people crash?

How do you know they know their outfit is causing others to crash?

Reporting someone just for wearing an outfit is ‘report abuse’ It’s not their fault an outfit they paid for causes the game to crash for people using certain graphic settings.

If people from known WvW guilds wear the outfit for hours it is obvious that they do so to troll/grief people, dont you think?

AlphaWolf.2709:

To the people who are harassing Gaile about knowing of this issue a week ago, consider this. While Anet has chosen to look the other way with regards with dataminers, even the beloved That_Shaman, it still doesn’t change the fact that it’s against their EULA. At the end of the day, our game client is still their intellectual property and we are still bound by their EULA. They can place whatever they want in the .dat file – It being there doesn’t supersede their rules on datamining. So in short, get over it and be appreciative that Anet even allows dataminers to post things. In reality, they don’t have to.

I do not see anyone harassing Gaile, I only see people disagreeing with how it got handled simply because the bug got found thanks to data miners.
Preventing data mining is basically impossible unless Anet would use sophisticated encryption methods which would harm the performance of the game or always patch in everything last minute. If there would be an easy fix for data mining it would be widely in gaming industry used because about every online game I ever played got data miners.

escapegoat.2894:

Malediktus.3740:

Well it was pretty clear that the outfit was going to get released during the Halloween period and if the chat code is already crashing people it should be an alarm sign to not
release the outfit without additional testing.

I am sorry if we have to disagree here Gaile.

Chat codes are always a risk because even if they are data mined you can post them everywhere and crash other people even if they did not ask for the data mining. So all chat codes must be tested before enabling them to the public.

Eeeeeeeeexxxxxcept, as Gaile has already explained, they do not use data mined chat codes in their overall work procedures. So it’s not going to be on their radar as a potential problem, and you shouldn’t expect them to know of the problem.

Gaile’s completely right on how it would be a waste of ANet’s time and resources, or any company’s for that matter, to utilized data mined information.

Sadly if faulty chat codes exists some people will find it and use it to grief other people. I lost count how often I have been crashed by people posting faulty item codes over the last years.
It is not just data miners who get affected by overlooking it.

Currently there are people from WvW guilds who intentionally wear the outfit to crash opponents, should I report people who wear the oufit despite knowing it makes people crash?

Well it was pretty clear that the outfit was going to get released during the Halloween period and if the chat code is already crashing people it should be an alarm sign to not
release the outfit without additional testing.

I am sorry if we have to disagree here Gaile.

Chat codes are always a risk because even if they are data mined you can post them everywhere and crash other people even if they did not ask for the data mining. So all chat codes must be tested before enabling them to the public.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Take a break then if you can’t handle it. Suspending accounts because someone bought a gem store item would cause even more anger and rage than waiting for the fix. WvW will still be there when it’s fixed.

Also I have not had a problem since I set my animations to medium.

As I said why should I take a break if a tiny amount of players make the game unplayable? That is Anets job to remove those players even if they might not do it on purpose.

Besides the bug is known for a week (due to the chat codes) already, so Anet should feel ashamed that they released the outfit before fixing it.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Malediktus.3740:

You should temporarily ban all people who have this outfit. These people are crashing half our squad in WvW all the time. Literally unplayable.

Why would they suspend people for wearing an outfit they purchased from the gem store? Yeah that wouldn’t cause a flood of complaints…. That’s ridiculous. Just take a break until it’s fixed or also try to change the animation settings as mentioned above.

Because a tiny amount of players make the game literally unplayable for many. It gives Anet a lot worse image if they let everyone suffer instead of the few people who already bought the outfit.

You should temporarily ban all people who have this outfit. These people are crashing half our squad in WvW all the time. Literally unplayable.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

Malediktus.3740:

BlaqueFyre.5678:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

And for those players that own those skins? Should they be unable to use the skins on other characters?

All of the skins you listed are available; they periodically show up in the Gem Store.

Glorious Hero Armor begs to differ…….. and a few others

Isn’t glorious hero armor a hidden until unlocked skin?

I believe my UI shows it, I could be wrong though. Haven’t looked for it specifically in a while.

Triumphant Hero armor is visible for me (but this armor was never available so far)
Glorious Hero armor was never given out for a year or so, rarest items in the game

Sarrs.4831:

Would prefer for Mistforged and Triumphant Hero’s skins to be earnt in a similar way to Machined skins; owning the Hero’s/Triumphant skin unlocks a collection, you have to collect some dropped components and buy some other components.

Couldn’t be hard. Have one that you buy through Badges of Honor, one you buy through Proof of Heroics, one drop from player kills/obsidian sanctum end box, one drop from Lords.

Yes this is what I imagined with making it the WvW counterpart of ex machina collection.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

And for those players that own those skins? Should they be unable to use the skins on other characters?

All of the skins you listed are available; they periodically show up in the Gem Store.

Glorious Hero Armor begs to differ…….. and a few others

Isn’t glorious hero armor a hidden until unlocked skin?

Even if mystic coins would be 10g each it would be a fair price since they are only needed to get prestige items

Sounds like a fair price for t6 materials, I wish orichalcum and gossamer would be more expensive, too

People would just farm edge of the mists instead of normal WvW if it would be 500 WvW levels each. You can make 1000 levels per month there, so playing real WvW would punish you.

I think they should make it the the WvW equivalent of the ex machina collection, you can still bind it to WvW levels (say 2k or 3k) that you need to buy a specific item from a vendor..

Rauderi.8706:

Malediktus.3740:

Makes me wonder how people have 15k from dailies and only 5k from actually achieving something in this game. Daily AP should be removed entirely.

Nah. If it can’t be attained anymore, like all those previous festivals, they should be deleted and removed from AP totals.

Daily AP is the real show of dedication to the game.

they are achievement points not dedication points or “login and play for 5-10min per day points”

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Not on my List
These are things that I think ought to be in the wallet or otherwise handled differently by the game. I don’t want them to be in the Vault at all, material storage or bank.

Ideally, most of these could be turned into a consumable than when used deposited into wallet, like bags of airship parts do now.

• Chak Eggs & Reclaimed Plates — these are currency and have no need to be ‘stored’
• +X AR (other than +1, these are all refined, although I would love it if there was room for all)
• Legendary Insights — this is a currency, isn’kitten

Those items will be used for mystic forge recipes when legendary armor becomes craftable, so they arent currencies

SkyRif.4689:

This item is part of a collection That should be material storage deployable no?

Also unlimeted slots? PLEASE!!!

No need, collection items can be sold to vendor or deleted

Essence of Time
Chak Eggs
Reclaimed Metal plate
Dubloons
Amalgamated Gemstones
Crests
Map completions (both HoT and Tyria)
Legendary gifts (thinking of gift of magic, gift of might and the HoT counterparts specifically)

I hope it will be a collection to get the mistforged skins. I salvaged all the hero and triumphant skins after unlocking them. Would be annoying to have to do all 19+18=37 tracks again if they just reintroduce a way to earn gift of heroes again.

CornishRose.2815:

Sorry, but is it the 24th or 25th? as you have made another post here saying its the 24th https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-Maintenance-October-24-2016

It is on both days

maxwelgm.4315:

Is that the most expensive effect on the game right now? seems like it is. How rare is it anyway? Mystic opened 100k bags and got none, a dude in LA the other day was pinging 5 of it after what he claimed to be 3500 bags.

Chak Egg Sack is the most expensive, usually going for 10k gold or higher (greymarket trades)

Yes, this bug is really annoying and it is a disgrace that it is still not fixed 1 year after HoT release.

The fake queue happens if there are afk people in queue who do not accept the queue. They keep getting requeued even if the map is no longer full.

All that would achieve is T1 servers dropping out of T1 and T2 servers going T1. Would just make the revolving door effect even worse.

Maybe it could be a mystic forge recipe? Would explain it better than your theory

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Malediktus.3740:

I am glad that it didnt come back, being exclusive to being there at Halloween 2012 is what makes it special.

No offense but that’s incredibly selfish.

What is wrong with being selfish? Not everyone should be able to get everything

It is hard to skillgate something if there is no content which requires skill and cannot be cheesed. Even raids can easily be cheesed by buying raid kills or getting carried by friends.

That is why rewards in MMOs are usually gated behind effort and time and not skill.
And Anet will never add content that requires true skill if the outcry about the raids (which got lower difficulty than dungeons in Wildstar) is big already.

Randulf.7614:

Exclusivity should be more associated with skill or time investment than being present for a 1 week event 4 years ago, which not everyone was able to attend imo. GW2 is not the sort of game that should be bogged down on exclusivity based on being there at the right time. It’s one of the reasons LS1 and the Karka Event were unpopular.

Unpopular? I still think LS1 was the best LS so far. I dont like the instanced living story instances at all.

There are barely any exclusive items left if you think about it. A lot of them have been released. There are over 4000 skins you can unlock and I would be hard pressed to find 50 skins that you can no longer aquire.

Well they should, I am quite sure the EU megaserver has more players than the NA megaserver (based on the achievement leaderboards, you need much less to become top 1000 in NA than EU which implies lower population)

I am starting to think people are trolling with these kind of reports in hopes for Anet to uncap it again as the easiest solution.

I am glad that it didnt come back, being exclusive to being there at Halloween 2012 is what makes it special.

It would only work if they nerf lords back to the old system.
SMC lord used to have around 230k health and no scaling.

Do you really need to do this during EU primetime? I am sure you could do it 4-5 hours earlier or later or have different maintenance times for NA and EU.

Do you really need to do this during EU primetime? I am sure you could do it 4-5 hours earlier or later or have different maintenance times for NA and EU.

badge of tributes are the best way to convert badges to gold

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Malediktus.3740:

So why should Anet provide permanent ones if they will make more money in the long run with consumable ones?

Technically it could bring other people to spend money on those things, increasing their profit while losing profit from him.
I heavily doubt this will ever happen though because rip food otherwise.

The people who dont buy the current primers will also not buy permanent primers for hundreds of dollars each. Maybe they could be a super rare drop from black lion chests (even more rare than the permanent contracts)

Cecilia.5179:

What about a primer that costs 20-50s each time you use it? It would be amazing for expensive food but it would keep food from dropping below a certain price point. Why should food be expensive anyways? It’s kinda ptw when the food is insane like mussels gnashblade

1) food are part of the economy and already very low profit to craft at the moment, so if anything Anet should find way to increase profits from cooking
2) 1g for food per 30min is not expensive nowadays if you make 10g+ per hour

Using the best foods should have exponentially higher costs. Just like in real life where eating in a michelin star restaurant can easily cost a thousand dollars for a dinner.