Guild Wars 2

Wins should always give 2 pips and loosing loose 1 pip. That way you can progress even if the MMR algorithm forces you into a 50% winrate.

DoctorDing.5890:

Garambola.2461:

Zeefa.3915:

Is it okay to use a name like that though?

No. It is against the TOS. Just like Britney Spears.

I assumed it would be OK right now but not OK in the future if he caused a World War or something.

References to real life persons are not allowed in general, especially not if they are widely known persons.

The whole league system is a catastrophe. Guess I will stay in emerald league as someone who does not have a fixed PvP team (or guild).

I got an ascended shield skin (with healer stats) from Gorseval, but it looks pretty ugly…

Texas.9547:

http://www.twitch.tv/thelordhelseth/v/28009936?t=4h56m50s

Is there an upload of it on youtube? I dont want to install Adobe Flash

The chests should get gradually better at higher lvls. Why is a 30500 AP chest the same as a 500 AP chest? The more AP you have the harder it is to get more.

What was the unintended gameplay about his breakbar?

I think you might need to reach the highest league in 6 different seasons, but the wording is poor

Yes, it looks very out of place. Titles and mastery points do not get shown on the regular name plates, but pvp icon does?

GW2 and proper rewards never worked together so far. The raids proof it yet again.

Yes, I also hate these minigames/adventures (whatever you want to call them). They are frustrating and it feels like the engine was not made for this. If I would want to play stuff like these minigames I would play a proper game like that.

Maybe you should specify which data center you are playing on. It would help suggesting a guild

Good idea, adventures are disabled during the meta event, so HPs should, too.

I do not consider playing the trading post as playing GW2. Its the same than trading gems to gold imo.

The only thing wrong with the event is the low amount of rewards. The difficulty could be a bit higher if you ask me.

Gray.9041:

Bolt III: Zap

Capacative bottle fails to register in the collection, despite having unlocked every bottle-based item in the collection – all of which require the bottle to obtain.

is there some way to get this fixed? I’ve already crafted a second bottle hoping to fix it, and it’s pretty much the last thing I need in the collection.

I found a workaround: Right clicking it and adding it to the collection seems to work.
The bottle seems to be tradeable for some reason, but only account and character bound items add themselves to collections.

Gray.9041:

Bolt III: Zap

Capacative bottle fails to register in the collection, despite having unlocked every bottle-based item in the collection – all of which require the bottle to obtain.

is there some way to get this fixed? I’ve already crafted a second bottle hoping to fix it, and it’s pretty much the last thing I need in the collection.

I got the same issue. Pretty frustrating

biofrog.1568:

It’s not on the trading post when you de-select available items only.. does that mean it would be account bound on acquire?

I was guessing it might be more like Infinite Light, perhaps with 250x Orichalcum Staff heads instead? Or throwing in some sun beads?

Or even more likely, using the Exalted Staff Core from the Auric Staff recipe: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Exalted_Staff_Core
and/or the Oiled Ancient Staff Head/Shaft?

Items only appear on trading post as soon as it has been offered for sale at least once, so that is why you did not find it there.

Payne.1250:

Why a recipe ? Why this staff would be the only weapon in HoT that you can get from a recipe ?

This is probably a very rare drop from one of the 3 champions protecting the noxus pods at the end of DS meta event (maybe the emperor mushroom ?)

Since the expansion is out, how many times did the emperor mushroom got killed ?

Those 3 champions are literally never killed, everyone is ignoring them

Everything in HoT except maybe the Chak Gerent gets done regulary. You understimate the amount of people spread across different maps. The sheer amount of players dictates that it would have dropped at least once, even if it had a precursor like dropchance from a specific champion.

Wanze.8410:

Giving the origin of the name, a celestial inscription might be worth a shot

This sounds unlikely considering the staff has berserker stats and no other mystic forge exotic requires any inscription.

casantis.3106:

Maybe replace EB with a type of Desert map…. and get the old BL´s back.

EBG is the favorite WvW map of many people, myself included. I would hate if they ruined that one, too.

Am I the only one trying to find the recipe?

kolompi.1287:

Now if only achievement points would actually mean something, then it would matter how many they added in HoT.

They mean something to people interested in achievements

luzt.7692:

1 AP for getting Gold in hard adventures that took me days to master is really a slap in the face. Luckily you do get a mastery point.

Such a shame that there are more than enough mastery points in this game, so even the 1 mastery point for the hard adventures is a joke.

It is an exotic, so it is unlikely to be a gemstore skin. If it would be a drop chances are people would have found it now due to the sheer masses of players.

I have been starting to look for the recipe of the Azimuth staff ([&AgHsHgEA]).

These are my current ideas which I have been unable to test so far because I lack the Gift of Light.

X Mystic Coins
250 Auric Ingots
250 Ancient Staff Shafts
Gift of Light

X Mystic Coins
25 Exalted Staff Cores
250 Ancient Staff Shafts
Gift of Light

X Mystic Coins
25 Exalted Staff Cores
Eldritch Scroll / Bloodstone Shard
Gift of Light

If you got any additional ideas which are worth testing please post them here.

Burtnik.5218:

Malediktus.9250:

It is easy to organise, the events are simple. But there are too many people who do not listen to the commanders or do not wear DPS gear or use buff food.

You cant base open world event around 60+ players all listening and wearing zerk gear with food buff. It wont happen ever. Its not a freaking raid.

The thing is as soon as you balance it for the worst possible players it becomes a snooze fest for any half decent player like every event in core tyria.

It is easy to organise, the events are simple. But there are too many people who do not listen to the commanders or do not wear DPS gear or use buff food.

FearedbytheGods.8617:

Malediktus.9250:

It is called extreme mode for a reason.

Tbh that’s a poor analogy, when you compare this AP to the others from the HoT Story. The other AP’s have varying degrees of difficulty but nothing compared to this one, its completely disproportionate.

So many people who have completed the other AP’s will get stuck on this. It just doesn’t make sense to scale the level of skill/ability and coordination to pull this off.

Keep the hard scaling content to raids.

Honestly its a learn to play issue if the top players solo this extreme mode. Any half decent group should be able to do it once they figured out the mechanics and can play their class. I would not mind if they increased the AP reward to 20 though.

I am glad there is some challenging non raid content where you do not need 10+ players to do anything.

There are already tons of gold sink titles if you think about it. Think of the Emperor title or all the collections you can only reasonably complety if you buy things from the trading post.

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Took our 5 man group around 50 minutes. ~40 minutes for 1 boss. Canach’s break bar mechanic completely bugged out so we had to brute force it with direct/condition damage.

It does not bugged out. The incredible break bars seem to be part of the extreme mode. We used 3 tornado ele and a chronomancer for timewarps to break his breakbar.

Ayrilana.1396:

The hardest part it seems is beating Blighted Eir.

Eir was pretty easy with our 3 ele composition. In fact we did so much damage that Eir was completly busy rezzing Garm all the time that she never attacked us once after downing Garm once.

I like it, it gave making the old one a purpose.

It looks working as intended. It is called extreme mode for a reason.

I killed Dune Soarer two times in the last 4h of Dry Top.

I never got a reclaimed plate from a blue or green so far. Did not have any rare drop yet. By far the hardest part of getting the machined skins :/

Not sure, I am rather unpleased by a few things. The first week was nice, but the deeper you dig the more and more issues and bugs you find. And Anet is fixing them at a glacial speed.
Also we already had 4 black lion weapon sets and lots of other new gemshop stuff in ~1month since release, which puts a bitter taste im my mouth.

They do not seem to exist, probably got cut from the expansion or part of a future update.

I think the difficulty is good enough for a casual game like GW2. If the enrage timers would be more unforgiving, it would hurt class and build diversity.

Azure.8670:

Malediktus.9250:

Ascended weapons would be way too good. Also higher prices would make it even harder to finish the Chak collection (you cannot get 2h weapons from story).

you can get staff and GS from story

http://dulfy.net/2015/11/08/gw2-hot-weapons-armor-and-backpieces-guide/#Chak_Weapons
Are you sure? then dulfy would be wrong

No you cannot farm rings other than doing your fractal dailies, fractal reliquiary, luck in pvp and wvw chests.

Ascended weapons would be way too good. Also higher prices would make it even harder to finish the Chak collection (you cannot get 2h weapons from story).

The demand mostly comes from the recipe where you need 75 matrices and not for keys.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cube_of_Stabilized_Dark_Energy

You need a total of 8 of them for the backpack precursor, so 600 Matrices. The new legendaries also need 75 matrices. So I dont see the price of matrices going unless Anet buffs the chance for rings.

Salvaging an ascended rings gives 2-10 matrices, an infused one 4-20. So that is quite a lot of salvaged rings per legendary or the backpack even. I bet the upcoming pvp legendary backpack also will need these matrices.

Forging a gold fractal weapon also needs 50 matrices.

if you have a fractal reliquiar you can buy a random ring for 25 relics almost every day, sometimes it is even infused which give twice the amount of matrices when salvaged

This is why I liked the NPC talking in personal story more. You could easily press skip and not waste what feels like hours on repetive dialogues.

Kitiara.2706:

How are more people not raging about this? Has hardly anyone even hit 200 yet? We are still such a select few that our voices are small?

There was someone with 394 on reddit, but he used up over 5000 resonating shards alone. Which cost 1.28g each at the moment.

SoPP.7034:

Trying this…. again. Didn’t get it….. again.

Interestingly my friend DID get it, with the only difference being I got downed once (not dead). So have to try it….. again.

%$#@ you anet.

EDIT: FINALLY did it, didn’t get downed, that’s what held me up.

I wonder if this is a bug or if Anet forgot to update the achievement description.

Astralporing.1957:

Heh, i remember worrying about exactly that trend before in one of the radiant/hellfire armor threads and OP defending their price with the argument that a lot of APs will be coming with HoT. I’m definitely not glad that i ended up right on that one.

Yes, I remember that. Noone of my friends expected less than 3k new AP, some even 5-6k. But now we have ~1774 if you do everything even the legendary collections and other very grindy collections.
Maybe I should not have given Anet the benefit of the doubt when people datamined titles upto 60k.

The achievement “Fractal Frequenter” rewarded 70 AP before HoT and since HoT it only gives 15 AP.
Please revert it back to the old amount of AP since it took quite a lot of time to do 500 fractals and now I feel like 55 AP were stolen from me.

What is the point of stretching them out? If the AP gain continues like this, the game will shut down before the top 10 reaches 60k.

Looks like lvl 4 precursor collections only give 2 AP, so remove 3 AP from the total.

Blackari.2051:

maybe because you only need 250 fractals now

Mine still shows 500/500

Rednik.3809:

Malediktus.9250:

AP are part of achievements.

Unimportant part, especially for pvp.

View the game as a whole and not your tiny isle of the game. I will report any additional troll posts you create in my topic.