Guild Wars 2

If you have a mesmer that can generate lots of clones/phantasms, they can be quite useful at defending Hodgins. The gravelings rarely target him when there’s myself + 3 clones distracting them.

Max height norn mesmer… giant clones everywhere in WvW!

I think I’d go with “My weakness makes you laugh!” when my character takes on that condition

I completely agree. I’m one of those players that doesn’t spend a lot of time in PVP (I do some WvW, but mostly do PvE). I was rank 4, but the pvp daily rewards don’t give me anything to help PvE, so I kind’ve just stopped. I had a lot of fun doing pvp last night, it was a nice change of pace. And at the end of the day, laurels were awarded, and I said to myself, “I’m going to try to spread this out more next month, maybe do a match or two a day”. Today I read that it was a bug, and it made me a little sad. I’ll probably try to squeeze a match or two in now and again, but I have to admit the laurels were a big incentive!

I might change the structure of the monthly achievement a little bit…say, make it require 5 daily achievement completions (they did this with the PvE monthly when laurels came out).

Thanks for this. I think this is a really useful resource for new players, as just seeing a normal playthrough is very helpful. If you do more work, you might point out where things change at what level, if you remember. E.g. ice elemental in dredge level gets adds at level 10+, harpies get knockback attack (bring reflection if you have it!), etc. I find those changes to the levels very disorienting when I first encounter them, it’d be nice to have a summary of it (especially in text format : ) ). Maybe it’s out there already…

It’s not useless. Fractals at the moment do not have a way to repair, and I’ve been in groups where people have become pantless before the Jade Maw fractal; therefore the repair canister is useful, even though there’s an abundance of repair stations around.

It’d be great if I could retrait in Fractals if I found that my build was just not working. It’d be great if I could retrait in a WvW siege. Heck, I wanted to retrait last night and didn’t have time to go back to a trainer. Probably I’d have forgotten if it wasn’t for this thread (Here’s to hoping that I remember by the time I get home..)

I think that for the right price, I’d invest in a handful of such items. I’d certainly be happy to see them pop out of a Black Lion chest!

You should be fine, I think. Just make sure you let the group you’re new, and everything should be good!

Well, I’m not the most experienced in the dungeon running circles, but I don’t feel like reflection is a big deal, it’s a reasonably limited skill that requires some timing. Some enemies though really destroy themselves under the reflection though, so I could see the damage being capped at my max crit damage, say.

Stacking on the other hand, I find to be a real issue. Last two fractals runs that have yielded the dredge fractal have all been “ok, stack here so we can pull the minions but not the boss.” I don’t like it, personally.

Just a simple question. Chanced across a group yesterday that insisted on using an exploit on a boss… so I want to report it and make it known. Do I put a post here? Bug forums?

Thanks!

Shouldn’t this be in the bug forums?

I do not want an automatic queue tool, that would be a nightmare, I think. People would vote-kick you at your first mistake because hey someone better must be in the queue.

I’d like something closer to gw2lfg.com in game, where I can post precisely which paths our group is interested in, and that we are a no-skipping-no-exploiting group.

I did this on a character, and as I recall, I ended around level 16.

I’m with Maylojager, we need more information.

Anecdotally: when I was leveling up my first 80, doing some crafting by buying materials from the BLTC, I never found myself wanting for money. I didn’t do any farming, just played the story and did zone completion when it was appropriate. Almost all of my money went to crafting, and in retrospect this may have been an inefficient use of my limited funds, but I derived fun from that part of the game. The majority of my equipment was always of approximately current level. The upshot of all of this is that I would have never considered myself poor, because even though I was strapped for cash I was always sufficiently equipped to be able to play level appropriate content. Importantly to me, I could play this content without grinding/farming for equipment.

Sure, I’m poor when you compare me to people who are actively working on their legendaries. But there will forever be someone who plays more than I can (or want to), and even people who play the same as I do but are much more dedicated to making money. I have decided less wealth than such people, but does that make me poor?

I’m not wanting for anything I need to play any of the content in the game, so I don’t consider myself poor. This happened to me very organically, I never focused on making money (indeed, as noted, I probably threw away a lot of money on my first character by crafting), so I’m inclined to say that the economy is not bad. Maybe it’s a matter of perspective?

I don’t want to sound like I’m dismissing your concern out-of-hand, but that’s my take, until we get more information.

I have one parked in the Grove for precisely the same reasons As soon I decide to level him up, then I’ll make another

Silk Greywin, what do you mean full fee disclosure? They give the posting fee and the projected profit (which should probably be renamed revenue after posting fee).

Nevertheless, I posted a similar suggestion a while ago, and I came to appreciate the following, and assuredly rare, situation where one has a full inventory and does not want to salvage an item. If you need to quickly make room in your inventory, or cannot get to a vendor (because you are in a dungeon/fractal), then it would be acceptable to put the item on the trading post at the vendor price just to get rid of it.

So I noticed that today the prices on a lot of the T4 fine crafting materials really jumped up. Did I miss some announcement that these are somehow suddenly more valuable, or is someone just having fun with the market?

I understand that some of the items needed for legendary items require you to craft them yourself, as they are account bound. Although by the time you’re going after a legendary, I suspect leveling up the needed crafts will be trivial.

To level your crafting without dedicated farming, you’ll have to buy some things from the trading post. I did not find this at all disruptive for my gameplay; I enjoyed making my own equipment for each of my characters. On the other hand, many of the things you can make you can currently buy on the trading post for insultingly low prices; in that context, you may indeed be better of selling the materials you come across on the trading post and using the proceeds to buy your desired goods.

Crafting does give a nontrivial amount of experience as you level up the crafts. I found it to be a nice supplement to exploring the world. Even if you don’t do crafting, make sure you still carry about gathering tools, they’re always worth the investment if you sell the gathered goods on the trading post, plus they give experience, plus they contribute to your daily achievement.

Also, a quick survey of this forum will show that it can be quite difficult to make money via crafting.

Don’t take this post to be too negative though, I really enjoyed leveling up my crafting. I also primarily only play with old friends, so it’s nice for me to be able to make goods for them if they just send the materials over. It was also very nice to have level appropriate gear at all times, especially with the stats I wanted!

You can have two crafting professions active on a character at once. The cost to re-activate one (in the case you have 3, say, and you want to swap one out) is 1 copper per crafting level (so 40 silver to switch to a level 400 craft). So what I did was pick two crafting professions per character.

For your first crafting choices, I do highly recommend the armor of the type your character can wear, and jewelry. The materials for those are largely separate, and you don’t have to make as many things you won’t use to level up (e.g. 6 armor slots, instead of 4 weapon slots).

Logi.5612:

lol, no you cannot crit on a dragon. logically how can a small ant sized human possibly deal critical dmg to a scale armored dragon.

Read the Hobbit

Hi Vesan, I can’t comment on the dungeon, but I have noticed that in the jumping puzzle: If I try to walk into the box, or dodge roll into the box, I get teleported back to LA. If I jump in the box, it has worked every time. Maybe that will help?

I think he means that you should share some of your actual progress with your party, e.g. I get credit for the items you turn in, or the fences you repair, etc.

If that’s the case, I actually don’t like that, things would go too fast I think.

Hi Starscream, thanks for the site, that is useful. I occasionally used external maps, but the problem is, for me I do not find doing a direct comparison to be very rewarding or fun.

I think I’d even be willing to pay an “activation fee” of a few silver to enable this feature for a map (as long as I could toggle it on and off for free from then on), if they need to add another money sink to the game.

Sometimes when I’m aiming for zone completion, I’m stuck scanning the map looking for that one point of interest I missed, or that one heart I missed. A quality of life improvement for this situation could be a sort of “icon toggle.” As a first pass, I imagine being able to set any of the features of the map, Point of Interest, Vista, Waypoint, Heart, or Scout, to “pulse” (with a ripple of light, say) if they are revealed. Just a small effect that would highlight these types on our map so we can see if we’ve revealed one but failed to find it.

With this feature, no extra information is being given because the items have to be revealed to pulse. It just serves to speed up the fairly annoying task of scanning the map for those last few items.

For many renown hearts, one of your options for completion is to collect an item (often this gives some completion), and return it to the heart (gives a little bit more). What I have found is that it is frequently the case for me that I’ll look at the items in my inventory and I am unsure if it’s worth the trip back to turn them in, or if I should just finish the quest in the field.

So my suggestion would be to introduce a differently colored extension to the progress bar that highlights what your completion percentage would be if you turned in all of the items you’ve collected.

Sent you PMs Malediktus and Elarii.

As to why you need to return the gift to get credit for one of the achievements, I think otherwise it’s just a free for all. This gets people at least motivated to try to get the gift so that they learn to play the event as intended. I admit it’s not a perfect explanation, but I think it’s a reasonable one.

Best of luck getting this achievement!

As Sion says, this puzzle has a lot more flexibility in the actual time constraint. You can afford a short pause or two. Also, don’t get too frustrated early on. When the puzzle starts, everyone is set into one of three paths (gingerbread, snowmen, quaggan). I found once the field was very crowded, but the next two times I was running with just one other person.

For me, I just had my fingers on 123 and 789, and allowed my index finger to roam between 3-4 and 6-7. Pitched the camera overhead, and waited for the notes to stop in the circle (as suggested in the instructions you can view by striking the n key), and didn’t have any problems with it.

If you’re finding it really difficult, try to stick out an entire round. It’s possible you joined in during the hard songs. After the free-play section the map resets, and the first songs are sufficiently easy I’d be hard pressed to believe you’d not get it after a few tries. Once you “get it,” it goes much more smoothly.

Best of luck, I hope you can find a way to relax and enjoy this minigame. I hope to see different iterations of it in events to come!

As I was rounding out my map completion yesterday, I was thinking of all the awesome vistas and points of interest I had visited. Unfortunately, due to being oblivious / in combat / etc, I know I didn’t get to take the time to appreciate the details of the world.

I think it’d be fun if we could use the reflecting pool at the Hall of Monuments (or, perhaps preferably, something in LA so we can still be social) to view a still image of any of the PoIs we’ve completed, or re-watch the fly-through on vistas we’ve viewed. Alternatively, we could be teleported to the selected PoI as a ghost: no skills, no way to interact with the world, but then we could walk around and really see the structures from all angles.

One other suggestion for Vistas: I’d really like to have a title when we view them, something to give me a stronger connection with the world.

I’d really like it if I could use my in game party-portrait as a forum avatar. Otherwise, I’m happy with it being blank.

For the title, you do NOT need to have all the crafting professions on the same character. I have them split up across many alts, which helped them level. It’s convenient for me, I can make anything for any of my characters and my friends who do not play as much.

It’s been said a few times, but I’d like to see loot tables improved on “trash mobs,” with perhaps a reduction in their HP to make the fights go faster. I’ve only been able to do explorable mode with PUGs, and these groups are just interested in flying through the content as fast as possible, resulting in a lot of skipped enemies.

I think in general you’re going to be better of doing high level content to gain money, as you noted. If you are going for world completion, it might be worth going through the lower zones to complete them. You’re not going to be getting enough to completely level up the craft, but it’s something different to do

You got unlucky, unfortunately. To my knowledge, rares level 70+ can give 0 to 3 ecto when salvaged, weighted toward the 0 end. You can use master kits, your luck will turn around. Otherwise, complete daily reward, they have a small chance to give you a black lion kit.

Thanks for the responses, and also I think the “use this chat channel for this business” is a very useful contribution to the thread!

When I started WvW, someone claimed /map chat was shared between servers. I think that this isn’t true, and that the only way to communicate with other servers is through emotes (i.e. /say also doesn’t go between servers). Any comment?

I had a lot of success by jumping up into the keg as it approached.

First we need a universal group seeking mechanism for the various dungeons. Right now, having everyone in LA is good if you want to find a group to do an explorable/story mode, or the fractals…it’d be a nightmare if I had to jump from city to city looking for group.

Once we do not need to utilize LA for that purpose, I agree, I’d love spending more time in each city.

I use MF armor while I work on world completion stuff, and switch to knights armor for wvw / dungeons. I keep it all in an invisible bag (in my last bag slot). When I want to switch, I open the hero menu and whether I double-click each item to equip it or drag it from the hero-menu-inventory space to equip it, it the two pieces swap places. This is what you want to happen, right? I just tried it for weapons, seems to work there too.

I like this suggestion. I’ve often wished that, just for the last PoI, I could click something to show me the last PoI. I really have a hard time finding the last one sometimes!

It may also be that you can make it a point to go gather them specifically, rather than hoping you get an orb out of an orichalcum node, or drop.

My answer is “don’t farm.” Most of the materials you’ll come across naturally, so you can sell them and buy the equipment, or use it to make the equipment yourself. Sometimes it’s better one way, sometimes the other. I guess I prefer the stability of being able to make things myself and not worry about market pricing too much.

There’s also the experience boost (can be quite significant!), and for legendaries, you need items that are soul/account bound, as mentioned above, and if you might want one of those eventually you’ll have to craft.

I do recommend for your first two crafting professions either 1) a weaponsmithing (or huntsman, or artificing, depending on your class) OR armorsmithing that matches your class, and 2) Jewelcrafting.

The reason for this is that the materials do not overlap very much, so you’ll be more able to support both professions without farming for them specifically (and every character needs jewelry!). If you try to do weapons and armor for your class, I’ve found that I consistently exhausted all of the fine crafting materials (blood, fangs, totems, etc) just keeping one crafting profession “current.”

The number of points in precision required to gain 1% critical chance increases as you increase in level.

I can definitely see what you’re driving at here, and I respect it. I want to add my voice to the mix, just because I’m a little bit against the grain here. I actually like the emptier zones. One reason for this is that, as you say, nobody talks to the NPCs to start the events. This lets me actually see the build up to the events because I’m the one talking to the NPC. This feels better to me than me just barreling toward the orange circle on my map (which I still do…can’t help myself).

It is true that the zones are perhaps a little lonely and there are some group events never get done. So I’d be in favor of these kinds of under-flow servers as long as they have a cap on the number of players, while somehow also allowing my friends join in.

It will be a little bit jarring to make friends, only to find out that they’re matched up against you in WvW

I’m pretty new to WvW (only got into it a week or so ago), however, I must say that the battle (about 12:30am EST) at the southwest side of Fort Aspenwood Borderlands’ garrison with Yak’s was the most fun I’ve had in WvW yet

Asura
Ranger
No speed boosts

So, this took me quite a while to beat last night. A major sticking point was that I was playing as Asura, and at first it was simply hard to see my character in the frenzy. There were a few Charr, and that made it more or less impossible to see my character. I still had a blast because there was camaraderie there. Chatting while waiting for it to reset was crucial to my enjoyment, I think. You just can’t help but laugh and yell “TILTY GEAR WHYYYYYYYY” when you slide off the side of it and someone else got to watch you

I do not think it would work to change everyone to Ascalonian ghosts, or something like this, because in a large group it was important for me to be able to self-identify. But also, when you start to make friends (or have a notion of who is doing well), it’s nice to be able to identify them. As Asura, though, I think it would be a very nice to normalize everyone’s size. The puzzle is surely difficult, but the hardest part was making jumps with no direct knowledge regarding my character’s location. As I continued to try, people started to vanish, and when it was down to a field of 10-15 I could really start to see my character and make some real progress (although I had to make sure I stayed well ahead of the Charr still. This is possible by jumping early as the platforms appear during the first bit).

A comment about camera difficulties. This is one area where I don’t understand the previous comments. I did not have any camera troubles. Question to those with camera troubles: do you hold the right mouse button down while you do jumping puzzles? That’s what I do. By holding down the right mouse button, I use the mouse to turn. I can also swing it left/right and counter-balance by strafing so I can navigate some of the turns a little more efficiently. That might be a way to fix your concerns, because as noted, I never had camera issues and that’s the only thing I could think would be why.

And one anecdote: I spent the whole time in overflow. The first time I attempted the 3rd to last jump (onto a very thin bar), it asked me if I wanted to transfer out of overflow. The message window completely blocked my view and made me miss the jump. What unfortunate timing! Blast you Mad King!

Hi. I had precisely the same question. The best reason I can find is that if you are in a situation where you are pressed for inventory space and do not immediately have access to a vendor (and deposit collectible offers no space, and you don’t want to / can’t salvage), then it would be preferable to sell on BLTC instead of destroying the unwanted good.

MF Panda, you raise some good points. The thread has lead me to retract at least my first point. I think the best change to the UI would be a 3 line deal, with a 4 line popup:
3 line version:

Posted price: x
Listing fee (paid immediately): x*.05
Total Revenue if sold x*.85

When this revenue is moused over, it could display:

Posted price: x
Posting fee (paid immediately, 5%): x*.05
Revenue after selling fee (10%): x*.9
Total Revenue adjusted for both fees: x*.85

The Total Revenue amounts could be displayed in red with a “Less than vendor value” warning.

The potential problem here is that they already had some branching events early in their initial testing. Apparently it created player conflict, as some people want to see event X, and therefor do everything they can to make sure that event takes place, which often meant yelling at other players I guess.

So I definitely see the merit to this, but it would have to be designed carefully not to repeat this mistake that they felt they had to avoid.

I will admit, my favorite DEs are ones where failure spawns a sort of “make it better” DE, or where it has an impact on the world, e.g. when the pirates blow up the bridge in Lornar’s Pass.

Hint try buying some jugs of water from a Master Artificer

Food items are often used for potions, which Artificers do make. As far as I know, anything in the discovery panel can be used in some way for some recipe at some level, based on the crafting station you are at.