Guild Wars 2

My best bet and tip for you is:
If you are not in need of the money, and want some head start onto the new things coming out, save every material you get. From shards/t1 mats to lodestones/t6.

I am sure that most part of the mats necessary will be new mats (Such as dark energy got from salvaging ascended). But I am also sure that we will need other old materials, in a form similar to the ascended actually.

Since forum log-in update, I am not able to see my leaderboard position anymore. Everytime I go to that section, it asks to me to login to see my personnal stats based on my profile, but when I actually click on it, it redirect me to my https://account.arena.net/overview page instead.

Anyone else, or is it just me? If it is global, can this be fixed? pointless have a leaderboard if you can’t acess your position in there.

And what makes you think that there will not have all other stats in other ascended pieces into the expansion?

if they are going to add other stats to the legendary back piece, its pretty obvisous to have on other pieces too.

Rin of Rivvinda.4971:

MauricioCezar.2673:

From today blogpost:
“salvaging each type of item, like gloves or weapons, will yield different results, but all *will provide a chance at the new *ball of dark energy salvage item that will be used for crafting new legendary items in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns and beyond. Salvaging ascended rings will also grant players stabilizing matrices, a necessary component for legendary crafting.”

Will these new materials be strictly rewarded trough ascended salvage, or can we obtain trough other means? I don’t care salvage a bunch of rings, since they are pretty easy to get, but seems like that the rings gives a different sort of material than armors or weapons.

Fixed that quote, As you can read, ALL accended items will have chance to give you a ball of dark energy salvage item that will be used for crafting new legendary items. Rings are accended items thus they will drop it too. Different results will likely mean that you can get more if you salvage an accended armor piece or weapon which seems logical as they are much harder to get then rings.

IN addition (so next to this) only rings will be able to give you stabilizing matrices. which are also needed in new legendary crafting.

This means that we WILL need to savage accended rings as they are the only items that give us the stabilizing matrices. Next to that you can salvage ANY accended item (including rings) to get the ball of dark energy. This it might even be possible to get both an ball of dark energy and a stabilizing matrice from 1 ring salvage if your RNG is lucky.

Salvaging of other accended items is not required, but optional for those of us that want to get rid of some for some reason (i would re-stat them in the mystic force but thats just my idea… ) So if you want you will be able to smash them. They will probably have an higher drop rate of dark energy then rings (though the higher drop rate is speculation but it seems likely given that they are much harder to come by then rings) they could also drop other items but so far there is no mention that any of those will be required for legendaries.

If you read carefully, you notice that they give examples of Armors or weapons, both will give chances for dark energy. A little further, they state that rings will give chance for stabilizing matrices, wich is a different material.

Now, of course this could only be a fail in comunication by the blogpost writer, and the rings could indeedly gives dark energy too. And thats the reason I have put this topic up, for clarification, since the blopost is very misleading in a lot of aspects.

ThyShadowPaladin.9521:

You do know you can get a ton of ascended chests from fractals. 0g needed. Also, if you failed to notice, the current Legendaries are ALL gold grinds. No difference. No one’s forcing to to farm for them. If you wan’t a legendary get it. If not, then don’t. The farming + grind required is part of the acquisition process.

I run daily fractas 40 and 50 every day, the average of ascended box drop is still 1 every 8 dailys. I have 8 + 1 (Revenant) toons to gear up with ascended, I have right now 4 complete sets, and 7 spare pieces (Boots/shoulders). Yes, thankx for the useless info, I know that we can get “Free” ascendeds at fractals.

My real questioning here is : Why someone would toss onto trash a 100g worth armor piece, for a “Chance” of a craft mat? I know I would probably end up doing , but it don’t seens rightly designed if that is the case. Either way, I am passing up troll comments such of yours from now on. This is not a rant thread, it is meant to be a questioning for clarification.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

It is a LEGENDARY item… it is supposed to be hard to get. If every lookyloo with 20g could get a legendary item it wouldn’t be very legendary would it?

I already bought the mats needed to make/salvage 100 ascended items with this news. If you can’t do the same then you probably aren’t to the point where you should be pursuing a LEGENDARY item.

The whole talk about the new legendarys, is that they are not meant to be a gold pay to get, but a legendary journey instead. So, where is the point if need to sunk hundreds of golds for a chance of a dark energy? This is not a legendary journey, just another grind for gold to geit it.

Of course, we have no info if there is another way to get dark energy yet, and thats why I brought this topic up, To see if we can get some clarification on it.

Mireles Lore.5942:

It sounds like you will get different materials in different amounts from ascended armor and weapons, but all will have a chance at dark matter, and it sounds like matrices will be exclusive to ascended rings.

Atleast thats how I read it.

Dark Matter is the actual Exotic-only salvaged material. They are stating that armor and weapons can wield ball of dark energy.

If they follow the formula of glob of dark matter, this means that in order to get the new legendarys, we will need to salvage ascended weapons and armor, for a chance to get the needed ball of dark energy.

This, is what I have fear. For serious, salvage a 100g worth piece of equipment for a chance at a needed material seens very dangerous. Even if I dropped that piece of equipment.

From today blogpost:
“salvaging each type of item, like gloves or weapons, will yield different results, but all will provide a chance at the new ball of dark energy salvage item that will be used for crafting new legendary items in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns and beyond. Salvaging ascended rings will also grant players stabilizing matrices, a necessary component for legendary crafting.”

Will these new materials be strictdely rewarded trough ascended salvage, or can we obtain trough other means? I don’t care salvage a bunch of rings, since they are pretty easy to get, but seens like that the rings gives a different sort of material than armors or weapons.

Actually, it would not be that easy, since dragon bash was built upon old lion’s arch, not the new one.

Basically, they would need to rebuild the decorations in the new lion’s arch, the events, and probably the rewards too.

As far we know, anet is totally focused on expansion, thus no content is being added into the game.

I feel sad too, since I LOVED the dragon bash event.

Thats a shame!
Can I have your spot?

/jk

If I can tame one of those dinossaurs, and the rid on it, I’ll change my main to a ranger.

If I can tame a mushroon, or a itzel, then I’ll put ranger as my top “For Fun” character.

CureForLiving.5360:

cupcakesandcatnomz.3924:

if this is a lazy way to throw in season 1 then i’m getting really moist and salty :c

Players were asking for this! Players were suggesting this.
This is just Anet listening to the players.

And I for one am very glad that ANet has at least done something, they can always expand upon it later.

Mora.3967:

Two issues with the cinematic:

• “No one at first knew why she began her reign of terror. Some say she peered into the very fabric of the universe and went insane.” — Omadd’s machine isn’t shown until Season 2: Entanglement — The Machine, so why is it included to show what she saw? It ruins the build up to discover what really happened to her.

There was a short story, outside of the game, but very much made available during S1.

There was a story, but that didn’t showed what scarlet saw into the eternal alchemy. I tonly saw he got into omadd machine, and got out of there crazy.

Basandra Skye.4031:

MauricioCezar.2673:

Patch coming today makes me nervous. dat 95% is tricking me. I Think I will get the last 5 tries this noon, before patchs comes out. Hopefully, I get some ectos back every try and don’t need to sink all my last bits of golds/mats.

Unless they’ve got a blog post or some other announcement giving information to such effect, why do people keep thinking there’s going to be a patch every Tuesday? Well, some people.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Hall-of-Monuments-Update/page/9#post5324740
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/World-Population-Changes-Are-Coming/page/4#post5324934

Maybe not a “Big patch” or game update, but sill a patch is scheduled. =P

Patch coming today makes me nervous. dat 95% is tricking me. I Think I will get the last 5 tries this noon, before patchs comes out. Hopefully, I get some ectos back every try and don’t need to sink all my last bits of golds/mats.

Think what? Back when I bought gw2 on my country (Brazil), it costed around of 106 R$ ( my country coin). I Bought hot and it is right now showing at my credit card the absurd value of 184,54 R$. Thats around of 57% higher than the core game.

PS: I bought the most basic version, the 49.99 USD one.

I know your pain.

If you tried everything and nothing holds you atm, its totally fine just log in take rewards and log out. Its a good time to fresh out, try some other games and come back once you miss gw2, I’ve been into this situation several times.

For me at the moment, I do a daily fractal 50 (the game type that I love at most), and spend some time on Spvp, since it can be a lot of fun and grants me some sweet achievments.

Anet stated on one of the interview or blogposts, that you will only be able to equip one elite spec at time.

Sorry for not putting link, at work now. I’ll try to find out, but thats a thing I am completely sure of.

Another thing to remember, is that elite specs also change profession mechanics, so its another fact to be sure that you will not be able to wield 2 elite specs.

Linfang.1087:

MauricioCezar.2673:

I bet we are getting a birthday spoon.

Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?

To combine with teq spoon, Fractal spoon, and wxw spoon at mystic forge for the ultimate Shiny spoon.

3 , because it just don’t change anything on my game play. It will be just as situational as any other specialization for me.

Wait, they really removed it??? I can’t believe, that was one (If not the most) interesting parts of the personal history.

It gave some sort of prelude to what is to happen on that episode, and also gives some introduction to Destiny Edge to players who are new and don’t know who exactly they are, or how important they are.

I Can’t believe the kids got removed. ]

Edit: The only reason I can imagine they removing it is to not giving “Spoilers” about the Destiny Edge Novel. I Can understand if thats the case, but I don’t thinks its right.

I bet we are getting a birthday spoon.

Jayden Ennok.3687:

I think most people who play ele like the usual ele gameplay and overcharge just completely breaks it, so it’s logical most won’t like the specialisation.

Those that like flashy animations will love rp’ing that cute water bubble pikatchu.

So much true in so few words. This guy talks wisely.

Sword, #NeverForget.

Plants vs Zombies?

So, I am right now at 95/100 for the achievment, and with enough ectos for another 3 tries.

I am farming the gold for the last 5 tries, but I am afraid of it being removed on a patch coming soon, is it safe to assume the skritt is permanent? I really don’t want to have my 1.5k gold and last 4 weeks tossed into trash at 95/100 with the vendor being removed.

Can anyone clarify if it is a perma addition to the game or not?

Respawn still puts you in combat if you get killed trough direct damage.

Autobalance is NOT giving automatic win as it states it does, so swapper keep forcing autbalance making dailys a pain to get.

Please, please, fix T_T.

Zention.1849:

Yes. As far as my understanding goes, you will be able to use the overloading without having a warhorn equipped or the trait line tempest.

Still I personally have my difficulties finding its usefulness in PvE.

Wrong.

You need tempest spec to overload attunements? yes.

You need to use warhorn to overload attunements? no

You can be a overloaded staff ele? yes

Try hellfire.
/15skritts

You can wield any weapon while using elite spec.

You seens to can only wield the new weapon if using the elite spec.

Zojja and Snaff

In other hand, we got repetition of profession skill – Shouts.
In other hand, trough the ele warhorn we got confirmed that those ascended skins datamined are the elite specs weapons skins. There was a glint shield there, and a pole staff there. This is 2 repeated profession weapons right there.
In other hand, Seens like the chances of thief getting pole staff, actually rose to 90%.

In Other hand, Staff thief seens much more amazing than WH ele. Don’t complain, or I’ll curse you to get a off hand torch.

Ele and their crappy elites. Well, I think I will stick with my never used “0” button.

No, For real, I NEVER use elite on my ele, just because it is not worth for anything. Seens like this is not changing atm.

I like the rest of stuff ele is getting tough.

Typo ^^

And use #5 on mai makes me rip her stacks faster than aything else, since I tank her in the spot without need to move away. Of course, vapor form also works, but cd’s.

meeflak.9714:

MauricioCezar.2673:

Since as a main ele I got a lame warhorn, I wish with my vengeful heart that you get a torch.

/madlaugh

I’d like to hear your complaints on warhorn.

Mostly because I am too tied on aesthectics and playstile :\

I know the skills functionalitys and damage/cleanse numbers are great. I just hate my wizard esteriotype blowing a horn around (Also, I’ve been searching for a good loking warhorn to maaaybe makes me a little less sad, but there are not a single good looking one :\ ).

Khristophoros.7194:

MauricioCezar.2673:

There are a lot of types of game content out there, its not only based on dungeons. And even if you nerf Ice bow (What would be very unfair), it would just make another meta skill in its place, not variability.

It would help other professions see more use in dungeons. I mean isn’t the optimal dungeon comp using 2 eles? Hard to compete with a guy who can drop 2 ice bows.

So I guess yeah the thread is really about dungeon balance. But dungeon balance matters.

I agree with you, and would love to see some ranger/necro love/usability for dungeons.

But invalidating a sort of gameplay will not bring love to others. I’d rather see a big buff to pets, making a good usage to then, or givin necros power forms + slow application.

Since as a main ele I got a lame warhorn, I wish with my vengeful heart that you get a torch.

/madlaugh

dace.8019:

The underlying problem with Frost Bow is that it is validating the Conjure category almost on its own. Once, long ago, and possibly now in some niche roles, the Lightning Hammer would be conjured. Not so much now. Earth Shield? Hah! Lava Axe? Shadap! Bring Frost Bow #4 into line? RIP conjures.

Why has it taken this long for ANet to publicly aknowledge (then backtrack) on the frost bow? Well, track record. It took them 2 years to fix FGS. It wasn’t (just) imbalanced, it was demonstrably broken.

Why will Frost Bow be much longer to fix it? Much like FGS, trying to fix the bow has exposed underlying weaknesses inherent in the conjure category. The thing needs more than a few tweaks to damage/projectile count, almost every skill on it would probably need to be looked at to compensate. Then this opens the can of worms labelled “What about the rest of the conjures that almost nobody uses?”. Bam! 4x the work. Cue someone in management at ANet shaking their head and shuffling this to the bottom of the pile.

Sorry, but if you really see things into this way, you surely don’t know how to play elementalist.

I agree that Ice Bow is the most used, mainly on group dungeons due to its fast burst damage. But calling that none of the other weapons are used, or have uses? Guys, there’s a lot more content into the game than just dungeons, and anet don’t need to patch everything into one unique gameplay aspect. No matter how thye “Balance”, there will ALWAYS have some particular skill that are better than other, and thus will be more viable and always chosen.

As a ele main, I say to you that I still run Lightining hammer on solo battles A LOT, due to his nice dps and stuns. I still Use earth Shield every time I get mai trin, because the Earth shield #4 has a inciridble powerful invulnerable effeect that allows me tank mai into the aoe area to rip their stacks off. I also use FGS very regularly on open pve (Mainly for movment, I admit), only fire axe that I never tried to be honest.

So coming here saying “Ice bow need nerf to give more usability to other conjures” is just very overseen.

There are a lot of types of game content out there, its not only based on dungeons. And even if you nerf Ice bow (What would be very unfair), it would just make another meta skill in its place, not variability.

So basically, the awnser for better usage of other skills, is invalidate the current one? Nice joke bro!

I am more assuming this has been overseen by anet. I just can’t see myself ingame, swapping my spec line and then poof, automatically unequip the weapon I was using.

Also, seens very very strange for the 1-handed weapons to be all this locked, for reasons already stated on my previous posts.

On beta wekeends, on beta areas, with beta characters, on beta events.

Gotta wait for the events happens tough.

PS: Gotta have HoT Prepurchased also.

Can anyone provide a link with confirmation of such thing? Seens completely out of sense the new weapon be hard-tied to spec lol. How are we supposed to match future weapons (As i.e sword+warhorn) if only 1 elite spec is allowed?

It is not likely the new weapon have some super awesomeness skill that makes it be restricted.

So, lets say the warhorn for ele as example, we are obligated to have tempest equipped in order to be able to use warhorn?

Or can we use warhorn regardless of what specializations are equiped?

I sincerely imagine that the new weapon is not hard-blocked to the elite specialization, since it would be strane having the weapon automatically unequipped when trading specs.

And worse of al, would be very strange if we get lets say MH sword as future elite spec, and can’t combine sword+WH i.e.

Hmm.. because he acts as the full soberan of the pact, the major expert in everything, while the pplayes do all the dirt work and everything else while taking the rank of..

2nd in command? SERIOSULY?

I think we all know how preview is different than actually view it in game working along all the animations :\

Sylvari. I Am dying to make a female sylvari revenant and see how well the armor will fit into my next most played profession.

And no, I will not make a warrior/guardian female sylvari only to check out the armor :P

On a personnal note op, I play just and only for fractals 80% of my time.

Its abou the same as the SW farmers, only tought its my kind of elite content, since fractals 50 actually NEED’s different roles, just like you are pointing. (Grawl shaman is a good example of it). The difference, is that gw2 don’t support the “Classic” roles (aka trinity), it have a much higher versatility for roles. I’ll put examples for you:

Warrior = Dps Support (Phalanx strenght+empower allies, give the group more power).
Guardian = Reflects/heals (WoR, SoA, and Feel my wrath are incridibly powerful supportive skills).
Elementalist = Debilitating mobs (Gliph of storms can invalidate mobs with vulnerability, blinds, etc., frost bow can pretty much inutilize a boss for 5s)
Mesmer = Quick runs (He can literally stealth to pass trough some mobs, or portal the group to skip trashs, or give awesome quickness to the party)
Thief = Stealth group (More focused on skip trash on dungeons, and this is not bad tbh)
Ranger, engi and necro are the ones I agree that don’t have pretty good group roles, but they are op on pvp, so…

DresdenAllblack.1249:

36k achievement points should take a ‘normal’ human being about 8 years to reach.

Not really, we already have ppl reaching 28,5k. Assuming HoT will bring a lot of achievments (I am assuming around of 8k’ish, spared trough pvp/wxw/pve/story), already brings us to 36k.

I was looking at the achievment armor skins rewards, and the way the set it atm, it complete boths sets at 36k.

After that, we have he 2 full sets complete, but there’s still one piece of armor missing! Backpacks, yes! Radiant and hell fire backpacks. Wngs maybe?

This game is not designed for classic trinity, and it is pretty good the way it is. Please people, stop trying to change the game to your own wish’s, you should realize that the way the game was build is what attracted a lot of people in first place, so changing it to the classic trinity is just unfair for the original purpose of the game, and original buyers.

It is not like you got fooled when you bought the game, it is very explicit that gw2 don’t work the same way as the 2nd generation or classic standard mmorpg’s. It is perfect the way it is.

On a final note : You are not obligated to run the game the same way as others, you can play gw2 ur own way without any problems, as long as you don’t invalidate other persons gameplay style.

Yes, as Roquen said, your friend will lose his legendary in the process.

Basically, he will have sunrise and twillight skins unlocked in the process of forging eternity. He CAN NOT equip eternity, or that will souldbond it to him.

He then, sends you the non-bound eternity to you, you unlock eternity and the preview 2 skins.

IN overall, you friend you earn the sunrise skin, but he will lose a purple weapon (Selectable stats) on the process, since the previous legendarys are used as components to craft eternity.