I got disconnected today for probably the second time ever, thought it was strange
I’m on Ferg crossing, one of the lowest population servers , during the nonprimetime day hours we had three temples open in Orr. Defended Arah gates again many attacks. So it had nothing to do with population, just what the people on your server chose to do. I’m guessing you have overflow in LA?
I’ve been shut out before at the sparks, more than once, really sucks. But these last two days I have gotten a lodestone quickly, luck is luck I guess.
Open world for me, don’t care for dungeons really
I play on the lower pop server and even we had three temples open at the same time in Orr during the day, non-prime time hours. Also seeing lots and lots of new people, but I think we get most of them due to not being ‘full’
Logged in for less than an hour, defended the gates of Arah , got lots of greens and two rare weapons (salvaged for three ectos) then killed sparks for about ten minutes got a charged lodestone. Just adding my experience.
And again, the “anti-entitlement”, “But I want to be milked” and “I am only here to abuse the market” people take over this thread.
Listen people, dyes aren’t meant to be your gold source. They were meant to be a little cosmetic extra that will make your character look nicer. It’s sad that the market of this game is in the hand of freshmen economists that exploit and capitalize on anything worth gold, making more casual (in the sense of not being worried about their gold all the time) suffer.
Any item with huge visibility with different tiers and very rare drops will have a market and be a source of trading/gold. So I’d say you are wrong, dye were obviously designed to be a source or trading and gold exchange.
I had a real good run doing event in orr last night, pretty much 50% greens, got a charged lodestone off a spark, and a couple doubloons and other rare crafting mats. Also a lot less porous bones. Just saying.
They also said new mats will be introduced so guess we will see friday
If you do not like to gamble do not buy them. The dont promise anything other than a chance to get a rare item. I got absolutely served by the lost shores special chest, embarrassingly so. No one to blame but myself.
At least you are not trying to farm Charged lodestones
It pretty clear they view WvWvW as an essential part of the game, you want a legendary? You are doing WvWvW. You want world completion? You are doing WvWvW. I support their decision.
I’ve just done 100% world completion, and during the lower level zones I must have looted about a dozen dyes over maybe 8 hours (multiple sessions). The are still dropping.
No it’s not too late, there are many new people in the starting areas and it is not really possible for someone to get ‘ahead’ to a point you can’t catch up in this game.
probably for a long time, got shut out my last two attempts at farming them.
Oh i know how the question appears, but with even a minor amount of browsing the forums, the basic majority consensus is that magic find may not be having any effect and even some reports of a negative effect.
So my question stands, is magic find working? and now one step further to the original question, do the boosters actually do anything, currently?
The Nexon stuff is just tinfoil fodder, the type of influence people are proposing is beyond the power of a minority stake shareholder. They will eventually be able to possible get people on the board via nominations and meetings, but even a 15% stake doesn’t ensure anything like that. It’s a public company, there are rules and laws with people watching for improper influence.
See I am getting mats pretty quickly, well fast enough to keep me happy, t6 drops and converting t5. I will admit, magic find MAY help these drops, I can’t really tell but I would like a confirmation that MF isn’t bugged before I spend more gold (or cash) on gems to buy boosters. With all the hours I have played, if it had an effect, you think I would have noticed by now.
Need a lot of karma (now fractals if that’s your thing) for legendary
If you guild wont help you, time to find a more helpful guild. The guild I am in always goes out of their way to help me and in turn I help the new people.
I do WvW and every DE I run across. That plus dailies got me 100k in a week after I blew 300k on shards.
Hello Developers or moderators,
Can you please simply state whether the magic find boosters being sold in the gem shop are currently functioning properly or not?
Thank you
Nothing I’ve come across is this game hurt as much as farming sparks for multiple hours (with gem store magic find boost and all possible food/armor magic find) and not even getting a rare drop let alone a lodestone.
Times like these make me think again about buying a 5 pack of magic find boosters, I know it’s not pay to win, but if you buy something (with gold, gems or cash) it should at least work.
Maybe I should start a thread on the bug page about gem store MF boosters, if they won’t at least adress if the are currently working or not, then they really should stop selling them.
Do dynamic event chains and go for world completion
On Ferg crossing, I am doing world completion so visiting all the zones, still plenty of people. I’ve run into a lot of new people as well, they just bought game in the last week. Since we are not a full server, I bet we get the most new players. Game is doing fine.
The teleporting bots are out of control.
Yep, previous post nailed it. My go to is grawl in frostgorge
Ferg crossing, medium pop server, banded together after the last server reset and opened the temple. It really is a good time to do it. Once they announce the reset, goto cursed shore and lions arch and get people to go right to the events when they log in. Best way to avoid bugged event to. Point being, even the lowest pop servers can still get the temple open.
Yeah, I think it is safe to say due to the lack of any response that this is not a bug and is now the new normal.
Same here, great game, free monthly updates!
AN are doing extensive checks in the background the player reporting tool is just part of the redundancy security system I’ll just say Warden redux is alive. and well.
I can’t help but question how extensive or effective those security checks are while watching the trading post get flooded with a ridiculous amount of crafting resources over the past week. Dozens of listings of 20,000-60,000 units (per price listing!) of a single resource being dumped into the market in less than a 24 hour period yesterday alone.
i agree, i think this ‘botting technique’ is gaining in popularity alarmingly fast. Also i am not talking about rare nodes like Ori and such, i see people in the low level areas and at multiple ‘junk nodes’.
thanks i did not see that thread.
I was just shocked how often i saw this happening over the course of two hours today.
real hard to catch the names since often i am not looking directly at them.
Is the loot drop rate working as indented or not?
thanks
Hello,
These botters are really getting out of control now, they are everywhere. Questions for the developers:
Isnt there some type of movement detection program that should signal when people are warping around the zones?
What is the best way for us to report them? they spawn and disappear so fast it is hard to even grab a name rendering the traditional reporting mechanism ineffective.
Also screen shots are not really proof either since it looks no different than any real player harvesting a node.
thanks!
Thanks, I am looking to get one of these real soon.
How’s the mapping software for these mice, specifically related to gw2?
Probably wont get any information until they are positive about the final system, people tend to over react on these forums, god forbid they say you might need some of a specific item and it turns out you don’t. Also any hints about requirements will leads to a price increase on such items. See the ascended/ecto correlation.
Patience is a virtue, a new mechanism for obtaining precursors is in the works.
If they up drop rates then I will drop in value, however this seems unlikely right now
The drops in WvWvW are pretty good right now, rares, exotic, dyes, lodestones, etc
As far as i can tell, magic find really helps with upping the tier of crafting mats that drop. I get a r lot more T6 mats with magic gear on. Also seems to help lodestone drops, often i’ll get two before anyone in my group with out MF gets one.
I’ve been going for map completion and am surprised how many people I see out in the middle of nowhere. Even on my medium pop server.
Buy obsidian shards?
You guys wearing max magic find and food?
you got a very valid point, some zones that are real good to farm some lodestones have a ‘roaming’ champion mob. real players can avoid it if they want, a bot wont have that option.
There are known areas that are just hot beds for bot activity, you know them, i know them. How about spawning some champion mobs there every 1-2 hours or so to clean the bots out. I doubt their technique could even kill many veterans let alone a champ. While you are at it, give these champs good drops so the real players can actually be rewarded for killing the harder mobs.
Another update – Haven’t seen a yellow outside of fractals in over a week. Morale is low.
Honestly at this point this thread seems pointless other than informing the community. We might as well be posting quotes from ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ for all the attention and feedback we’re getting.
Really, not one yellow in a week? This weekend over the course of maybe 8 hours of playing i have looted about 10 rare weapons/armor, probably 2 charged lodestones and 4 corrupted lodestones. Also about 5-6 dyes and a plethora of green/blues.
I agree the looting in general has turned very poor, but not one rare in a week? seems like an outlier to me.
While forum users are a minority, most people who use it as an argument are using a logical fallacy
That is, they assume that everyone who is not posting on the forums, must not have the same mindset as those on the forums. Or that the forums does not indicate in any way the overall mindset of the larger population.
Forum posters are a minority. But it doesnt mean that our viewpoints and complaints are not indicative of what the majority of GW2 players also believe.
True, but it it doesn’t mean they are indicative either.
16 Green Wood Logs -> Soft Wood Log
14 Soft Wood Logs -> Seasoned Wood Log
12 Seasoned Wood Logs -> Hard Wood Log
8 Hard Wood Logs -> Elder Log
4 Elder Logs -> Ancient Wood LogOnly 86016 Green Wood Logs for one Ancient Wood Log. Seems doable.
You do know a mechanism like this already in game right? Mystic forge can upgrade mats.