Guild Wars 2

You do not get the achievement for a failed event. I keep track of every single invasions I went. You probably got lucky with a bug or something.

I finally got the achievement a few hours ago. I went 10/30/20/0/10, with fiery wrath and torch CD skill. Weapon is sword/torch + shield. Utility is wall of reflection, shelter, sanctuary and bane signet (for extra damage).
I followed Akamon’s advice, moving forward with each ooze popped out. Used torch 4,4 for spike damage, shield 5 to push subject 7 away from ooze, wall of reflect when ooze starts to increase, sanctuary for additional push, while whittling subject 7’s hp. Took me about 3 tries.

Thanks so much for your advice! I’ll try it later this weekend.

Alright thanks! I’m in the process of getting zerk trinkets to boost up my dps.

So I’m running an AH guardian with stats of 2.9k atk, 3k armor, 16.5k hp, 40% crit rate and 60% crit dmg with 0/15/30/20/5 trait build. From dulfy’s guide, I’m supposed to circle strafe Subject 7 and not hit the ooze. When I tried to circle strafe however, the ooze will eventually go near Subject 7 (to get closer to me to hit me), blocking my orbs. Scepter damage is also not high enough and eventually Subject 7 will start to outheal my damage. I tried melee-ing using sword, but I can’t avoid killing other oozes either. Any other suggestions? I’m thinking of pulling/pushing Subject 7 to a wall, and then use scepter to range it while strafing left and right. Is that possible?

Impossible? Nope. Got mine by guesting to a low population server (can’t remember which). There were only 12 players against Shatterer. Only 12 players , no kidding.

With 200% MF and farming in a high density mob area, I can get about 10 kite fortunes an hour. Of course, I tend to have lousy luck, so you might be doing better than me.

Dragon coffers have abysmal drop for tickets. I had to open 3800 to get a single ticket. I prefer the new kite fortunes. You can easily get around 20-30 scraps per day by playing casually. Random mob drops them, wvw players and loot bags drop them, zephyr sanctum boxes drop them, kite baskets drop them. You can even buy those kite fortunes from the gemstore. And if you’re lucky, you can get the golden scrap which allows you to get the item you want immediately. Even if you don’t get the golden scrap , you still get the normal scraps which counts on your progress. How exactly is this worse than dragon coffers, which is entirely dependent on the mercy of RNG?

Ouch. You got a thief/ranger alt for the short bow?

Keep the stories coming so I don’t have to feel too bad about myself! XD

Nah. Rangers are pretty cool.

Although I understand your losses, market fluctuations are not something we can control about. Mine however is pure stupidity. XD

Half an hour ago I decided to spent my hard earned laurels on some utility amulets. I already had 2, both are Distinguished Circle of Logics (zerker stats) with 20% gold and 15% karma infusion. I then went and bought another Distinguished Circle of Logic(?!) and infused it with the 20% magic find. Only after I equipped it I realized I should have gotten the Golden Lotus (+10% extra MF) instead (insert head-meet-wall sound effect here). 50 laurels down the drain and I can’t even blame anyone but myself. So what other stupid things have you guys done recently?

The lightning pull is ridiculous. manual: miss. Auto: miss. Fire at max range: Goes further than max range. How are you supposed to use it?

They need to fix this. At least a quarter of all the holograms in any map are bugged and will not spawn anything.

After 3800 coffers, I FINALLY got a ticket. Now I can die without any regrets.

Oh that’s what you meant. Sorry I was interpreting the other way round.

From the patchnotes:
All players that purchased a Rich Dragon Coffer before the fix above was added will receive 1 Dragon’s Revelry Starcake recipe via in game mail as compensation. This compensation is scheduled to be delivered in a few days.

You might want to read the whole thing before posting.

A week ago I opened 1000 coffers with no tickets. Now I’ve opened 3300 coffers and I’m still at zero tickets. This has become beyond ridiculous.

2000 coffers and 0 tickets. The system works? My foot.

Opened about 1100 coffers, no tickets. My friend opens 200 coffers, got 2 tickets. RNG really hates me T_T. I’ll try another 1000 when the price drops to around 2s each i guess.

I have over 600 hours playing as a guardian, and I’m trying to play my lvl 80 thief. My main issue is that I’ve played an AH guardian for so long, that I’m simply not used to the fact that I cannot heal at anytime I want with a thief. Condition removal is also something I have to actively think about (As a guardian, conditions are auto removed every 10 seconds and at every shout). I run a mixture of Valkyrie/Knight armor with berserker accessories on my thief, and yet I feel so squishy. Do you guys have any advice or builds that can make my transition easier? What traits should I go with? Should I go with a more tanky spec?

From what I read on the forums, apparently you can change server for free if you delete all your characters. I stand corrected though.

Dawn is over 600g. I’m currently using Khyrsaor, which has the same skin as Dawn. I’m actually interested in real world greatswords, like the Flamberge with its wavy blade, the single bladed Japanese Katana and the Mesoamerican obsidian bladed Macuahuitl. More elegant greatswords please?

Some of the GS (Vigil GS, pearl GS, Norn GS) are way bigger than the shields. =_=

Dear Anet, I like that fact that you added new weapon skins, but really, why is that 80% of all the greatswords look like they were designed for Cloud Strife? All my female human guardian wanted are nice looking, elegant and sleek greatswords, like Khrysaor or Kymswarden. But, since the Halloween update, all the new greatswords are twice the size of my guardian. Even the ultrarare greatswords like Sunrise, Twilight, and Volcanus are huge.

So please, introduce more elegant and sleek greatswords that can actually be wielded with two hands in future updates.

Sincerely,
Someone who is concerned with the current fad of humongous weapons

This is probably tangential to the topic, but there is a free mmorpg out there that does not have your standard currency system. It’s called Path of Exile. And my god buying/selling things on that game is horrendous.

I’m having the same issue. I’m stuck at 36/37 achievements, I suspect the East End dive location is bugged, but I have no proof because I didn’t track down each dive. I did all diving three times, and still stuck at 36/37.

I play as an AH hammer guardian, and the only time I’ll ever use the staff in dungeons is to clear the blooms in TA, and to use empower (with 40% boon duration) before combat. Line of warding has few uses, but the hammer’s ring of warding does the same job.

As for Kohler, SIX interrupts? The hell? Just go melee on him and evade when you see him charging. Why do you need to interrupt him for? His normal attacks doesn’t even do enough damage to drop my health below 90%. Same goes with King and Colossus. Keep in melee range and stay at their backs when you see them charging up.

Also healing gear is crap. Go P/V/T and make yourself useful. If you want to give support, get rune of soldier + pure of voice or boon runes for permanent protection during melee.

Chaos Crystal Cavern and Branded Mine did not register either. Seriously, that’s SIX jumping puzzles not counted. Am I supposed to visit all 44 jumping puzzles?

Same issue here. I have completed ALL the jumping puzzles (excluding holidays), there are some jumping puzzles that didn’t register to the count when I redo them. So far, Spelunkers Delve, Dark Reverie and Collapsed Observatory did not register. My other party member however did get them. I tried relogging and visiting them some time afterwards but the count did not change. Fix it please.
Edit: Goemm’s lab not working for me either. Is there a DR or CD or something?

270 degrees is no cone man. XD I agree changing the animation to reflect the actual area of effect would be helpful. Don’t have to nerf him.

I can’t do it. I tried for 3 hours and I never got past the snowflake tiles. Had to quit the game before i throw my laptop to the wall. For those who think it’s easy, congratulations. I just don’t have the same hand to eye coordination you guys have. Must be nice to not suck at games.

I couldn’t do the JP. I tried for 3 hours and I never got past the snowflake tiles. I don’t have good hand to eye coordination, and I have to do every JP slowly. Now that its timed, how on earth can I solve it? Forget about the music game. Can’t do that either. I just hope Tixx’s airship will be better.

I really don’t appreciate being called a troll. It might be possible that I’ve been misinformed. But from what I have looked from various topics on the forum, there are stories of people who have gotten precursors from at least veteran mobs (events). Perhaps my guildmates have been lying to me. If you could link me the original response given by Anet regarding this issue, I would appreciate it.

You guys do know that precursors can be dropped by champions right? 2 members from my guild got precursors (dawn + something else i forgot) from the risen drake broodmother in cursed shore.

I’ve noticed that the battle presence trait in the honor line works even if I have activated virtue of resolve and it is on cooldown. Is it intended to work even while the virtue is in cooldown? It’s quite odd since I don’t get the passive effect but others do.