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The reason they came down in the first place was because of those karma things that have a chance to have lodestones in them.
Tons of people spent hundreds of thousands of spare karma on them, selling the lodestones (and thus lowering the price). Now the karma is gone. Of course people can still go buy them but it won’t ever be like it was right when they were added and thousands of people dumped 500k+ karma on them immediately.
2. Vast VAST majority of suggestions will be things the person isn’t flipping. If they were flipping that thing, they wouldn’t be likely to get everyone on the forums involved in their market, ruining an opportunity.
That’s not necessarily true. For example lets say I wanted to flip black lion chests and bought all the ones up 3 copper up to 6 copper. I post a tip to people that they are flippable and they buy up all the 7-8 copper chests maybe more. Then I can put all mine up for 9 copper and bam profit is made.
I’m not suggesting black lion chests are a viable item to flip (although sometimes they are, especially around events like halloween and wintersday) but it does show it can be beneficial to share your tips on occasion
Yeah, there’s always pump and dump.
Of course, that’s just another situation where people should ignore suggestions, so the end point stands.
I’m certainly all for more skins.
Given the nature of the game which always seemed to have a longterm goal of getting items with a cool cosmetic appearance, it seems like we’re short on that.
Legendary weapons are for the most part good. Need fancy, prestigious, difficult to get armor appearances too. (Doesn’t need to be legendary, stuff like the glowy fractal backpiece is good for example).
Of course, more cash shop appearance stuff would certainly be good too. Not town clothes, stuff people can actually enjoy.
Keep talking in this thread for a few weeks.
Every single thing people suggest to flip, ignore those items. Eventually there’ll be a narrow list of stuff left. That’s what you should look at.
This is for 2 reasons:
1. 99% of people that try to help here are poor and have no idea what they’re doing. This is why so many posts are people complaining about prices. People that complain about prices are poor. Don’t take advice from anyone that complains about prices because if they were worth hearing trading advice from, they’d have money.
2. Vast VAST majority of suggestions will be things the person isn’t flipping. If they were flipping that thing, they wouldn’t be likely to get everyone on the forums involved in their market, ruining an opportunity.
People won’t like this, but I’m just keeping it real™
Remember the movie “Let it ride” where the guy asked everyone for advice on who to pick the next race, and crossed off every horse people suggested? It’s like that. =P
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Humans are awesome, I’ve been one my whole life
I selected human female because I am a human female in person. I think Anet did a good job making it available, it’s like the game was made for me. =P
Its very obvious that you never actually played an ele before.
Yeah that’s a comfortable escape from truth.
The proof Ele is faceroll is my gf.
She’s terrible at PvP, mouse clicker and all that, but when I gave her the cookie cutter D/D spec she’s topping charts in sPvP and plowing through people in WvW.
When a build makes a terribad player into a killing machine that only takes a rotation it’s obviously skill-less garbage that needs to be nerfed.
Thief easymode is getting nerfed this patch, D/D will too.
You can go full dishonestly intellectual on me but it won’t stop Anet from fixing the gimmick.
While I don’t think eles are particularly hard to play, I have an extremely hard time believing a clicker is successfully pvping with one. That’s a lot of extra buttons to be moving the mouse around to click on.
Which weapon are you using?
That idea of f2p spvp is a pretty neat one.
Traversing large amounts of extra empty space doesn’t really sound like it would increase the quality of gameplay to me.
If you want you can simulate having a larger WvW zone. When you’re running from one tower to another, every 5 seconds just stop and stand still for 5 seconds, repeat. If that’s not thrilling enough for you stand still for however many extra seconds it takes for you to start liking it.
This would make for really bad gameplay with people clumping up in such massive zergs to steamroll a map that things could never be defended again.
Depends how strong the other ones are.
Like increased ballista damage. Well how much? What if you maxxed it out and you did double damage on ballistas? It’d be worth taking then. You’d go out of your way to tote around ballista blueprints and use them often.
I would think Mesmer would win any ranged DPS race if the fight lasts long enough for them to have 3 phantasms out for a while.
Expect people to need to be carried by aegis the duration of the game.
When a group doesn’t have guardians, there ends up being on average 2 people in the group that just can’t even come close to handling it. They die to the easiest stuff because they never learned (and they won’t) to avoid stuff.
I wish aegis was removed entirely. Not even because I think guardians are OP or anything. I’m just sick of other players NEEDING it.
This applies especially to people who think they play on some sort of higher level because they do guild groups, when far more often than it should it tends to just boil down to “I make sure I always get to be carried by aegis”.
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I got my legendary weapon and shiny back piece and other stuff.
Whats next?suggestions?
1. Get the legendary(ies) for your off weapon. I see warrior so I’m assuming you just got the greatsword.
2. Prepare a second set of ascended gear with an alternate stat layout. Maybe something other than tanky vs berserker, so you have an excuse to switch your traits around more for something different if you want or even for different weapons. A condition damage set or something, whatever’s different.
3. Got the WvW update coming here in 3 days, will have the WvW rank to work on. Might be another ascended item or two added in the update.
4. Could work on clearing some achievements you haven’t yet.
I’m working on 1 and 2 atm.
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For how much people complain about the game forcing them to pvp, I sure wish I was forced more.
I’ve been wanting a reason to WvW more and the game hardly gives you jack for doing so.
The WvW exploration and 500 badges are trivial time sinks. You’re quickly done with them and then there’s no real reason to go to WvW again.
Give it 2 minutes of thought. I’m sure you can come up with something that you can remember which no one has used before.
You’ll be fine.
Mine rarely works. It has tens of thousands of entries, usually just says “no results”
Once in a while if I’ve been logged in for a few hours I can get it to load.
I’d like it too. Just have your story reset to the beginning if you change race.
I don’t know a single person who even thought about buying an accessory with laurels. What an awful way to get them… Most people have their accessories from Guild missions at this point. At least anyone who has been consistent enough to have 40 laurels.
“Most People”?
I’m in a 400+ guild, and we’ve been doing bounties every week since they started. I have 8 commendations, which is the max you can have right now if you only have bounties unlocked. Accessories cost 12 commendations. To get more commendations, you need to unlock Treks and then Rushes, for a considerable amount of merits. That means successfully completing the Tier 3 bounties each week, and building everything extremely fast.
That seems like a feat that not many guilds could have achieved already.
Yeah personally I bought one accessory with laurels already. The other one I’ll get with guild comms.
One thing I definitely agree on is normalizing base hps and armor across the professions.
Then tweak some numbers/utilities/traits accordingly.
Like you might say “But if warriors and thieves were left as they are, but thieves got a bunch of extra hps and armor, why would someone play a warrior?” Warriors could get x desirable stuff added to them. Maybe they’re better at clearing conditions than they are now and they get more sustainability in healing etc. Necros (the other high hp class currently) might just outright get more damage or something.
The Warrior’s current weakness is condition removal and mobility. If you provide the Warrior with ANY of these 2 things; it throws balance off a cliff.
If base health and armor were normalized then yes I agree, Warriors would require mobility and condition removal. The Thief would still have stealth. Stealth is what Thieves use to remove conditions and be mobile.
Well that was the point. If health and armor were normalized.
I’m not sure why people think playing the TP has to be some thing you do at the exclusion of all else.
You can play the game AND play the TP. It isn’t necessary to stand at the TP all day babysitting orders/posting as soon as possible.
I usually logout at the TP. I login, place some orders and put some stuff up for sale, then go play.
Sure go for it. Hopefully eventually they make it so you can actually tell someone is using one from more than 5 feet away though.
I think they’re funny too. It’s like “Yeah, I’m so loaded I have UNDERWATER legendaries”. hehe. In fact get both of them. “Oh don’t care for that one? Well I’ll just switch to my OTHER underwater legendary. Oh, you don’t have any legendaries period? Well just keep at it!” =P
I also want a really prestigious hard to get/expensive aquabreather skin. Same deal.
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While I don’t think dungeons are “Too hard” I certainly don’t have a problem with more variety in difficulty between what’s available, adding a tier of difficulty below explorable with some reward (but maybe less than exp mode) and so on.
I’m looking forward to the WvW stuff. I haven’t played WvW quite as much as I want to just due to the feeling that I wasn’t accomplishing much.
One thing I definitely agree on is normalizing base hps and armor across the professions.
Then tweak some numbers/utilities/traits accordingly.
Like you might say “But if warriors and thieves were left as they are, but thieves got a bunch of extra hps and armor, why would someone play a warrior?” Warriors could get x desirable stuff added to them. Maybe they’re better at clearing conditions than they are now and they get more sustainability in healing etc. Necros (the other high hp class currently) might just outright get more damage or something.
Not too bad.
You can get some influence together towards doing them yourselves, and in the meantime you can do what I’ve already been doing, using gw2lfg.com to join random guilds to help with their bounties temporarily (and get the 2 comms that way).
Big guilds still have the advantage obviously, but small guilds got a little something to build some influence at least. It’s something.
As I’ve suggested many times, Base attunement recharge should be 12 seconds instead of 15…with 30 in arcane still taking it down to 9 as it does now.
Still desirable to go arcane, still worth doing, but no longer crippling to not do so.
Here’s something sad. If this wasn’t fixed and was deemed completely legal, tornado still wouldn’t be very good.
Eles trend towards bunker because they have low hps, weak armor, and very little in the way of evasive mechanics built into their weapons. Arguable if you want to call RTL an “evasive mechanic”, I guess you could. That’s more just deciding “I don’t want to fight” rather than using a move to avoid an attack and continue on. Talking stuff like mesmer sword 2, thief dual dagger 3, ranger greatsword 1 evade and that kind of thing. The kind of stuff you can use as a “skillshot” to stay in the fight while still evading outside of your limited dodges.
As such all survivability must come from active choices in the trait and utility selection.
I take issue with a lot of things about the ele profession, but doing a lot of work with them is the main appeal to eles funwise, for me anyway.
Other professions are a snooze festival, including engineers.
I don’t really understand why thieves should be able to both be more mobile AND do more damage.
What’s the point of the ele then? Just standing near people switching attunements so they get the boons? heh.
Celestial stats have a place for ele but I don’t recommend filling all your slots with them.
I like it for the two ring slots because it’s easy to get multiple types of ascended rings.
More of eles healing comes from the attunement switch to water, the regens from doing so, the evasive arcana water roll, soothing mist etc, then from any of the 1-5 weapon skills and it isn’t even close.
For anyone using signet of restoration, D/D also heals more than the staff with that too due to faster attacks.
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10 point arcane, elemental attunement.
The trait that holds the entire profession together.
Should be a baseline ability.
If you switch from a thief to an ele you’re going to miss the mobility. At a distance you might think eles fly all over the place from point a to point b, but there’s a bigger difference between the two in speed than you think, particularly after the RTL change.
I like the wvw monthly just because it’s usually one of the quicker ones to complete.
Course just having choices would be nice, like the daily.
What keeps me from playing a lot of spvp isn’t the normalized gear (one of the best things about it actually), it’s just the lack of variety in gameplay.
After I play a couple games, I don’t really feel like playing another one. Not because of the rewards given for winning, but just because the gameplay experience itself is quite shallow. Seems like the majority of depth in gameplay regarding getting better is more just knowing where to be at what time than anything else. While there are certainly some nuances to learn in the actual combat, I feel like there isn’t enough to it. Once I know what I’m doing with a profession, which doesn’t take long, there doesn’t seem to be much to get better at and it’s more just about being at the right place location wise. This is made worse by the lack of build variety in many professions, further reducing your opportunities to try new things and learn them. Sure you can try weird stuff, but it becomes pretty clear what’s worth taking and what isn’t before long.
It’s good to have coordination with your team be a facet of gameplay, it certainly should be. But it’s kinda dull when it’s SUCH a large facet of success. Sometimes I feel like if I just had a good AI bot that played my profession, I could get far too much of the full experience of spvp by just clicking spots on the map occasionally to tell it to go there next.
I’d like to see more of a balance between where you should be and what you actually do when there contributing to success.
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I’ve come to really like the 15% system, with 5% on the list and 10% on the sale.
As for the main reason why it’s not 15% on the sale and is 5/10 instead. It’s just so we don’t have to engage in a monotonous activity of listing/relisting anything of value 50 times while our 20 competitors remove their listings at no cost and put them back up at the lowest price.
I completely understand why it’s 5/10…..and I’m NOT talking about moving everything to the back end for all trades…..ONLY when filling an existing buy order….a GUARANTEED sale. Not a sell listing. Not something that could be abused by putting up a listing for free, then pulling it later to abuse or manipulate the market.
This has obviously become far too difficult of a concept to explain, or people aren’t actually reading the posts.
Since it seems the concept is too difficult, I retract my opinion as it would obviously cause an insane amount of confusion when selling items on the TP if Anet were to actually implement such as system.
Thank you to those that understood my idea and were able to discuss it effectively.
Was responding to general concepts. You weren’t the only person that posted here.
As for why having the 5% listing fee still apply to directly filling buy orders, it’s necessary to keep inflation from arising.
As for why having a 5/10 concept apply to buy orders instead of a flat 15% on directly filling buy orders, I’d have no problem with it being just a flat 15% off the top in those cases. What you posted above regarding people not having the money on hand but wanting to fill an existing buy order and have 15% taken out of it that way, I think would be fine.
I don’t think it’s really a big deal and shouldn’t affect people much whether it’s 5/10 on filling buy orders or a flat 15% (Never has affected me), I don’t see any reason why it can’t be 15 instead of 5/10 when filling buy orders.
Basically, I agree with you.
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I’ve come to really like the 15% system, with 5% on the list and 10% on the sale.
As for the main reason why it’s not 15% on the sale and is 5/10 instead. It’s just so we don’t have to engage in a monotonous activity of listing/relisting anything of value 50 times while our 20 competitors remove their listings at no cost and put them back up at the lowest price.
For every one time the listing fee has kitten you off, you’d be kitten off 200 times having to relist things, if there was no listing fee.
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While there’s probably no feasible way to make this work out in practice, it would definitely be a lot of fun (and a way to make some money!) if the flaws in the concept could be worked out.
Yeah I think I’m going to wait for this next patch, and then just buy it no matter what happens to the price. I can only wait for so long…
It’s iffy now. I made a post above mentioning they’re cheaper due to lower cost of ectos. Since that post they announced a change to dragon chests which caused ecto prices to go up a fair bit.
Precursor prices may not go back down now. There’s no real reason for precursor prices to go UP by any meaningful amount, as after all ectos are still cheaper today than they were pre dragon chests.
Waiting for the patch is fine. Unless there’s something in there directly related to precursors though, what you see today is probably about what you’ll see in a week though. Course there’s always surprises in the patches, you could end up seeing randomly in the patch notes “slightly increased chances to get precursors from the MF” again or something.
Prices going up had almost nothing to do with the people using ectos for accessories.
It’s not coincidence the price happened to start going up significantly as soon as the change to the dragon chests was announced.
I heard the news and bought a few hundred ectos (Not even to resell, just cuz I know I’ll use ectos for something again). How many others do you think did the same? Then add on people speculating to resell?
For every 15 seconds you’re standing in the defending circle AND IN COMBAT. +1 glory.
Wouldn’t balance everything but it’d be good enough.
I play both tpvp and hotjoin, I like both.
Hotjoin is more chaotic, more people on the teams, sometimes more fun because of it.
Nice thing about hotjoin is the quick entry into the game, instead of waiting in the tpvp queue and then sitting out the 2 minute wait before it starts besides
Other times I like the 5 v 5 tourney format and do the solo tpvp queue, that’s fun sometimes too.
Doing just one or the other is pointlessly limited in a pvp format that is already limited enough since it’s based on controlling these little circles.
What you get for playing longer, is better skills as a player.
Think of Guild Wars 2 as chess. They provide you with the pieces, but you have to play the game. You can’t cheat by getting an extra queen simply for having played 2 years longer than your opponent. That’s just not how the game works.
Ha, shows what you know. I’ve been grinding chess for years and am up to 7 rooks, 12 pawns, and once I hit 50 last week my queen can now move like a knight too.
If I’m somehow checkmated anyway my king can self ress once, become immune to check for the next 20 turns and revives the other pieces (I maxxed out the healing tree)
Thinking of doing a respec so my bishops can jump over pieces again.
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This is guild wars 2, it isn’t hard to do anything.
Eles have a little lower skill floor and take a little practice to get rolling. Any experienced player (Or even someone new to MMOs that just puts in a little time) won’t have any problem using one though.
I wouldn’t buy one right now. They’re likely to go back down again shortly, as they’ve risen back up to about what they cost a month ago pre dragon event/chest change.
Let people make another round of dusks with the currently cheap rares/ectos in the MF for you.
If you have other stuff to do for your legendary, work on that stuff for now.
it’s a bit complicated so stay with me. you buy something and then you sell it for more than you bought it for.
What? GET OUT OF TOWN!