Guild Wars 2

Not a single one after 60+ farmed crates opened.

eric.8203:

just spent about 146g couple hours ago on rare greatswords was hoping to get either 2 dusks and/or dawns or at least 1 of ea but i knew going in i would just be lucky to get my dusk lol well i ended up i would say 22-27 exotics maybe a little more this was well over 200+raresand by the heavens i ended up with 1 dusk by throwing everything in there and saying please 30x the amount of rares given back was insane and ended up getting it with the exotics and i got so many dhuumsouls like 4-5 lol actually think ended up getting it on my very last chance with 1 exotic and 2 rares left

Oh boy, you should try to use punctuation.

Patchs tend to happen on tuesdays so I’m more inclined to think it’s gonna be today but I could totally be wrong about it. We’ll see it soon enough anyway.

Maybe they are working on something more elaborate to solve definitely the CoF1 issue, maybe not. In any case, it doesn’t prevent them from doing a quick fix such as a temporary hard cap on CoF1 rewards that will stop the gold flow that is currently happening.

Well we can’t reasonably say we didn’t see it coming. This place was obviously broken and expecting Anet to do nothing about it is just stupid. Personally I don’t really care, I’ve farmed more than my weight in gold there but I fell bad for players who just heard about this spot and didn’t have time to get their share.
But, well, we all know people will move on and find another spot. Are the sharks profitable ? Sure they are so are barracudas and other spots in SC. We don’t really need to know how many scales Vayne got from them, RNG is RNG.

The real issue with all these farm nerves (Union, lyssa, Sc etc..) is not the fact they are nerfed, honestly they should be, it is that they don’t freaking nerf CoF1.
Seriously, it’s been months people are getting huge amount of money out of nowhere from CoF path 1 and they still haven’t do anything about it. And that’s not like CoF1 would fit exactly Jon Peter’s description of what is abusive, let me quote it for you again :

JonPeters.5630:

It would be bad for everyone if, for example, a group of players learned how to speed-clear a dungeon in 5 minutes, with full rewards each time, and then repeated that continuously. When one activity emerges that’s order of magnitudes more profitable than anything else in the game, it forces everyone to either engage in that activity or get priced out of the economy

How long is a CoF p1 with 4 W 1 M ? 4 minutes ? oh well…

1) A Better rewarding system for PvP.
I feel like the increasing rewards you gain with levels are not in line with the comitment : in PvE if I want a t3 racial armor, I can grind for a couple of weeks and I’ll get it, in PvP I won’t get even close to it after months of playing only PvP. Not to mention you can’t even have any legendary.
I’m not asking to change the way you increase your rank in PvP, I find it fine as it is: it provides a long term goal for PvP as Gw1 HoH titles did. However, the fact that you tie some rewards with it is really problematic. Also, there should be a way to gain an income by playing PvP like there was in Gw1 with zaishen Keys, currently minus the few dies you get there’s litterally no way to earn money in PvP.

2) Fix the leaderboard/matchmaking.
The leaderboard system is a joke, players with like 10 gamesp layed and an average W/L ratio are way above others with 500+ wins in tourney with high W/L ? You should add a decay or a inactive status (if you don’t play a match for X days/weeks your status becomes inactive and you get removed from the leaderboard, after Y matchs played you can reenter the leaderboards with your previous stats saved) or even use a ELO system similar to LoL.
About matchmaking… well I guess I don’t have to elaborate a lot on this, there’s already enough rage post about how unfair it is. Facing a premade team of r50+ when you get allied with a PUG of r1-10 shoudln’t be possible.

3) New game modes. Obviously, I don’t realisticly see it coming soon, but you should totally think about it because people will get bored fast of conquest. Even modes not that hard to implement such as deathmatch or king of the hill would do (you could even use a revamp version of the current maps)

Orpheal, your whole post can be summarized as “Pve and sPvP fine but WvW…”. You’re obviously a WvW player and your opinion is very biased about conditions.

Saying PvE and sPvPconditions are fine is lackluster at best. In sPvP, conditions build are among the best ones around, however the issue here isn’t really the conditions themselves but how the various professions can get rid of them, some having next to zero reliable condition removal. I won’t elaborate here more about it, you can check the sPvP forum there’s a ton of threads dealing with conditions issues in PvP.
In PvE, conditions builds will ALWAYS be inferior to DD builds due to the way GW2 caps conditions. Again, there’s a TON of topics on the forum about it and I recommend you to read them. It won’t cause any problem in solo or small group play, but for group event, world bosses or even dungeons you reach way too fast the cap of bleeding so that you start losing potential damages. I’m not even talking about poison or burning : you won’t deal any damage by poison to a world boss because of the duration stacking.

Unfortunately, unless they fix the way the game handle conditions overall, I don’t see any improvements on conditions coming soon so you should try to get used to it.

It’s been discussed already in the “Account Issues” section of the forums. And you should remove the links from your post, people might click them.

Nice one JustTrogdor, I laughed so hard I was in tears .

There are 4 bridges that I can think of that are being attacked/blown up then repaired :

- the one in Snowden drift atop the frozen sweeps
- the one in Kessex Hills, west of greyhoof meadows
- the one in Diessa plateau in Breachwater Lake
- the one in Lornar’s Pass west of winterhaw Snowfield

However I do think the one showed in the manifesto isn’t in the game (it was attacked by centaurs and didn’t look like the kessex hill’s) but has been used as a baseline for the several bridge events.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

I understand sample size, tyvm. I also understand to quit when I’m ahead, rather than get deeper in the hole.

Now then. Could you please stop being a fanboy? Seriously. Please? Thank you.

If you really did, you wouldn’t be here complaining about how miserable you are after recycling SIX golds. Grab a thousand more and I might take you seriously.

About me being a fanboy, check my previous messages in various threads and tell me again I’m a fanboy. Kids nowadays…

I doubt it, they are listed as available for a limited time in the gemstore, but who knows ?

On one hand, you can’t really get any conclusion with so short samples : 7 or 8 rares are peanuts and prove nothing.

On the other hand, it seems there’s actually an issue with gold recycling and it’s being investigated upon.

Zanshin.5379:

You’re the kind of person that if you find a wallet full of money, with an ID, you’d just take the money and throw the wallet away, right?

It’s the duty of the dev to make sure everything works correctly.
But it’s also the duty of the player to report anything that doesn’t seem to work correctly.

Naaaaaaaah. He’ll take the money, throw the wallet away then use the ID to find his house and burgle it.

That’s not true, the part of the temporary content that give them an income through gem selling are the temporary items (particularly the RNG ones) in the Gemstore.
It has nothing to do with the temporary content the OP was talking about which is mainly dungeons or instanced missions which have all been free so far.

Yep, if you want to invest on something you should invest on Kasmeer.
Even if the reef rider is only available for one week or so, its drop rate is ridiculously high, and given the fact SSC is a farm fest presently there should be a sufficient supply to match the demand for a while. Especially because I don’t see the demand for a reef rider being very high, Kasmeer on the other hand…

If they release mini pet battle (in Lion arch) or something similar, it would be a different story

If you want the light foot achievement try to find a spot with a land mine (the ones activated by skill 2) and close to a wall. Such a spot can be found at the very entrance to the final room. Lure canach to this spot, get close to the wall so that if he KD you, you won’t go into any mine.

Don’t stay in the range of the mine so that if he decides to detonate thhem you won’t be hurt and just move between your spot and the mine to damage him.

Agreed. Given they tune them a bit to put the length/difficulty in line with other fractals to avoid them from being systematically skipped (especially MF) or chosen (canach’s lair).

It is in line with the way you gained rank in HoH in GW1. It is a long time goal and you’re not expected to reach rank 80 in a week , a month (or even a year).

If you’re a PvP only player, once you’ve reached the maximum rank there’s no further progression possible. In PvE you can level alts, working on your legendaries, increase your fractals levels or whatever you feel like to do but it’d be silly to be left without any long term goal in PvP after such a short amount of time.

I think they should keep the rank system the way it is but change the way items are tied to said rank. I mean, common, you can buy a T3 armor in PvE after a couple of week of farming but you have to wait a couple of year of non stop pvp to get the same armor ? And there’s still no legendaries available for pvpers and that’s not like you could buy one with the amount of gold you gain in PvP…

I think the rank system is fine where it is but the reward system is not.

Yep , it’s definitly a step in the right direction and now we don’t feel cheated for using this over a regular sickle. There’s still three slight improvements that I think they should consider :

- Remove the delay before the water flow animation shows up so that it starts flowing as soon as you start gathering. Of course, fix the sound accordingly.
- Reduce the size of the sickle so that it matchs the size of a regular sickle and not an oversized scythe (I ‘m trying to gather some onions, not to chop down a forest^^).
- Increase the size of the water/vines animation (similarly to the mining pick’s one). Presently, it is barely noticeable (especially the vines).

61-70 Necromancer
80 : Ranger & Warrior

Who farms karka anymore anyway ?

Skelks are the way to go

What Korsbaek is trying to explain is that statistically speaking the chances to get a precursor is the same whether it is your first try or your 1000th but the chance for you to get no precursor in 10 tries is higher than in 1000 tries simply because of the cumulative probabilities and the large number law.

Overall I agree, I’ve found the whole FF story was a bit long to settle but the final was astonishing, I really wish they put the MF in fractal one day.

On the other hand, these “dungeons” have proven a bit disappointing for several reasons :

- The mine mechanic, while being interesting and fun, is a bit overused and remove any real skill challenge from the player.
- The story teeling fell short of expectations. I mean, it seems like this instance popped out of nowhere. Most lore in SSC was given through spoilers in achievements or in item descriptions and if you don’t read the blog you probably never heard of Canach’s involvement in the storyline. Moreover, the storytelling in the dungeons is also disapointing : we get only a couple of lines of dialog, Kiel doesn’t even bother joining us in the hunt (she’s like : “Canach is over there, go get him while I sit here watching this beautiful wall and waiting for you to return to get all the credit”) and the explorable version doesn’t provide a single bit of explanation of why this golem is here and what happens after.
- Let’s be realistic, this dungeon isn’t really a dungeon. It takes as much time to finish as Cragstead or the Hatchery but it’s nowhere close to MF, regular dungeons paths or even fractals. You’d have called it “Instanced story” or anything else, people would have been fine with it but you can’t reasonably call it a dungeon. There’s like one big room with a boss, most personal story instances are longer than that.

Did the Light Foot achievement with my ranger without any trouble, if your pet steps on a trap it doesn’t nullify the achievement (only if YOU step on one or if you take damage by one triggered by your pet).

Put your pet on passive and enjoy your invulnerability (Canach can’t outdamage your downed state 3rd skill).

Did it as a ranger and my pet triggered a couple of traps and I still got the achievement. As long as you don’t get affected by the trap your pet triggers I think you’ll be fine.

Did both the solo and the exp before the patch and got no rewards

RNG.

/15 char lim

Nop he’s right, when Sorrow’s Furnace was first released there weren’t any minnion cap at this time. As long as you could keep them alive you could keep spawning new ones ad vitum eternam, that’s why minnion master were all monk as secondary, to use aoe heal.
If I remember well, the standart farming party was made of one of these lovely MM, a warrior , an elementalist and a monk to keep everyone alive.

Good ol’ times

PS : needless to mention using verata’s skills at this stage equaled comitting suicide.

My guild had some trouble defeating him, often resulting in the failure of the bounty. Then we decided to go full melee against him, everyone in close combat spamming aoe and Komali’s health goes down really fast. Now it’s a piece of cake to defeat him.

Having a scavenger hunt in the lineof the one we got in GW1 for the Black Moa chick would be amazing ( but recquiring more difficult tasks ofc).

Yep , I’ve noticed that too. However it seems this limitation is shorter than one day as I’ve been able to gather again within a few hours interval.

Deamhan.9538:

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

CrazyDuck.4610:

Minos I understand this but they should add an option to allow real gear or not in the dueling arenas.

clearly you don’t understand. If an opponent with “real” gear goes up against an opponent who doesn’t have the same access to that “real” gear the match will be unfair.

If things were the way you wanted them then GW2 would just be another gear to win game instead of an actual skill game.

Welcome to WvW where you fight with your pve gear. Oh and everyone does have the same access to that gear. There is nothing stopping anyone from getting the top gear other than time. Shouldn’t time invested grant that person some sort of advantage over someone who hasn’t invested as much? I would think so. Even if they both have enough time in to have the top gear, the person with more time in will (or at least ‘should’) have more experience.

Yes, and it should stay this way .
A duel is about finding who is the best, not who has the better gear or who has invested more time into this game and this cannot happens in WvW or any area in the game where PvE gears are available.
That’s why duels are fine where they belong : in sPvP.

Fumbler.1384:

I’ve noticed in the past day or two that the overall chance to receive ANY kind of loot from creatures has dropped (or at least the skelks that i’ve been farming). I’ve been taking on 4 and 5 skelks at a time (solo) and not getting any of them to drop loot. Four days ago, the average drop percentage for any kind of loot was probably about 70-80%. In the last day or two it’s been about 40-50% if that.

Probably DR. Did you try to to something else between 2 farming sessions ?

Before anything else, you need to know that fractals take place in the Myst wich is a place where both past, present and future are mixed up meaning for some fractals (grawl’s, dredge’s, swamp and water particularly) we don’t know if the events have already happened or are/will be happening.

It seems like the Myst aren’t also limited to our version of reality, given the fact we know for sure that the Charr’s one is in fact an alternative version of the searing so doesn’t relate the events of the Searing the exact same way it happens.

For the uncategorized one, we have no clue when it takes place even if the environment might suggest a ruined version of Rata Sum, in this case it’d be happening either in the future or in an alternative universe.

Lastly, it has been stated by ArenaNet that the colossus fractal is taking place at the very begining of humanity presence in Tyria (if I remember well, it should be approximatively around 2000 BE even if the date isn’t accurate and might vary depending of the source, you should ask Konig for a more accurate answer on this).

What entity exactly is the colossus and whether or not it once lived in Tyria or only resides in the Mysts are unanswered questions.

zerorogue.9410:

Although I’m sure a few out there will probably hate this idea. One thing I thought about for a precursor hunt is an item called “Gift of the Precursor”

Gift of the Precursor
25 laurels
This + alll 3 other gifts for a legendary create the precursor to that legendary.
So For example:
Gift of the Precursor + Gift of The Bifrost +Gift of Mastery + Gift of Fortune = The Legend
Yeah I know expensive but maybe it can be changed to make it easier.

So to sum it up, all you suggest is more farm…

I’m more into a scavenger hunt in the ways some people here have already proposed : forcing you to explore in depths every parts of the game (dungeons, events, JPs, WvW, sPvP) plus some riddles to solve.

If you want the duels to be a matter of skills and not reflects how rich you are, you have to put the two opponent on an equal state gear-side (and get rid of food buffs).
That’s what sPvP is for. Now, you’re right : the limited gear available doesn’t provide as much possibilities as PvE sets do, however I still prefer that against a flawed duel where someone using gold/exotic faces a full ascended + food buff opponent.

Zaxares.5419:

Minos.3450:

No, I think the fact the precursors are (slightly) diminushing in prices because of Colin’s recent post on precursors. He stated they are still working on a scavenging hunt while most players were thinking this idea was over.

Eh? Where was this post? Can I get a link to it?

Sure, here you go : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/New-Legendaries-Rework/first#post2074359

Really nice finding Gypsy ! Ty for the link.

The 4th pic heavy armor and the bladed glove weapon are especially awesome.

I can’t agree more. Try this : farm for one hour then do something else (world bosses, dungeons, crab toss, pvp, even instigator events if you really wanna farm…) for a while before returning to farm.

Rinse and repeat.

Ensign.2189:

The materials used to craft precursors are dropping in price and more people are hitting the threshold where they can craft them reliably. Of course prices will drop in line with that.

As Vox stated, if anything it would increases the price of precursors and by no mean decreases it. If more and more players get the necessary component and face the precursor wall, it means the demand for precursor is increasing while the supply is still the same → it leads to the prices rising up.

No, I think the fact the precursors are (slightly) diminushing in prices because of Colin’s recent post on precursors. He stated they are still working on a scavenging hunt while most players were thinking this idea was over.
In case of a scavenging hunt giving away precursors, we’d see a huge decrease in prices of said precursors so probably some people are freaking out and want to sell them before it is released.
Of course, it is only speculation.

Why ? So that you can show to the world how great and amazing you are ?

I don’t understand this need for recognition, what are you expecting ? People giving you a standing ovation and throwing you flowers ?

PS : I don’t say this by jealousy, I got this achievement already (by playing Crab Toss normally) and don’t feel the urge to make the world know about this.

Personal satisfaction.

Osi.3504:

Bubi.7942:

Minos.3450:

Bubi.7942:

Minos.3450:

Or you can stay down on the beach and farm skelks. 10-15g/ hour if you sell your mats

I find 10-15g / hour a bit hard to believe (granted I don’t sell t6).

Average loot from 1 hour skelk farming is ~20 powerful blood (5g) ~20 vicious fang (3g)
50 potent blood (50s) , 50 large fangs (50s)
~ 50 s from grey/white/blue/green + 5 golds + 2 crates.

Hm, sounds reasonable after all. So you recommend the same route as in the video?

No, just farm the beach where he starts his grind in the video, the coast there below the WP. They spawn quickly to just do big loops on the beach and kill the nest when your waiting for the respawns.

This. Don’t bother following the whole route, there’s enough people farming on the coast below the asura gate.

Bubi.7942:

Minos.3450:

Or you can stay down on the beach and farm skelks. 10-15g/ hour if you sell your mats

I find 10-15g / hour a bit hard to believe (granted I don’t sell t6).

Average loot from 1 hour skelk farming is ~20 powerful blood (5g) ~20 vicious fang (3g)
50 potent blood (50s) , 50 large fangs (50s)
~ 50 s from grey/white/blue/green + 5 golds + 2 crates.

Or you can stay down on the beach and farm skelks. 10-15g/ hour if you sell your mats

Do the counting, Crab Toss has been added IN ADDITION to the regular dailies so it doesn’t take ANY space. (There’s currently 11 daily achievements instead of 10)

Ungood.3054:

As long as it gives the same rewards as “Normal” content, fine, do whatever.

People needs an incentive to do stuff, as it has been shown to us countless times. A carrot such as lvl 80 exotics, T6 mats and a precursor at the very end, as mentioned by the OP, would totally do it.
Given the issue with precursor prices, it would be a nice fix (a lot better than most propositions we can see around, that are just trivializing the precursors).

To answer to the OP, I think it’s a fantastic idea and I hope it’ll be one day implemented.
However, I don’t think it is healthy for the game to create such a thing so soon in the game’s life. Implementing hard mode before releasing any expansions/ news dungeons/new maps would set a new norm for the difficulty for future release that might not be wished by Anet (given the casual-players friendly orientations of the game).
So, reasonably I don’t think it is imaginable/desirable to have such a feature so early but I do think it would be a formidable feature, if done correctly, in a couple of years.

Sebulon.7683:

I’m glad we’ll see more lady Kasmeer in future. <3

Well I can’t imagine seeing more of her unless the game becomes rated 18+ ^^

Lokheit.7943:

Let’s remember that Asura first killed and experimented with Sylvari the first time they met (though I think that was an Inquest so all theories about that rogue Largos might be possible at the same time).

Nah, he (Malomedies, one of the firstborns) was indeed experimented on but wasn’t killed. He’s still alive, you can find him in the Grove.
And I don’t remember being said it was the inquest who did the experiments. Most Asuras don’t disregard mistreating other species they consider as ‘inferior’ (like how they experiment on skritts or ettins whithout their consent) and not only Inquest’s.