Guild Wars 2

Angus.7460:

Will this be an issue when chucking it back into the toilet to make the legendary?

Thanks!

I don’t know for sure but if I were you I wouldn’t try it.

Vayne.8563:

In the process they might lose some players who don’t appreciate it, and that’s okay. There are a whole lot of people running around Southsun Cove these days. And before that, there were a whole lot of people running around in Diessa Plateau and Wayfarer Foothills.

They run around mostly because of the instigator events and +200%MF/gold buff.
I, myself, consider living story good addition, but it shouldn’t be focus for the developers… I finished SouthSun events, achievements (even crabtacular) in 2 days and what I am supposed to do the rest of the time? Farming karka all the time isn’t that fun after a while. I would like some content which is spread across the whole Map, so i can choose my favourite zone and help Tyria there. I don’t think that bringing the whole player base into one zone, leaving the other 98% zones empty, is the right decision for this game. Yesterday, I went to the zone where Durmand Priory has its HQ (forgot the name of the zone) and it was so beautiful and I felt sad that nobody goes there just because they have no reason…

What I would like to see in GW2 is HARD MODE version of all the zones in the game, adjusted for level 80 players or more strict scaling down system for level 80 players but with only high end drops of equipment and material. Now, when level 80 player come to some low or middle level zone, he gets T1/2/3/4 mats and low level equipment… it is not rewarding, hence almost nobody comes there and in addition to this, it is not challenging at all. Maybe I get scaled down from 80 to 15, but when I am able to solo some champion, something is really wrong.

I decided to go back to Lineage II Interlude private server for the summer. There at least when I try to farm mats for some craft, I know exactly where I can farm it and how and it is actually fun. In GW2 everything I do besides CoF is the wrong way of farming… and I am exhausted by this fact.

Yeah, another anti-farming intervention. Anet, you really know how to fix things instead of banning bots, you just reduce their income (and everyone’s else who didn’t done anything wrong).

Is it really true?! I have to check it out right away!

Lack of guild halls is really sad. All older MMOs had it, even GW1! I am in the guild of 200 people and I know only the leader. It is really hard to find some friends when ou can’t see their characters… chat is not enough.

Vol.5241:

I really don’t recommend selling karma. Karma is actually pretty hard to get. It just doesn’t seem that way because you often don’t spend it and it accumulates rather slowly.

Imagine you spend 1.5 million karma and then Arenanet releases a bunch of new karma items that are valuable? It’s gonna be hard to get that karma in a reasonable time frame (especially since Plinx farm was nerfed a long time ago)

On a side note, it’s very efficient to save the karma from the jugs. Karma itself is not transferrable between characters but the jugs are. They are pretty cheap solutions for armor if you decide to craft-level a new character to 80 and want lvl 80 exotic gear.

I don’t play alts, got bored with every each of them after few levels.. Besides my main beloved guardian I have 34 warrior, 57 engineer and I don’t really feel like leveling them. And if some new karma items come out..well, I am not kind of person who has to have everything new from the day 1. So I pretty much knew why i spend all my jugs and experimented with it.

Vol.5241:

I run in full MF since November or so…160% to 218%

Dusk
Near shelter’s gate infront of the champion guarding the skillpoint. I was doing the Jofast escort quest. Got it around December

The Legend
Farming Union WP. Got it earlier this week. http://i.imgur.com/hIHs3OJ.jpg

Funny, I get two of the most expensive precursors as drops but I have spent well over 700g on the forge – and have nothing to show for it.

I acutally think that it is not a matter of of full MF set, but rather the amount of time you spend in the game… It is obvious you spent there at least 1500 hours, I remember your posts about legendaries and now you tell us how you spent 700g on MF… You see I play since BWE1 almost everyday, run with full MF set on trashmobs since December too. But never got any precursor yet. You know why? I played twice or thrice as less as you did…. That’s the whole concept of getting precursors… you have to invest your time, not count on luck.

So, I just spent 1M karma on 24 exotic temple armors to turn them via mystic toilet into 6 sellable armors.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/vVb4IvA.jpg[/img]
My profit is something between 14-15g. In conclusion, I don’t recommend you to spend karma on armors, but rather buy orrian boxes. Guy in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arhlZAsoZO0 spent only 780K karma and got back 26g.

http://www.lineage2media.com/icarus/icarus%20dagger%20lineage%202%20media.jpg
one of my favourite dagger skins, with added particle effects it looks legendary. ArenaNet could really learn from art designers of Lineage II… there are some really beatiful piecies
Just another random google picture: http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/4356/theghost14.png Angel Slayer with probably +5 enchant on it

I did updated path 2 maybe a dozen times and I dont remember the boss regenerating. Is it new addition of the last update? If not, I guess you are just doing something wrong. If it is done properly, you won’t get any damage besides the parts when you materialize the boss to damage him. Just switch between left and right trap and keep him on ranged. If some ooze stand in the trap AOE circle, just lift it up and it quickly charge the trap. Otherwise always trigger the lifting laser first, and only if you already see that someone used the lifting laser you can use the pulling one. Quick damage boss, evade aoes and run away from him again.

McGarnagle.3607:

Why do you need to have Ascended gear at all? I haven’t got any Ascended gear on any of my characters and do absolutely fine. The only thing I can think of you’d need it for is Fractals, which is fairly self-contained (I don’t do Fractals though).

So why do people feel that they need them at all? Let alone for each aspect of the game?

Because ascended equipment gives you the slight edge over players with just exotics…

Recently, I feel really big nostalgy about GW1. I am considering to go back and do more HOM points. Now I am at 31. Would some of you join me? It would more fun in a group

I would like to have an option to target myself, so I can put target mark on me when I am downed or in other trouble. It would be great

Goldmember.4368:

Rainzar.6905:

i farmed for 1 hr once and 4, then another time 2 hrs and got 0. one time got i even got 3 within 30 mins, and then nothing for 3 hrs. sometimes using no MF other times close to 140+. the drop chance is so low thats just how it goes.

Before the Southsun event I was geting 2 per hour s I th h 160 mf. When the event started I went down to 0-1. I’m assuming the rng changed to reflect the huge increase mf in SS and anet made it a blanket nerf to the rng table. Even at 400 mf in SS my drops were sbout theb same as pre event

Am sure your asumption is false. No nerf to rng table… With 200% MF in SC it does make a big diferrence. You are just being unlucky with those lodestones…

oROEchimaru.1045:

I am new (less than 1 month). I fought my first dragon (teq?) today. What a bummer:(

1-5 fps the entire fight with intel quadcore cpu and 7850 radeon card. I turned all settings from medium to low = same fps. the recommended settings of high should not be recommended at all.

is this being addresses?
i have tried several new radeon drivers including beta with same results. even dumbed down settings same issues.

i cant recommend this game to friends who are use to this type of “event” without the lag in other games. i’d like to recommend it!

Unfortunatelly, this is the issue since day 1, but I really believe that some time in future it will go better – exactly like WvW. There were days when WvW battles were just lag fests with 14 FPS on solid systems. Now, they made better system for showing only enemy nameplates or showing only simple character models and it really worked! Now I have like 30-40 FPS in the largest battles instead of those poor 14. So I think that in time, they will do something similar with PvE, too.

What annoys me more is the fact that the large boss fights with the dragons or shadow behemoth or etc. cannot be failed. And there is no tactic involved. Yes, in early days of the Tequatl encounter, you had to destroy bone walls with the turrets, protect turrets from risen and protect and shoot mega laser on the dragon. Then, you had to kit large exploding humanoid mobs and evade poisonous AOEs —-—- now, with level 80 characters, nothing of this matters anymore. Just stand still in front of the dragon, ignore risen minions, ignore AOEs, ignore risen destroying the mega laser and just press button 1 and you get the chest.

Shatterer, Claw of Jormag, low level bosses work the same way. Dear ArenaNet developers, if you read this, please address these issues sooner than you make the new content, it would surely help to attract new players and the old ones who stopped playing because they expected this kind of PvE to be competing and enjoyable .

Try to take mobs and that spider further from Jonez. Aggro depends on the distance too, so with the longer distance from Jonez there should be lesser chance that Spider will switch his target on him. Also healing is greatly attracting aggro, so try to put more supportive skills on your skillbars rather than pure damage.

Finished solo many times

BlackWolf.8605:

im wanting to sell dusk but to get 600g for it id have to put on tp for 667g… stupid gold sink

Then don’t be so greedy even 500g is a fortune!

Robert Hrouda.1327:

I think it’s the case that there will always be clipping in one way or another When we pull it far enough off the back for it not to clip on heavy armors, people in light/medium armor have a large gap between their back and the item. We try to find the happy medium where we can appease as many as we can, but it’s not going to be perfect for everyone.
That being said, we are looking into these issues and trying to develop better systems for the back-slot items that will result in less clipping and less gaps. Certain armors will always be problematic, but we’re always looking into solutions for things like these

I know it will take too much efforts to fix these issues, but it would be greatly appreciated if ArenaNet develops some system where it automatically arranges equipment according to each specific armor. I mean, those armor textures have to have some data that can be used for computing the distance between them and weapons/backpacks, don’t they?
It really ruins the overall feeling from the game when i see those clipping issues I love to immerse into game and feel like the Tyria is real, but when I see shield half hidden in my shoulders, it is all gone.

Never experienced this issue. Speak for yourself, please.

ColinJohanson.2394:

I think it didn’t make it into today’s release notes since the fix got in so last minute, but a bug causing some of the newer bosses to scale their damage out of reasonable bounds has been fixed and will be included in today’s patch.

These bosses will now use the same damage scaling system consistent with champions in the game that scale normally.

Thank you

NinjaEd.3946:

Mortifer.2946:

Everytime I see new patch notes I know something will be screwed more as before. Anet, you should really consider making public test servers or at least hire competent people to test it. Your fight against farming is ridiculous. This is a MMO, every MMO has it.
Do you know why? The fact that you put low effort into it is maybe boring, but the actual profit for players if fun experience! You wanted to make casual game, but with every patch, you are making it more hardcore and unplayable. And for what reason? So everybody will drop their pursuit for the legendary? So more players will buy gems to buy ingame materials? I hope this is not your goal.
Your goal was to boost open world and diminish instances. Well, turn off CoF farming and boost open world farming, not destroy it. Nobody will come to open world if you do patches like this.

This post maybe sounds offensive, but I really love this game for the whole year I play it. Please listen to your community, don’t think you know better than we do. Thank you.

Some patches hardly make it hardcore, just make farming less of a chore.

Increased loot table and 1 guarunteed rare (and exotic apparently, got one today from it) from world events in exchange of farming them all day? Absolutly!

Dailies with options? Absolutly! Keep them coming!

Fixing events that are clearly producing more loot than others (spawning congestion in orr)? Necessary, all events should be rewarding people appropriatly. Why even do the temples or any pact meta events if you can sit in one spot swinging wildly to collect loot?

The bugs are the problem, not the changes. Collin even said the scaling isn’t working properly. A public test server would be smart, to work out any bugs before being released. A lot of content that gets either released or changed lately has had its share of bugs, which seems like things may not be tested properly but hey, you pay $0 for them. Not the end of the world..

I don’t know why you count some rares and laurels as farming goals… When I farm, I farm gold or material. One rare for 20s once per day doesn’t make up for the old events. I know that scaling in them is bugged, but it seems to be more bugged than working, lately. That’s what bothers me.

If they put public test server into game, I will gladly join it from time to time and help to improve this game

This is really great! But I am sure that they will never implement this…

Also please infuse Mistfire Wolf! Sure, it is beautiful skill, but not eficient enough to use it. Just make cooldown shorter to 180s and duration longer to 60s. Then it will be efficient as any other skills and it will be fun to use it again.

Everytime I see new patch notes I know something will be screwed more as before. Anet, you should really consider making public test servers or at least hire competent people to test it. Your fight against farming is ridiculous. This is a MMO, every MMO has it.
Do you know why? The fact that you put low effort into it is maybe boring, but the actual profit for players if fun experience! You wanted to make casual game, but with every patch, you are making it more hardcore and unplayable. And for what reason? So everybody will drop their pursuit for the legendary? So more players will buy gems to buy ingame materials? I hope this is not your goal.
Your goal was to boost open world and diminish instances. Well, turn off CoF farming and boost open world farming, not destroy it. Nobody will come to open world if you do patches like this.

This post maybe sounds offensive, but I really love this game for the whole year I play it. Please listen to your community, don’t think you know better than we do. Thank you.

they would be beautiful on armours!

I have just done tutorial as an asura and the battle with the big golem took like 10 seconds. That’s not very epic at all… I suggest you to increase health pool of those tutorial bosses.

It would be cool if it also kept no target when you press leaping skills which can be used for quick running away from enemies. The only solution for this is to turn of autotargeting.

I am holding down the key. It doesn’t work for skills like Leap of Faith…. nevermind

What is “lock autotarget” good for? Tooltip says that it locks autotargeting creatures. But it doesn’t work for me. It only cancel targets, but when i use for example Leap of Faith, it always autotarget nearest enemy and leap to him even when I am holding “lock autotarget” key. Is it bug or does it work as intended?

Still not fixed. Please, devs, could you do it? It would be really nice to hear hold the line shout

When I try to play in my sister’s house I never get confirmation emails. Now it is 3rd try and still nothing… This is not the first time I have this problem. Please, could you improve it somehow? What is really strange is that I got email for login into account management quite fast – in like 2 minutes and on the first try.

Well I do not think it is unfair. You know, it is not easy to win 3 matches in tournament. I tried it once with my guild and we failed all tourneys in the first round

Few days ago I bought Venom (precursor for Kraitkin) for 23g. In like 3 days later, all 24 tridents cost from 70g down to 44,5g.

Pure manipulation. Someone bought the whole stock (because with prices around 25g it is no problem) and resold them for almost twice the old price.

I was stupid that I did not buy more of them, but lucky that I have at least one so cheaply.

I love you Anet! You made WvW finally playable I have phenom II X4 and radeon hd 6850 and before the patch I had like 9-13 FPS in the largest zergs even when culling turned off the most of the players. Now I have 22+ (usually around 30) FPS in the largest zergs It is just wonderful.

Clarification to others: this FPS boost works only if you put lowest option on the limit of rendering players (to see only nameplates in huge fights). But it is still better than before.

Arenanet, please extend the duration. It is only fair.

roachsrealm.9284:

anyone know if the quickness change did anything to Tome of Wrath skill 4?

It is still the same… no buff of duration for quickness.

I am completely with Knight. Meta events are just farm places for rares. Really poor design – this is not living world we are able to alter as it was promised in the manifesto.

I agree with you, Sinifair. But, unfortunately, this game is created for young players and families. So if you want serious mmo, you have to find some other.

Kasama.8941:

If your professions is bad at underwater combat, I wouldn’t make a legendary underwater weapon. It would be really embarrassing if, when you finally got to fight underwater, you had to run away every time.

Guardian is great underwater

Big Boss.7902:

I’m actually in the same boat as you. I really really like that weapon, but it’s a lot of mats and I won’t see it very often. However I did buy venom for it a month ago. None of the other legendaries really take my fancy apart from twilight – which i have most of the mats for.
So my current thinking is I’ll hold on to the precurser and build it once I get a legendary for use on land, because that won’t seem like such a waste to me for some reason.

Good advice, thank you.

Daemon.4295:

I’ve never seen an underwater legendary, I imagine very few people actually have one. At least you’d be one of the few!

That is one of the positives

It really would!
I guess you are right. And by the time Anet implement scavenger hunt, I can have another set of gifts for my Sunrise, so I will just need to get the precursor from the hunt.

Putting valuable swords into MF feels really strange for me. I did it yesterday and it felt like I have been playing all day for nothing. And buying it from TP for 580g would mean to be saving gold for another year (with my rate of earning gold).

What do you think? Would I be total idiot if I spent all those hard earned mats and golds on underwater weapon which nobody can notice 95% of game time? I just really like Kraitkin, but I am not sure if I want to waste so much material on something which I can’t really show of to others

On the other side, precursor costs only 25g, so I would not have to gamble hundreds of gold in MF to get precursor on greatsword. With my luck, I am sure I would end up frustrated and pennyless.

Why???? I would rather have vitality and toughness

Gandara (EU) opened just now!

The same issue with the Sunrise, I think. Will be fixed hopefully sometime in this year
(I really hope it will! I am doing my Sunrise shiny sword not only to wield it, but to unlock that medal, too!)

This is so funny! I, too, had real luck in MF last few tries. Normally, I would get 1 clover per 5-6 tries. Now, I got my final 21 clovers per 30 tries)

OK, thank you!
My mistake… I trusted wiki too much

Our last try we managed to keep boss from the NPC the entire time so he has enough time to cast bubble… did not work