Guild Wars 2

I had a lot of fun destroying SoS blobs last night they kept trying to attack our garrison and we kept getting free kills I’ll grant them that when we attacked them, it didn’t turn out so well. I guess we’re both defensive servers.

DarkSpirit.7046:

Mystic.5934:

As a general rule, I would use a Master SK to salvage anything you buy for under 4g. Above 4g, and it might have something about it that would benefit from a BLSK. BLSK do cost around 1g each use, so you should make their uses count. BLSK vs. MSK is actually based on what the salvaged materials are worth, but that’s harder to calculate, especially quickly.

I don’t see the logic of your general rule. Take the Carrion Acolyte Pants of Divinity, right now you can buy it with a buy order of 5g 20s 69c. If you use a BLSK, you are guaranteed to be able to obtain the Superior rune of divinity from it, which you can sell for 8g 41s 50c sell order. Sure you can be lucky and still get the upgrade with 80% chance from your MSK, but if not, you may not be able to turn a profit.

With BLSK you have a 61% chance of salvaging the insignia/inscription too if you buy an exotic with a salvageable insignia/inscription. With MSK, that chance drops to about 42%. You can sell a salvageable insignia for about 3g+.

Plus you get 1.75 ectos/salvage on average with a BLSK vs 1.27 ectos/salvage on average with MSK on a level 68+ exotic. Therefore, for the guarantee of getting the upgrade, you can still turn a profit if the calculations are right.

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Another example, you can buy Yakkington’s Pauldron for 8g 33s 11c and sell the Superior rune of the Traveler for 9g 85s 97c. Not quite a profit considering the high price of salvage of the BLSK. But if you do get the Dire insignia from it (61% chance), you can sell it for 3g 11s 93c which would more than cover for the cost. Otherwise, hope to get 3 ectos.

Salvaging exotics is a way of getting ectos and dark matter. But it is risky with low profits, and you are not guaranteed to turn a profit. Furthermore, it is a highly competitive market with an auto outbid bot watching over the buy orders. It is not a good market for profits but I take that risk sometimes for dark matter and ectos. It is certainly not my main source of income that’s for sure. Definitely not a 10g in10mins investment, regardless of whether you logout or not. And if you do logout, good luck getting the exotic with your buy order as the bot and others would outbid you when it comes to a good deal.

I think you should re-read what I said. I said: 3g = MSK, 5g = BLSK. I was a bit wrong – I would say 3g would be a better cutoff to use.
Let’s do some examples:
Yakkington’s Paudrons. costs 8.3g, can give superior rune of the traveler (9.4g) and dire insignia (3g) and ecto
with MSK, costs 61c to salvage, 80% chance of traveler rune (7.5g) + 42% chance of insignia (1.26g) + 1.25 ecto (48s) = 9.2g back – 15% tax = 7.85g – 8.3g to buy it = kitten loss
with BLSK, costs 1.1g to salvage, 100% chance of traveler rune (9.4g) + 61% chance of insignia (1.83g) + 1.65 ecto (63s) = 11.86g – 15% – 1.1g kit = 8.98g – 8.3g to buy it = 68s profit
8.3g is higher than 3g, which is why we use BLSK

Now for lower:
Jalis’ Pauldrons. costs 2.5g, can give superior rune of the Dolyak (2.3g) and shaman insignia (2.9g) and ecto
with MSK, costs 61c to salvage, 80% chance of dolyak rune (1.84g) + 42% chance of insignia (1.22g) + 1.25 ecto (48s) = 3.54g back – 15% tax = 3g – 2.5g to buy it = 50s profit
with BLSK, costs 1.1g to salvage, 100% chance of dolyak rune (2.3g) + 61% chance of insignia (1.77g) + 1.65 ecto (63s) = 4.7g – 15% – 1.1g kit = 2.89g – 2.5g to buy it = 39s profit
2.5g is lower than 3g, which is why we use MSK
of course, if you get BLSK for free, then use them anywhere you want!

as Schizo said.
to clarify: some exotics are very worth it to salvage for inscription/insignia. others, not so much. Dire and Shaman are the most common. lots of named exotics as well. If you’re interested in a full list, PM me.

DarkSpirit.7046:

That depends, I have been salvaging cheap exotics from the TP for a long time now. If you are using a BL Salvage kit, that would be about the cost of 1g/salvage. Most of the time, you need to place buy orders to be profitable. And there is at least 1 auto-outbidding bot that is frequently on that “cheap exotic with worthy salvageable rune/insignia/sigil/inscription” market and it usually buys in quantity of 2. It would auto outbid you very quickly. Your best bet is to do this while the east coast of the US is sleeping since the botter doesn’t seem to run it overnight for fear of detection by ANet.

As a general rule, I would use a Master SK to salvage anything you buy for under 4g. Above 4g, and it might have something about it that would benefit from a BLSK. BLSK do cost around 1g each use, so you should make their uses count. BLSK vs. MSK is actually based on what the salvaged materials are worth, but that’s harder to calculate, especially quickly.

no change. our theory was that he’s terrain – untargetable – so not a animation that is affected by this (just like how boulders and doors aren’t bigger).

I just saw a pic of traveler runes-to-come: http://dulfy.net/2014/03/28/gw2-ready-up-episode-9-livestream-notes/
before: +10 all, 2% crit / +15% boon / +10 all, 2% crit / +10% cond / +10 all, 2% crit / +25% ms
after: +8 all / +5% boon / +12 all / +10% boon, +10% cond / +16 all / +25% ms
in the end, that’s 6 extra all stats but 6% less crit dmg. I believe 36 ferocity will be around 3% crit dmg, so less crit overall, but more other stuff

Based on this, I expect Rune of Divinity to look like this after the change:
8 all / +10 all / +12 all / +14 all / +16 all / +18 all (78 total)
which would reduce crit dmg from 12% to around 6%, but add 18 stats everwhere else. I actually expect the new divinity runes to only have 12 more stats than the old ones, I just couldn’t make it work with the amounts (6/8/10/14/16/18 ? except then it’s more higher-bonus-weighted than traveler… I doubt they’ll do 7/9/11/13/15/17)

Pie Flavor.1647:

Mystic.5934:

10 min of work at $10/hour = $1.66 = 133 gems = 8.8g
10g > 8.8g
not to mention that most jobs that pay $10/hour or more you can’t just pick up an extra hour whenever you want.

the comparison between game time and working time is completely stupid, it assumes people are incapable of both working and playing GW2 at the same day.

It also assumes all income from the job has to go to GW2.

Sorry, the reference got lost from Wanze’s post. I just don’t like wasting space quoting people when it’s not needed… except I took a min too long to write it and it was no longer right next to the post I was responding to. I was responding to this suggestion:

ghost.3208:

Simple, work an extra hour per week, buy 800 gems and convert them to gold.

Makes it roughly what you need per week and hey, you won’t even have to login to do some tasks like gathering, flipping or selling mats!!

and I was on the side of “don’t do extra work as a supplemental GW2-income”.

the other great thing about salvaging is this:
you’ll buy maybe 50 various weapons, salvage them, and end up with 3 different inscriptions, 8 of each, which each sell for 4g. point being that you get less than one inscription per item, and the inscription sells for more than the item. the salvaged materials are easier to sell than the item is to get. So once you have the item, you’re basically home free. the only holdup is wait time for buy orders, which you can cancel at any time. so there’s very little risk – only time required to place buy orders and sell listings.
note that this works best for low salvages. If you salvage a lot, I recommend selling in stacks of 10 and sell another 10 when those sell – that’s about how quickly those get bought per ~day.

10 min of work at $10/hour = $1.66 = 133 gems = 8.8g
10g > 8.8g
not to mention that most jobs that pay $10/hour or more you can’t just pick up an extra hour whenever you want.

crab toss > sanctum > southsun > keg brawl – that’s my preference. I always feel both good and bad when I get like 200 points in crab toss and the next-highest is around 30. I’m not the sort of person that will cheat someone by letting them win.

Killface.1896:

Why no bag/bank/character slots on sale…………………………………………………………..

because people already want those, so no need to increase demand.
this explanation is why I stopped going to Black Friday sales. places advertise things like “up to 80% off!” – but the only things that are 80% off are a) hella expensive to begin with, and b) things no one wants where they ordered too much and can’t get rid of. things people want are usually like 10% or less off, if that. the last time they put these expansions on 20% off sale, the price of gems went up like 40%.

DarkSpirit.7046:

Wanze.8410:

Your buy orders and sell listings are still active once you log out. The OP wanted ~50g profit with playing 10 minutes 5 times a week.

I am pretty sure that being forced to logout while waiting for hours outside the game is not what the OP has in mind.

I’m pretty sure placing buy orders and sell listings then logging out is exactly what OP had in mind. no way are you going to make 10g from 10 min of champ farming.

to OP, I’m going to recommend ecto/inscription/insignia salvaging. place buy orders for select rares and exotics, log out for the day, come back next day, salvage everything, sell list everything, place new buy orders, repeat. you can easily make 10g in 10 min. some items can give 1g profit per item. admittedly, only a few of those go through, but let’s say you place buy orders on 30 different items (maybe 5 items each; costs you around 200g), you will likely have 15 items to salvage the next day = 15g profit.
It doesn’t scale very well: the more you invest, the lower the profit per item, to the point where it’s only like 10s per item, where it’s not really worth your time. 10g/day is easily doable, but 100g/day is much more than 10 times as hard.

/always/ leave yourself with some gold. If you spend all but 1 gold to buy items that will sell for a lot, then the price skyrockets, you’re left unable to even sell it. In that case, you can hopefully scrape together enough money to make some profit off it, but you’re better off leaving yourself with enough in the first place.
If you have 2400g invested, I would say you should always keep at least 50g on hand and at least 200g or so of buy orders you can cancel.

when I tried flipping, the % return was usually pretty low, but not as much risk as the initial investment would imply. like around 5-10% per day. meaning you place 2000g worth of buy orders, 200g worth gets filled, you list them and get 300g back = 5% return. but only 200g was actually risked – the other 1800g could be canceled.

maybe I wasn’t doing it right :P the best return I ever got was about a year ago: placed a buy order for one Passiflora Orichalcum Amulet of the Apothecary for 20g, it filled 10 minutes later, listing it for 55g, it sold 20 minutes later, so I got 26g profit in 30 min from 1 min or work (it was literally the only thing I tried to flip that day).

1-400 is typically around 5-10g. 400-500 is around 100-200g. don’t go for 500 unless you REALLY want ascended items (they only have like 5% more stats than exotic)
btw: each ascended item is around 60g (in addition to getting to crafting 500), plus about 100k karma, 20 SP, and ascended materials

just remove that one safe spot and he’ll be hard enough – no need to put him on steroids. have you ever tried fighting him while not standing there? it hurts a lot. I fear they’ll remove the spot and triple his damage at the same time. while we’re at it, it would be nice if those turrets actually helped. currently they deal about the same damage as someone’s autoattack. so it’s not beneficial to guard them or even keep those turrets alive. triple their damage and people will actually want to use them and people will defend them instead of mindless attacking.
p.s. Phantasmal Berserker on his head is glorious.

when I finish early I like to backtrack as much of the track as I can before time runs out, collecting all the crystals. the furthest I’ve gotten is ground level, about where the first lightning pull is required to jump the gap, then time ran out. you find a lot of secret paths traveling backward. they aren’t shorter, but they are less obvious and have crystals (did you know crystals replenished your endurance, which lets you dash again?)

here’s the most recent one that I saw:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/ALERT-Major-Flaw-in-the-BLTP-System/first#post3805970

I’m sure there are other more direct ones.

They specifically want all races to be as strong as each other. As such, they can’t have strong skills specific to a certain race. Even if they all were the same strength, they would be strong in different ways, making people who want to do that be forced to be that race. (such as if Sylvari racial was high dps and asura was tanky). They want race to be purely cosmetic. So by making racial skills 2nd best, you don’t require them to be whatever build you want to be.

Such a guild would be good for speculation and long-term investments. I might be interested.
I’ve briefly considered doing the opposite of what Wanze does – loan gold out to people. As people have said, after a certain point you just can’t fully utilize all the gold you have. The main problem would be getting the reputation required.
“I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.” – Creed Bratton

ricohman.7302:

a guild wars 2 app that allows access to our inventory and to the trading post.

I’d happily pay 10/20 pounds for this.

I’ll use iPhone as an example
iTeleport Remote Desktop (to a Mac) – $25
Screens VNC (Mac) – $20
LogMeIn (I have it on my mac, but I think it works on PC too) – Free
Microsoft Remote Desktop (PC, I’ve never used it) – Free
there are many more. you should research different ones before you choose one – they all have different UI. I have 3 different ones that are good in different situations. Make sure the one you get can remotely control your computer over the internet (a lot of them can only do it over your home’s wifi connection)

the idea is to remotely connect to your home computer, open GW2, then navigate to the TP and you’re good to go. If you’re not trying to kill risen, it should be pretty easy.

I’ve often placed a buy order for 250 iron ore at the same price someone else placed buy orders for 5000 iron ore. I watch the number decrease to 4000 orders, then check the pickup tab, and nothing there. = buy orders are FIFO
sell listings are also FIFO, though the proof is much less compelling and easy to test. You can do the same thing, it just takes a lot longer and I don’t have the patience for it or desire to prove what I’ve casually observed. (sell listings are also FIFO)
also, what’s LILO? Last In, Last Out? that’s just re-describing FIFO. the typical alternative to FIFO is LIFO (Last In, First Out)

they are available on the TP. If you want them, just go buy them.

Orr in china should be interesting
how about Illusion of Life (Mesmer skill)?

Wanze.8410:

And out of personal curiosity, why would you spend 5g on those recipes? it cost between 15-20g to craft a station…

they sell for 20-30g. sharpening stone station even has a 5g profit atm. cheaper if you make the deldrimor yourself.

it’s like one of those riddles where a random Word is capitalized and it turns out to be someone’s name.

Lishtenbird.2814:

I missed SAB events, but aren’t those skins coming back when SAB returns?

Zaxares.5419:

On a related note, I wonder just how much money it would take to acquire every single skin in the Wardrobe… And if there’s anybody crazy/rich enough to attempt it. XD

But if ANet makes a Title for it… :P

I believe they release new SAB skins at each chapter. So, new SAB skins will be available, but not old ones.

I feel like the Fractured update increase the skin drop rate.
before that, I did well over 500 fractals, and found a total of 1 skin during that time
after the update, I got 2 skins within 10 runs.
hehe, reminds me of a guildie of mine. before the update, we did a lvl 32 fractals then lvl 28. he got two dagger skins – one from each of them.

they didn’t want people to use the gem exchange as stock – where you buy low, sell high. That’s why selling gems gives far less than the amount of coin it cost to buy those.

I use Jormag’s Breath as a light source. Plus, it looks awesome, especially the blue glow. But… ele can’t use.
Anomaly does not illuminate.

I just feel bad for all those people who currently have eternity and will not get twilight or sunrise skins in their drobe.

I thought I read something about map completion after the update giving a transmutation charge… 1 charge now vs. 1 charge then = why the rush?

depends on settings and your computer. I have medium graphics and get 20-120 depending what I’m looking at. (Mac Pro)

those 19 are more likely to drop, and are not worth very much.
but the 6 are worth a lot.
consider it a raffle. sometimes you win big, sometimes you lose small.

a couple hours after the recipes were available, I got one of each. the stations were selling for like 70g. I was hoping to make one of each and sell to someone who thought they were a rare drop or something and worth that 70g before the price came down. After a couple relistings, I eventually sold them around 30-40g, which was nice (more than made back the investment).
looking at spidy, these stations do sell, and they aren’t exactly non-profitable.

I’ll point out that the recipe for these was added when there were only 3 slots to fill (2 rings + back)
if you want a cheaper alternative to these, look at the wvw infusions. those give +5 stats and +1% dmg to/from wvw guards. won’t help in high level fractals, but it’s +5 stats instead of +4.

I, myself, use celestial ascended gear. which required celestial insignia, but not celestial exotic.
basically, it’s so time-consuming to make the exotic that people just go straight for the ascended.
I’m sure the number of people that have made celestial exotic is above zero, but I am also sure the percentage of celestial exotic gear that’s made is orders of magnitude below the average number of exotic gear made.

sentinel inscriptions can not be crafted. they can be bought, though, which was why I didn’t know about their salvagability at first. but I can confirm you can get them from salvaging sentinel weapons.
anything crafted does not give inscriptions. So Sentinel’s Pearl, Sentinel’s Destroyer, and Sentinel’s Quaggan do NOT give inscriptions.
the odds of getting zero inscriptions from 10 items with a BLSK is aprox 1 in 9,500. not nearly as impossible as other odds I’ve seen on here.

because they have 5 more stats than the plain versatile infusion.
how much did you pay for your ascended armor? those each only have like 5 more stats than exotic.

because they wanted to see how everyone responded to time-gated crafting, no one made it, so they decided to test it again with ascended stuff to see if they could get some data points there.
Things tend not to be changed unless they need to be, and since almost no one makes celestial armor, this doesn’t negatively affect many people. never mind that the time-gating is half of the reason no one makes them.

huh! that’s interesting and I’ll have to try it out tonight.
I do know that exp booster + mf booster + karma booster + 4-slot leather bag = exp booster + mf booster + karma booster.

… They moved it.

Reading this reminded me about that guy who posted about the renown heart ‘Help the people of Ebonhawke’ in Fields of Ruin. They summed it up as something like, “I was having fun doing map completion, then I get to this one heart and it says I’m supposed to go into protestors houses, drag them out into the street, and kill them.”
The wiki for this heart even says “Knock on suspicious doors and kill Separatists when they spawn”

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Sell-Your-Stuff-prices-on-two-lines/first#post3805876
I reported the bug… apparently it’s not affecting everyone

It’s only bugged on the mac version!?!?
suffering succotash!

well… it is a game bug and can’t be fixed via tech support, so this section is where it belongs.
yes, mac here.

I’m fine if people know what I invest in – they will just raise the price even further when they buy it
I bought some select runes and sigils. sigils, I did ones that I think will become much more useful in the update. most of the ‘on crit’, a lot of ‘gain stat charge on kill’, a couple of ‘on weapon swap’.
as for runes, I mostly did the mid-costly ones. expensive ones are more likely to be nerfed, and dirt-cheap ones are usually dirt-cheap because they are too easy to get. the 10s-1g ones I felt would increase the most.
I didn’t invest a lot – not super confident about it. about 1000g total. my dye investments from last month are what I’m banking the most on.

no need to use a bot to place 2 million buy orders. just takes 2 hours instead of 5 minutes, but certainly do-able, especially on slow internet connections.

it’s because the sale of the item is taxed, not the buyer. if you taxed buy orders, you would also need to tax buying the lowest listing. would you really expect to pay 11g for an item that costs 10g? well… sales tax in the real world, but this is make believe, kitten!

devs have stated that the TP is FIFO (first in, first out). meaning that your 250 silk would sell before someone else who listed 2000 at the same price.
now, what’s likely is that the 2000 would be listed at 1c below your price. in that case, theirs would sell first as it’s for less coin.

single use, hella expensive. cheaper to send potent superior sharpening stones to all 100 players in that area. but it’s a convenience and fun thing. when you drop one, people gather.

to clear this up: legendaries could NOT be made or bought on day 1.
people came close, but I believe it was the gift of mastery (maybe fortune?) that held them back. it was disabled for several months. I believe they first enabled it around january of the following year? (4 months after release) anyways, I remember guilds banding together to help grind out the requirements so they could be first. good times.

The prices you can select (‘Meet highest buyer’ and ‘Match lowest seller’ and ‘Add to my lowest listing’) are now on two lines, making it very annoying to read it. It puts the gold and silver on the top, and the copper on the bottom. This is a recent bug… started on the tuesday update.