Guild Wars 2

1) identify what color your server is for that week. you can either click ‘B’ (takes you to WvW screen) and see which background your server is, or you can go to your server’s borderlands and see what color the home area in the top middle is.
2a) follow any commander tag
2b) look on the map for places that are any color other than your server’s and go capture it. soloing is probably not a good idea for towers/keeps/castle (though that would be awesome), but is doable for resource camps and sentries. There are youtube videos of players capturing a tower alone… usually by being locked inside when it was captured, then just killing the lord after everyone leaves.

he also has like 15 million hp.
10 minutes of auto attack is enough to drive anyone bloody mad

transmute to white, give to mesmer, transmute to exotic stats of choice?

I had 3 stacks of swiftness when I played good to know it was the killing people that was adding them.
it still felt like I was running slower than if I didn’t have any movement speed buff. also, my asura seemed larger than normal when ghostified (maybe 1.3 times normal height?)

I can’t even find the historical pumpkin carving achievement. I know I didn’t complete it last year, and would like to rectify that.

I wasn’t the last survivor, so I assumed only the last survivor got a reward. I would of expected everyone would get a big trick or treat bag (and the last survivor gets 2 or a giant one or something more), but apparently that isn’t the case. hopefully a bug. not worth doing more than the once to get ach if there isn’t.

almost everything you get is replaceable. I remember when I started I dared not even click ‘sell all junk’ because I didn’t know what I would or wouldn’t be able to ever get again. there is not one piece the game identifies as junk that is of any use besides selling to merchants for coin. I often wish that it would identify white and blue items as junk as well (except for right now – where salvaging those will give you luck). The only exceptions to this (where the item is the only one you will get) are rewards from achievements (especially living story) and special events.
crafting can be profitable, but usually it isn’t. same with salvaging – I personally use salvaging as my primary income and make huge profits. you just have to be very selective.
people will often say in map chat when something important is going on. Unless I’m waiting on something else, I will always participate in these. Things like ‘champ at Vale WP’ or ‘Fire Elemental in 2 minutes’ or ‘Claw up’ or ‘Lyssa needs more people’. These events do scale with how many players are present, but more players will almost always make it easier (the only exception is dead players who don’t wp and revive themselves). And, as stated before, everyone who participates gets full rewards.
‘participate’ means dealing damage (usually to the main boss, sometimes minions will count). reviving people, healing people, removing conditions, ad control are helpful, but usually don’t give you participation credit. spend at least some of the time dealing damage to the boss. I think it goes by percentage. so with up to 10 people there, 1 attack should give you full credit. with a lot of people (50+), you need 3-5 attacks to get full credit. Sometimes if I just barely make it there in time, I’ll get credit for the event, but not for killing the boss.

dont worry; somewhere will find a way to make 20g/hour for you. just keep reading the forums and reddit and there’ll be bragging.

Be selective with your dodging. you can only dodge every so often, so use it wisely. also, do it just before the mob attacks. it sucks when you hit it a moment too soon or late, and get hit even though you dodged.

most of those I can agree with – armor filter by weight / profession (and able to search for back and breather), repeat, remember, higher buy amounts (1,000 isn’t high enough; no limit is the only limit I can see a good reason to have)
some I think should not be added – buy/sell history: you may want to know how well dusk (for example) has sold in the past, but if everyone had better than 20/20 vision, that would be the new norm and you doing research would give you no advantage over anyone. This would only minimize all potentials for profit.
a few I would hate – outbid notification would also necessitate a spam filter in the mail, higher posting fee on some listings is overly complicated

I would add:
- listing and buy price can only have 3 significant digits with as many trailing zeroes as you want. So 3s12c and 3s13c would be fine. 30s12c would get turned into 30s10c. 342g12s99c would get turned into 342g0s0c. I believe this does the same purpose as your complicated last suggestion without any people yelling at their screen about hidden fees and conspiracies.
- when selling an item, have it show the buy and sell listings currently listed (maybe 20 or so) and not just the highest and lowest offers.

Romek: 99.99% of TP listings are undercutting. if someone is selling ectos for 90s, you are undercutting them when you sell for 30s. I’ve had the honor of placing a few non-undercutting listings once in a while. This only happens when there are Zero (with a capital Z) sell listings on that item. What’s the point of adding a tax that is used in all but 0.01% of situations? It would be easier to just add it all the time, as that 0.01% would not be noticeable. It would be like doubling the tax you pay on buying a car (IRR) for everyone except the person that buys the first one of that model that was produced (serial number 000000001)

the closest thing to what you are looking for is to throw it into the mystic forge with 3 others just like it and get a random weapon out (can be a slightly better deal than salvaging in certain situations)

can you transmute cultural armor onto a white to make it account-bound then transmute it onto your exotic armor? just thinking out loud here.

the fun part: you know that little window that opens when you completed an event that says “event successful, you won: 927,000 exp, 320 karma, 2s13c”? the karma that’s displayed is before any +% karma bonus you have going on. in the lower right, it will show your actual income, which will be 368 if you have karmic infusion.

Through some combo of died / wp / still in combat / weapon swap / temporal curtain / blink, I was able to hold a pose like this while running around:
feet still moved, torso/arm/head didn’t
it started out with 1H sword raised, but stayed after I switched to greatsword (still held with 1 hand). After a min or so, finally went out of combat and the sword was sheathed.

I’m remembering a cartoon TV show I saw when I was little… a bully at school used all the quarters he stole from kids to buy everyone’s copy of one crappy baseball card. His plan was to destroy all but one, then sell that one for a fortune because it would be the only one left.

stop using infinite salvage kit for salvaging rares and you’ll be fine. (fine salvage kit isn’t much better, either. you should use master/mystic/black lion)

you forgot the part where you get as much bloodstone dust as the other 2 when you are farming the other 2.
So if you do 1 hour of dungeons and get 40 empyreal, you also get 40 bloodstone.

if anything, I would expect to face you in the direction you blinked to. but a true fix to this bug would be to have it not adjust the camera at all (you keep facing the same fixed direction)
fun fact: a similar bug is true of mirror images as well (when you use it, your camera swings around to face the direction your character was facing – especially disruptive when you are breaking fear)

I’ve noticed that some bows salvage into iron ore instead of wood. Very peculiar indeed.
Some example salvages with Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic (10 items each):
Strong Bow (fine long bow) level 44 = 10 seasoned logs + 8 hard logs
Strong Longbow (fine long bow) level 45 = 18 iron ore
Strong Bow (fine long bow) level 46 = 13 seasoned logs + 2 hard logs
Strong Short Bow (fine short bow) level 44 = 16 seasoned logs
Strong Short Bow (fine short bow) level 45 = 15 iron ore
Strong Short Bow (fine short bow) level 46 = 17 seasoned logs + 2 hard logs

I’ve also noted that this happens with hearty, honed, rejuvenating, strong (fine, level 30 and level 45)
level 33, 38, and 43 versions of these same weapons give wood logs as expected

agreed that stealth on mesmer does not last very long. I’ve never timed it, but it just always seems like it’s not long enough. in downed state, the blink&cloak skill doesn’t cloak you long enough to do anything – everything has a longer activation than time you are cloaked.

I’d like to add this blink-related bug:
1) face boss
2) blink anywhere
3) notice how you are now facing the direction you blinked from, which is away from the boss 95% of the time

what’s the cut-off?
50 = 25g profit
1000 = 500g profit
there is always the risk that they will simply delete all blueprints that were duplicated, resulting in your 4 stacks just disappearing.

I think that last sentence should drive home a few points for Anet: no one, including their mothers, uses crafting to make items for themselves.

there are berserker’s amulets on the TP… are you sure it was crafted? don’t crafted trinket names look something more like: “Ruby Orichalcum Amulet of the Berserker”?

but these potions were barely popular as they were. if it’s turned into a trade-off, these potions will never be used. (who would want to deal more damage and take more damage when you could just deal more damage by using a different food?)

can confirm weapons in invisible bags CAN be salvaged. they just can’t be sold to vendor or TP. I believe they can be used in the mystic forge…

I’m always a fan of no limit on how much +% mf you can get, but constantly be increasing how much is required for the next level. so 218→219 requires 30,000 and 219→220 requires 30,370 and 220→221 requires 30,750 and so on. adding 10 each level. under this plan, 300% would require 6.5 million total and 400% would require 23.5 million total and 500% would require 62.4 million total and 599→600 would take 874,870 luck for a total of 133.3 million

SAB achievements from the first time around were available to be achieved, and they added new ones. I expect halloween to be the same.

not just omega golems. lots of things sell for a lot less than it costs to make them. My theory is that there is next to zero demand and people make a lot of them, possibly thinking there was demand and later found there wasn’t, or made them when there was demand but since dropped.
Orichalcum Warhorn Mouthpiece is the most extreme I’ve seen. current sell listings are at 97c. To make it requires 1 ori ingot, which requires 2 ori ore, which at cheapest will cost 5s15c buy order. so it costs 10s30c to make and when you sell it you’ll get back 82c, a 92% loss.

I had just started a suggestions thread about adding more uses for things that currently only have one limited use: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/More-uses-for-limited-use-things/first#post2987942

from what I heard, there is a sellable version and a non-sellable version. they started off non-sellable, and if you got yours then, yours is not sellable. then they added the sellable version, and anyone that got one after that could sell theres.
however, there is a way around it (if that is what is going on here). skins are stackable. if you stack them, it turns them into one item with 2 quantity. then you can unstack them and it’s 2 of the same items. I’ve heard you can do this to turn your non-sellable into sellable. but at the price of needing a 2nd sellable one first. I was able to do this to my wvw siege equipment. hopefully someone who’s done it to those weapons can chime in and confirm/deny

thank you, that is most helpful
do you still get essences of luck from salvaging and dailies? what happens when you consume them?

I just found my new hobby: wp to queensdale, say ‘Troll is at 50% hp’ then leave. The best part is that you don’t even have to be near it
A few weeks ago I soloed the underwater wurm in frostgorge. Guild had just completed the rush, so it was convenient. I kept waiting for the zerg to show up and help out but after like 10 minutes no one showed and I killed it alone. a few minutes later people were groaning in chat about the wurm already being dead. I have no sympathy for them. If anyone ever yelled at my directly, I would block and report them.

I think that list has the same numbers for 218+ because no one who contributes to that wiki is above 218%.
If you’re patient, it is possible to make a profit while getting truck loads of luck. it just takes a long time. ectos→dust is much quicker, but you pay around 6c per luck (more if you then sell the dust) 4.2 million luck = 2,520 gold

karma isn’t free anymore. It is so much harder to get than gold that I replaced my gf infusion with a karma infusion.

There are currently several things that are common or not so common, but there is only one purpose for them where you don’t need very many, so anyone whose habits leads them to find a lot gets far more than they need.
Some people are short on these, but there are others that are overflowing with them. The point is that they are limited use, and once you use them, you can’t use them again, yet you keep collecting them.
A perfect example would be the old obsidian shards. They could only be used for legendaries, then you added them to being needed to make ascended. Exactly what we needed, primarily because there was nothing to use karma on if you didn’t want to spend an ear and a leg on a legendary.

There are a few more items that this is the case:
Bloodstone Dust, Dark Matter – easy fix would be able to convert these ascended materials into the others, such as: 250 Bloodstone Dust + 10 glob of ecto + 10 piles of crystalline dust + 1 Dragonite Ore = 10-100 Dragonite Ore. making them tradable won’t help, as everyone has excess bloodstone

Vial/Glob/Shard Mist Essences, Pristine Fractal Relics, extra ascended rings – yes, I run fractals a lot. Most people I talk to don’t have this problem, but these just keep piling up for me after fully equipping 3 characters. tradable, perhaps? salvage into ascended materials or fractal relics?

Mystic Clovers – I have seen people with multiple stacks of these because they were converting karma into T6 materials.

I know there are other items with few uses, these are just the most noticeable to me. If you know of others, let’s add them to the list.

I did similar to you, except I bought it thinking it was the TP delivery agent. stupid names. I hate it so much that I’ll use the frick out of it out of spite, even if there is a merchant 2 feet away. the only time I’ve ever wanted a porta-merchant was during a scarlet invasion, but salvaging everything turned out to be quicker anyways, so even there is non-useful as well. If I could give it to someone who would actually want to use it, I would. I’m tempted to destroy it just so I never have to think about it again. Why can’t it be like the Mystic Conduit and be tradable!?!?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_Exuberance

it’s made with armorsmith crafting. superior uses ori ingot, ecto, onyx lodestone, 250 watchwork sprockets

interestingly, in our group of 5, the side that had 3 people was the side that kept failing while the 2-side kept getting the ooze all the way. I think the number of elementals scales with how many of you are there.
also, get rid of all your zerker builds. you need mob control above everything else (stun, kb, pull, blind, etc.)

we got this ach the first time we tried this dungeon (we knew there was an ach about killing him first, so we wanted to do it). our plan:
go around the right side behind the pipe.
one person walked along the wall toward Spur until he was agro’ed (also agro’ed about 6 of his soldiers). then they ran back to the corner.
we targeted only him and fought in between the wall and the pipe, careful that no one died.
when he died, there was only 1 of those 6 left.
then we killed the other mobs, again without anyone dying.
we got the ach

I believe these are the criteria: no one dies (pretty sure down is fine, just no dead), kill him before killing the majority of his lackies. possibly have to keep all vets alive.

the second time my guild did this dungeon, 4 of us got this achievement and this room only took us 3 minutes. the 5th just didn’t care about AP so he wanted to run straight through the fields. blink made it easy for me. watching the floor and doing careful movements made it easy for everyone else. just don’t go running in there in a frenzy or scared pantless and you’ll be fine.

clearly you are one of those people who keep dying during any engagement that is remotely challenging and I’m forced to rez your sorry corpse because you refuse to wp and you being there is making the boss harder for me to kill.
anyone who thinks dps is the win-all deserves the grief they get when that playstyle backfires on them.
as an example: I can survive not jumping over 3 consecutive water waves from teq. you can tell who is berserker because they die on the first one.

if you don’t want people outbidding you, stop being cheap and offer a reasonable price.

out of 100 or so keys (they used to drop a lot more often a year ago), the best thing I’ve got from the chests is salvage kits and boosters.

no, but you do lose any infusion you had previously put into it.

throw all the exotic maces into the mystic toilet!

so… I made progress. Results:
1) A few items that I would expect to drop inscriptions but didn’t: Guild Defender (10 tries with MSK, 5 tries with BLSK), King’s Remembrance (15 tries with MSK), The Ugly Stick (5 tries with MSK), Poyaqui’s Noggin (5 tries with MSK), Occultist Flame (5 tries with MSK), Scepter of the Highborn (5 tries with MSK), Defiant Blaze (5 tries with MSK), Faithful (5 tries with MSK), Monsoon (5 tries with MSK), Pearl crafted items, Quaggan crafted items. It seemed to just be random in most cases.
I haven’t checked all of them, but I have checked the majority of the others. Anyone want to check a few for me? (especially Azureflame, Feathers of Dwayna, Jormag’s Breath, Melandru’s Gaze, Eye of Rodgort, Glint’s Scale, Lidless Eye, Squeedily Spooch, Titans’ Vengance, and Arachnophobia – yes, these are all Forge items that use Eldritch Scrolls to make for science anyone? yes? yes?).
The odds of not getting one from 5 MSK salvages at 45% return would be 5.03% – certainly within the realm of possible, but also not very likely.
2 & 3) out of the things I had previously got inscriptions from, I got 91 inscriptions out of 200 salvages with MSK (45.5%). with a similar group of items, I got 33 inscriptions out of 50 salvages with BLSK (66%). It’s worth noting that you get 0.9 ectos from MSK and 1.25 for BLSK: kitten * 1.25 / 0.9 = 63.2%, which is close to 66%. Accounting for likelihood that these are a bit off, that could be the same proportions.

4) Soldier’s, Magi’s, Rabid, Shaman’s, Dire, Cavalier’s.
Every dungeon except CoF exotic weapons with one or more of these stats

DragonBrand does daily teq killings just after reset. usually we succeed. 2 nights ago, we got him to 75% with around 6 min left, then 50% while he was still stunned, then the game bugged the defend-the-laser timer and we lost that, then were unable to get him to 25% in the remaining 5 min.
doing this event is still healthy, but at some point it will slow down. The level of coordination needed will just wear away at people.

I wish reporting also blocked them, but apparently you have to do that in 2 actions.

use the dodge key!
save skills for important opportunities (interrupt them when they are about to attack, dont use your main dps ability when they go invisible/evade, knock them back if you’re about to die, …)
use your dodge key!
try other weapons. they all have different play styles, you might like one more than the others.
use your dodge key!
pay attention to the enemy’s level, update your gear periodically, sell things you don’t need (you’ll be able to get it again later if you change your mind)
dodge key. important. save it, use it when they do a big swing. people I know that have a fear of dodging die at least once per engagement – this is not necessary.

sometimes yes, sometimes no.
some mobs will have a corpse, and this corpse will stay there if it is targeted, and the target will stay there if the corpse stays there, so the targeted corpse stays there.
some mobs don’t have a corpse, such kitten and dragons and lots of other things. the target will go away if it dies.