Guild Wars 2

I’ll add Jug of Water to that. can only buy in stacks of 10, and the T6 items that require it use 20. compared to coal, which you buy in stacks of 10 and use 1 at a time. should have an option to buy Jug of Water in stacks of 100 at the least.

Price of ecto jumped from 18.5s to 26.8
Price of Crystalline Dust jumped from 39s to 16s O_O
Master Tuning Crystal jumped from 18s to 18.3s :P what’s the new recipes? did the requirements for these just go from 1→2 ?

if you are guesting on another server and you enter wvw, you enter it on your home server’s team.

you can not put major sigils in the forge and get superior runes out :P

it is definitely possible to make a profit from buying major sigils, forging them, and selling the superior sigils you get. I wouldn’t recommend it, though: I spent a few minutes placing a huge amount of buy orders, then waited 2 days for less than half of them to be filled, then started with 1200 major sigils and spent about an hour putting them all in the forge (~400 forgings), then reforged the majors that came out and sold all the superior sigils. made about 6g profit (~17% profit) after TP tax. In the end I decided it was profitable, but not so good when looking at profit/time. It would probably go faster if I wasn’t so concerned about selling the more valuable major sigils rather than reforging them (I ended up not doing this, but that was my plan when I started). I bought all the major sigils at less than 2.5s each. 2.9s each would reduce the profit to 1g. even less worth the time.
One thing I noticed: the first round of forging consisted of about 10 different major sigils, and those produced about 15 different superior sigils and 30 different major sigils. The second round of forging consisted of those 30 different major sigils, and those produced about 10 new types of superior sigils. the second round produced far fewer superior sigils total, but it was just curious that they drastically increased the variety of them. almost like for each combination of sigil you put in, there is a set of possible outcomes.

If a scammer can con numerous people into sending them hundreds of gold each and not get banned even as a gold seller, you can send your friend some gold once and be fine.

but 2.9s is not profitable to gamble for exotics.

from the attached email to support, the item in question was Dusk.

It was probably a tough choice for Anet to decide to never intervene with scammers. On one hand, no one likes them. But on the other, the lengths it would take and side effects of going after them would be huge.
People would get into an argument with someone, then turn them in for scamming out of rage. The hours necessary to look through logs to determine who is telling the truth is worth more than a lot of players have even bought in gems. If players knew they would be backed up if scammed, they would put themselves in more situations where they could get scammed, further increasing Anet’s burden.
Personally, in theory at least, I’m a big fan of: “If you accuse someone and they were proven innocent, you should receive the same punishment they would of received”. It’s just hard to put that into practice, as you would still be claiming to be a victim.

CoF 1’s main problem is not that it’s too easy. it’s just too short. Should be made harder, but the actual length is the problem. Why they have allowed it to remain in the game as is for so long is worrisome. They fixed all the AC paths – why is CoF their golden child?

I’ve transmuted an item just to get the socket. Lionguard Sword of Karka Slaying. It was the only thing I could spend 70,000 commendations on.

yeah, selling on the tp is notoriously bot-friendly and human-hater with this respect.
at least you know what caused the errors. most people that come here complaining of that are asking what they did wrong.

next: no armor AND no traits!

as to the stat combinations: get the stats that suit your build best. do you even deal conditions? (bleed, confusion, burn, poison) if not, don’t get any item with condition damage.

as to the previous people who recommend level 80: I’ve seen it suggested to use full level 78-79 gear to minimize cost, especially when transmuting (level 79 requires the easy-to-get transmutation stone, while level 80 requires the uber-rare transmutation crystal)
level 80 greatsword:
995-1100 Damage
179/128/128
level 79 greatsword:
980-1083 Damage
176/126/126
that’s only 32 damage and 7 stats difference. If that is that important to you, then you should also have the costly infusions in your ascended rings and accessories (the ones with +5 AR and +5 stat) instead of the cheap laurel +4 stat ones.

I’ve been in a party in fotm, found 2 destroyer cores, exclaimed that in chat.
someone in the party said they were collecting them for a legendary and could he buy them.
I quoted a price that was below market value and said sure.
I sent them, he sent the silver (pretty much at the same time), we finished the dungeon.
would I ever recommend anyone to do that? no way.
why did I do it? because I was feeling generous and could afford to lose them if he was scamming. basically I saw it as: “here’s a gift, can you please give me a gift back?”

My condolences to your friend. It sucks that we can’t just trust people, but leeches do exist.
It’s worth noting that it’s likely gold sellers that do this sort of thing. Anyone who plays the game will have a soured gaming experience after scamming – there’s just no reason to play: “look at this shiny sword that belongs to someone else”. gold sellers, on the other hand, don’t play the game.
I had a good read a couple weeks ago: http://www.wirm.net/nightfreeze/part1.html

now that would be interesting… infused fractal capacitor looks on exotic stats with no AR. I think ascended stuff doesn’t work with transmutation, but you never know until you try! worst that will happen is it won’t let you add it to the transmutation window.

Healix, I want that interface. how? I don’t so much care for listing 1611 things at once, but to have it show the actual profit and ‘view market data’, and I can only guess what “Ignore errors” does.

have it drop from back items. no other obvious drop from them (there are no light/med/heavy classes)

the window says that, but has anyone confirmed this in practice?
I guess you’d have to only have like 10 precision to get a 0.476% chance, then see if you ever get a critical hit.

I had issues with lag that disappeared when I deleted GW2 and re-downloaded it. I suppose just the former would of solved the issue as well…

5s is likely the intended cd. they really need to do sweeping bug fixes to correct every tooltip.

you’d be much more credible if you didn’t sound so ridiculous.
I agree that temporary content is annoying, but have a better argument! go join a debate club.
Deep Glacial Sky dye is nothing. Piddles. I didn’t even know it existed before now. It’s presence or absence is going to have zero influence on anything else. That means it does NOT break the economy, as the economy couldn’t care less if it was there or not.

Bare with me until I get to the point:
I read an article about EVE online…
In it, they described a problem the developers had: where a particular location was hands-down the best location for trading, so everyone set up shop there.
It’s not in the spirit of the game to require you to trade in one spot if you want to even remotely successful compared to everyone else. The point of the game was to find your own niche and fill it.
So they nerfed the location
Then everyone packed up and moved to the next-best location for trading, and that became the trading center of the universe.
So they nerfed it and realized the whack-a-mole trend.
Point is: there will always be a next-best location for farming. The goal of the game developers is to have a balanced game, and the goal of the players is to get the most possible loot per time.

Advice: If Anet nerfs a location, don’t complain about it – that will only make everyone’s transition to the next-best location quicker, decreasing how long you can farm the next-best location before Anet nerfs that one. Instead, just accept that it was inevitable and find the new location and farm it quickly. Eventually the whole world will be balanced and farmed evenly and you won’t have to think about it too much.

yeah, it’s the same item as you get from karma merchant. It’s just a karma item that’s able to drop from fotm. It was introduced in fotm first, and was unsalvageable then, and later added to karma merchant. It’s silly that you can get a karma item in a non-karma way, but who said everything had to make sense?

I think Titan was suggesting that Anet make it so all items you purchase from the TP are received as account bound. totally unrelated to your post.

the exotic back items (such as Wayfarer’s Spineguard) can be purchased with karma from vendors in Orr. That’s why those can’t be salvaged.
The rare back items have no reason to be unsalvageable. My guess is that they just copy/pasted the exotic’s info and forgot to change it. Or they plan to add a karma vendor in 2 years where you can buy them.
anything obtained from personal story: I can see why those would be non-TP-able (except for, of course, the ones that you can TP :P I’d estimate you can currently TP the top 50% most valuable things you get from the personal story), but it’s silly not to let those be salvaged or sold to vendor. Same goes for karma items – what is the harm in turning 42,000 karma into 20s worth of ectos??? Orrian boxes give you like 1g every 22,936 karma.
non-named exotics from fotm… There is no reason for not being able to TP those… their method of a stealth nerf?
In general, I see no reason why anything that you can sell on the TP should not be able to be salvaged (rare back items can’t) or forged (superior sigils can’t). I also can’t think of any reason why anything shouldn’t be able to be salvaged…
gw2 has some learning to do.

AresOnasis.4703:

Leave it as is. Having some events failing is part of the fun. What the hell is the point of these events if they don’t fail?

I want to see The Shatterer completely decimate a group, and then progress to take over the entire map unless people band together to stop him. I want to login one day and be told in guild chat that the entire map is lost and we should help try to take it back.

I’d give my Asura’s left ear for this!

no. you should not be able to scrutinize fellow players’ build choice.
if you keep wiping, just leave. they’ll probably find a replacement 5th and do just fine.

it’s luck.
I usually throw major sigils/runes in there only if they would otherwise sell for less than the average price of major sigils/runes (around 4s) that way I sell if it gives more, randomize it if it would give less. what comes out of the forge I do the same. I recently put 4 sigils worth 2.6s each into the forge and got a superior sigil of bloodlust (worth 5g) back. every now and then it will more than make up for all the majors you got up until that point.

oh, that’s a really good rumor to start. Let’s start it!

I’m pretty sure text above the enemies is stuff done to them from you, and text above you is stuff done to you from them. If it was you dodging them, it would of said “evaded”. you missing them would put a “miss” above them. Just like you dealing damage to them will put a “582” above them, or bleed on them from you puts a “77” above them.
my theory: most likely you were under the affect of blind or similar: “Next outgoing attack misses… Blindness is cured on the next outgoing attack, regardless of whether that attack would’ve hit anything if not for the blindness”. That screen border looks like it might be the remnants of a blind. blind will put a dark border around your screen, and when it goes away the border fades as well.

create a support ticket. I’ve heard of people getting a refund, but if nothing else, it’s one more vote for “your wording is incomprehensible and this needs to be fixed”

There should NEVER be a time when the mob is invulnerable and able to hurt you.
If you can’t hurt them, they should not be able to hurt you. plain as that.
It’s puppy annoying when you attack the mob while approaching it, only to find that the game decided that the mob couldn’t reach you so it makes the mob invulnerable. Meanwhile, you’re standing on top of it trying to stab it to death and it’s not taking damage, yet it is killing you anyways.

- Thaumanova Reactor’s Fire Elemental, before the bug fix and the series of nerfs (where the fire balls would hit you before the red circle appeared, and they hit for half your health, and there were piles of bodies everywhere). Just the memory of that makes FE my favorite meta event to attend.
- Lieutenant Kholer after buff

I agree that the second elder dragon will probably be addressed in an expansion, but I also fear it’ll be poorly done. I seem to expect from them that they’ll add maybe 3 areas to the north and one will have the dragon’s dungeon (similar to how Orr is 3 areas with one having Arah dungeon). there are currently around 30 pve areas. an expansion should be an increase by a significant percent of this – at least 15 new areas.

I’ll point out that there is technically no such thing as farming spots (well, gathering nodes are, but they are totally unrelated to this conversation). what you consider ‘farming spots’ are simply places where there is an atypically large amount of loot dropped compared to all other areas of the game. A nerf to one of these areas just means that that area now drops the same amount of loot as all other areas of the game.
Every game wants zero ‘farming spots’, because that means that everything in their game is balanced. Why would they want everyone to play in one square of one area when there is an entire map out there? It would be silly if everyone on every server was on top of you because there is the most loot/per time possible in the game.

once account bound, it can never be sold.
it might be able to be thrown into the mystic forge or salvaged, but it’s possible all that can happen to it is sell to a merchant.

you don’t need to learn every skill. my advice: learn the bare minimum to progress through the skill tree, selecting the ones that sound like you’d like it. by the time you have those, you should have a better idea of what sort of character you want to play, and you will probably get a couple more skills. Not much use having 20 skills when you can only use 5 at any one time, and switch to 3 others in certain situations.

you can turn a soulbound into an account bound by using a transmutation stone/crystal.
the stats will not be saved, but the skin will.
item + trash white item of same type + T stone/crystal → save the skin of the item, and stats of the trakittenem, socket of the item

if Anet manual decrease the gold -> gem price, this attachment is what the graph of that day’s gem price would look like.
How good is your internet connection?

if you don’t plan on playing high level fractals, you never need AR. (high level = 10+, but it’s easy to get 10 AR, so 20+ would require built-in AR in items)

when I had 200-500g, I would never invest the last 10g. now that I have 1400g, I increased it to 20g.
enough to list the things I purchased.
then again, I usually deal in quick, low profits.

would it be player-run or anet-run?

how about instead of blue or better for champs, it’s a random fine crafting material? (T1-T6 for all level champs, equal odds)

range should deal significantly less than melee all the time. they are like 1/5 as likely to actually hit you.

bug where a food ingredient was underpriced and you buy a lot of it? permaban!
bug where you lose gold because they made a mistake? sol.

do them all again. make sure to do 2 moves during the fall, don’t hit anything on the way down. best to just spam 12121212
I was going through dulfy’s list, got to the end, had 2 jumps left. insert series of profanity read through the list again and realized I missed one in Caledon, then decided to do all the ones I skipped because I thought I had done it already; that gave me the achievement. this was monday, so unless the latest patch bugged it, it will work if you do it.

if you had got it 2 days ago, you’d notice the difference. Everyone and their mother was on here complaining how crappy it was to spend 3 times longer harvesting and that the animation was reused and it was a mining pick, etc. etc. etc.

I was not a believer at first, and my own test showed that not much if anything was wrong, but I gotta say that the length of time John is looking into it indicates that something seems, at least at first glance, wrong to him.

I feel like they did this patch so it is at least functioning properly until they are able to finish it. I expect they’ll release the full version of it soon.

I find it hard to stock up on Crystalline Dust because so often there are profitable craftings made with it, so I’m always buying a stack of it, then doing 252 crafts (2 from ones I found), then no more dust on hand. It’s a real pain in the keester and makes it hard to save up for my Legendary; you have no idea! One of these days I’ll probably have to buy all the dust I need instead of saving the ones I find…

I used one… the name I changed to I had picked out ahead of time, and it wasn’t taken. I forget when the actual item disappeared, but I would expect that there is a cancel button that would let you use it at a different date instead.

There is, indeed, a cancel button:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Name_Change_Contract
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjFIEK9Ljtc

Lisa.6102:

silly silly you.

I want to win the lotto too, but buying more tickets doesn’t guarantee that win.

I guess you can thank yourself luck that you only used pretend money and weren’t so foolish that real $$ weren’t tossed into the wind

actually, most lotteries you can, technically, buy enough tickets that it guarantees a win.
However, I know that most lotteries also require payment in cash and you can only buy them at most like 10 at a time, so it’s rather tricky to actually buy enough to guarantee a win.
odds of winning Mega Millions is currently about 1 in 175,711,535
so you would have to buy 175,711,535 unique tickets (gl keeping track of that)
if the jackpot is high enough, you would be guaranteed to make a profit.

Anet’s gamble-in-a-box is NOT like most lotteries, though. each open is a roll of the dice, where it is possible to lose 175,711,535 times in a row