Guild Wars 2

yes. but selling larger amounts will always be more profitable than smaller. the listing fee will be smaller, and it’s nearly guaranteed people won’t be buying them one at a time, though this depends on the item.
I usually don’t consciously factor this in. Only case I do is saving up several crafting materials (such as carrots) before selling. Like times when TP gives just a bit more profit than merchant (selling one at a time might give 1c profit, but 30 at a time would give 70c profit)
For most things, I will usually assume ~3c less profit than predicted due to this. It basically keeps me away from trying to flip things that sell for less than 10c.

yes, please fix them! and yet, I disagree with the OP
their effect is perfect, their cooldown is fine, etc. it’s the puppy tooltip – it’s very misleading and frequently wrong. you should not have to research out of game for how a sigil of blood works. it should tell you if there is a 5s cooldown, or how much damage it deals, etc. these are easy things to fix, yet they have been in the game since launch.

and please standardize it! “(This effect cannot trigger more than once every 5 seconds.)” is identical to “(Cooldown: 5 Seconds)” I prefer the ‘cooldown’ phrasing.

I love how there are threads like this: “too many are playing support roles”, then there are also threads like “why is glass cannon berserkers the only style people play anymore?”

this is a problem I’ve always had on every game I ever played when I had 2 monitors. It’s half the reason I got rid of the second one.

to all of these 30+g/hour people… what percent of your total wealth does that represent?
if you have 10,000 gold, 50g in one hour is 0.5% of your wealth.
Money tends to multiply. If you invest 10,000 gold, it’s easy to get 50g profit. It’s hard to invest 100g and get 50g profit.
Not trying to diminish your accomplishments, just trying to make those that make 5g/hour feel less bad.

it’s probably how the real TP works. the reason is rounding – it always against your favor
buy for 4c is you pay 4c
sell for 5c is you pay 1c to list, then when it sells for 5c, 10% is taken out = rounded to 4c. that’s 3c return = 1c lost.
250 is trickier
sell for 250 × 5c = 62.5c cost to list, rounded to 63c. if all 250 sell at once, final value fee will be 250 × 5 × 0.1 = 125c. if they sell one at a time, final value fee will be 250 x round(5 × 0.1) = 250 × 1 = 250c. so if you sell 250 at 5c, the total fee will range from 188c to 313, making the return range from 937c to 1062c = -63c to 62c profit (when considering you bought it at 4c each)

haven’t noticed. I believe they are incapable of giving you ori, but didn’t notice about the only ever 1 mithril (salvaging crafted things always gives you what was used to craft them). I’ll check next time I salvage a bunch of them and get back to you

A little math:
buy for 5g
salvage with BLSK, get 1.25 ecto + sigil
sell sigil for 6g = 5.1g return
sell ecto for 22s each = 23.4s return
cost of BLSK is currently ~36s
total profit = 5.1g+23.4s-5g-36s = -2.6s

OP did say “Buy it for less than 5 gold”. but that’s still a pretty slim profit margin. nearly guaranteed, but slim.

My take on it:
Ranger has the highest sustained damage
Thief has the highest instant damage
Warrior has the highest short-term burst damage

the last time I suggested this, someone shot me down with “that’s running a scrap materials business at a junk yard”
Doesn’t matter. No matter what you call it, there’s profit in buying items and salvaging for the socket. This is how I currently get about 30% of my income

agreed. it’s ridiculous that they are so worthless from not being able to be salvaged.
Chickenshoes may be right, though. Anet probably didn’t know what material they should drop, so they decided to postpone the decision for later but never got back to it.
What would they drop? a random one? I’m thinking they should drop either cloth or leather.

yeah, good reminder sokar. non-named exotics from fractals can’t be traded either. Though I don’t think I knew about their inability to be salvaged. Also no apparent reason behind that one.

the mesmer downed 2 skill cloaks you for like 3 seconds, creates a downed clone a short distance away who attacks, and teleports you a short distance in a random direction. sometimes I get lucky and teleport through a small wall or something, but usually it’s just a delay to the inevitable.

I am of the opinion that if they reward achievements with laurels, they will also reward previously-achieved achievements with the same amount of laurels. They’d kitten off too many people not to do this, and it makes sense.
I am also of the opinion they won’t be rewarding achievements with laurels :P too easy to do half of the achievements and get hundreds of laurels. they’ve made that currency too valuable for that. with 200, that player would then have BiS trinkets. currently, that takes around 5 months. if achievements gave laurels, you could do that within a few weeks. (I’m picturing 1 achievement = 1 laurel + ~10 achievement points)

Master (and Mystic) kits yield 0.9 ecto per rare.
Black Lion kits yield 1.25 ecto per rare.

Current prices of salvage kits per salvage: (3.02g / 100 gems)
Black Lion Salvage kit = 36.24s
Mystic Salvage kit = 1.736s
Master Salvage kit = 0.6144s

with ectos at 22s each, the expected profits from salvaging rares using each of these:
Black Lion Salvage kit = 22*1.25 – 36.24s = -8.74s
Mystic Salvage kit = 22*0.9 – 1.736s = 18.06s
Master Salvage kit = 22*0.9 – 0.6144s = 19.19s

so unless you get BLSK for free or as a by-product of opening a bunch of chests looking for a skin, you’re losing money with each salvage.
Mystic is only cheaper than Master if gems are less than 0.94g per 100 gems.
BLSK is only more profitable than MSK if it’s socketed with something that’s worth more than 1.4g.
You can guess which kit I use

Last I heard they were going to reward laurels for achievements, and when they did they would retroactively reward people who previously did those achievements.
neither of those has happened yet. not sure if they will.

rare items have 87.87% the stats exotic has. exotics help, but they’re not going to make the difference between hard time and breezy. (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Item)

In Orr, pick your fights carefullyer.
I’ve solo’ed group events before, but I’m a tank who knows how to dodge and escape, and it was rough going. same goes for champions – possible, but rough even for experienced people.
try not to aggro too many mobs at once.
have a variety of skills, such as: one for stun break, one for increase damage, one for surviving/escaping.
know what enemies you are approaching and change your skills. like don’t use reflecting skills on melee mobs, and DO use reflecting skills on ranged mobs, but keep in mind that not all ranged mobs use projectile ranged… it’s complicated.

most of all the maps is empty. but I’m always able to find one section of every zone where there is a high population density. not necessarily doing stuff, but some are. most are waiting for an event to start.
use /map to ask anyone in that zone if they want to join you for random events and leveling and stuffs

I think with what I had equipped, my main problem was using temporal curtain early, like to get to them to attack because he was long/short bow, then it wason cd when he ran.
best way to tell the difference between clones/illusions/real thing = casting speed. clones and illusions attack like 1/4 or 1/2 as often as the real thing, and always the same. real thing will do stuffs.
there’s also the option of mirror image + decoy. the enemy will see 3 you’s and pick which one is real to attack. meanwhile, you are invisible right behind them and ready to pounce.

I stumbled onto this this morning: http://dulfy.net/2013/01/28/gw2-new-orr-temple-exotics/
The one I have is exotic, so that probably explains the reason: it’s also possible to get that item from a karma vendor, so it counts as a karma item.
but most karma items you can throw into the MF, but not back pieces?
And that does bring up that rare back items also have this problem, yet are not karma items. is it just an oversight on their part?
Sometimes I feel like Anet forgets that back pieces and breathing apparatus even exist.

Just curious if there was a reason I can’t salvage my Rabid Spineguard after I’m done wearing it. I found it in fractals, it came soulbound so I decided to use it until I got something with stats I wanted. Is it now worthless?

I read a story like this a couple months ago on here… twist was that the guild leader was the perp who stole everything then bolted. I think they mentioned something about working towards a legendary…

when did they say they were working on a good LFG tool?
last I heard, their response was: “we have one, go use it”

huh. it looks like a red Jormag’s Breath. would be fun to duel-wield both
I’ve been wanting to loot claw’s chest, then link a BL chest (unlocked). should get some giggles from the crowd.

my list for how many buttons you will probably use (I haven’t tried all the professions):
1) Ranger
4) Guardian
6) Engineer
7) Mesmer
8) Elementalist
It does depend on your build and play style

I’m a mesmer who usually does pve. I did some wvw last night and ran into this enemy ranger. I rocked him hard, but he was able to run away. I need practice immobilizing them. anyways, he couldn’t get me below half health and I repeatedly would get him to 15%, he’d run, heal, I’d catch up, get him to 15% again, he’d run, etc. eventually I just gave up :P I didn’t see that being a problem when I went in there, but I’ll probably equip blink from now on.

it’s worth pointing out that soulboard/account bound is not a gold sink. other way around.
with account bound exotic trash you don’t want, you can sell it to a merchant and 5s get’s brought into the game
if you were able to pay 25g (just right now – gem prices will likely go up in the future) to turn it sellable, that’s 25g that leaves the game. and in a way Anet likes.

Well, this is problematic and it’s not. It’s really only a problem for Anet, not us. I’ll explain:
yes, achievement points from dailies/monthlies/previous events make new players ever catching up impossible
but what is the result of that? it makes the leaderboard an indicator of how much time you’ve spent playing. Nothing else.
Now that we know this, it makes the leaderboards quite useless, uninteresting, and unimportant, wouldn’t you say? Hence why it’s Anet’s problem. The way they made the leaderboard made it worthless. Effort poorly spent.
Kinda like farming/grinding. People are only interested in what benefits them the most. This leaderboard does nothing, so everyone will ignore it.

Dante Gnarly.8392:

**I wouldn’t do this to Sunrise, or Twilight, as it will not let you make Eternity afterwards.

that’s half the point – it’s not a legendary anymore. it just has a purple name.

I agree: my fractal running would go quicker if I used berserker gear. but not for your obvious reason. because then I’d die when the rest of the party did, allowing us to retry from a checkpoint sooner. Instead, they all die, then I have to solo it or run away and wait for deaggro.

it is possible to transmute it and turn it from soulbound into account bound. aside from that, all it’s good for now is salvage for ectos or sell to a merchant for it’s vendor price of 5s28c
can you transmute trinkets? just realized I never tried. and how about transmuting an exotic trinket’s name onto ascended trinket’s stats?

oh? awesome.
last night I found 3 typos:
Orichalcum Gaunlet Plates – http://www.gw2db.com/items/56316-orichalcum-gaunlet-plates-s
Mithril Gaunlet Plates – http://www.gw2db.com/items/56304-mithril-gaunlet-plates-s
Darksteel Gaunlet Plates – http://www.gw2db.com/items/56292-darksteel-gaunlet-plates-s

I submitted the bug report, but I bet they probably knew about this since launch and decided it’d be too hard to correct. think about how many recipes use this and would need changing and likely break as a result, then all the TP posts that probably also need changing, then the items. can’t have a single spot with different name otherwise it won’t be recognized (like how transmuted legendaries don’t count as legendaries)

I think I mathematically showed a while ago that adding precision is always better than adding critical damage (because of that base +50%).
but power vs. precision depends on how much of each you have. Balanced amounts of each give the most damage output.

Nretep: I thought the same. then I re-read Quality Maintenance Oil: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quality_Maintenance_Oil
it’s the only one that doesn’t add to precision. bug, perhaps?

I mistakenly used mine for a shortbow for my ranger without thinking to look at which one would give the most gold, even though I planned on selling it anyways.
I found it extremely funny that the Pact gave it’s second-in-command the highest tier weapon only after the threat was neutralized. “Oh, you won the war for us with a pointy stick? here, have a Tank you can park in your driveway to show your neighbors how much you meant to us. Sorry we didn’t give you the tank to help you win the war, we didn’t think you could do it at first.”

I thought nodes were supposed to reset weekly? I remember I was doing daily Claw events for a while, and the nodes seemed to be in the same place day after day.

an example of flipping:
search for level 68 to 80 rares, sort by price ascending. the first few to show up will likely have low buy orders, which you place several buy orders for. when they fill, salvage those rares and sell the ecto. check the price of ecto before hand, know the return for each salvage, then calculate the max you can pay for each rare to still get a profit.
current ecto price = 23.07s
after TP tax = 19.6s
MSK gives 0.9 ecto/rare = 17.64
so if you can buy your rares for less than 17.64s, you make a profit. not even including the mithril/leather/silk you also get.

patience is the key that leads to profit. waiting for your buy orders to be filled saves a bunch, waiting on your sell orders to sell gets more profit.

“I looked through the list my sale price was the highest and it did not show it”
as a sale listing, highest would be the one last to show up, and as greyblue said, it only shows the 20 cheapest.
double check the price to find it on the list. I’ve seen people mistakenly do 117 instead of 177

I can’t find a picture of the tooltip atm, but does the unlimited mining pick have a level requirement?
I’d like to remind everyone of how people put no-level-req mining picks on level 1 alts and parked them at the rich ori vein in southsun.
just a thought

naw, they just want you to buy more of them. If they think they can force you to buy it multiple times for all your characters, they will. at least for this, it’s all about the money and not about what it should be.

DEs don’t reward you as much as, say, dungeons. If they want people to focus on those, they need to reward them proportionally. I made this equation:
percent of people that do it = fun * reward / time
CoF1 speed run has low fun, high reward, extra low time = high percent
Dynamic Events have medium fun, low reward, medium time = low percent
most dungeons have high fun, high reward, high time = medium percent

either increase the gold or karma rewards for these if you want people to play them. “increase” does not always mean “get more”. currently, karma is stupid cheap to get and nearly worthless to use. make it worth something, like being able to buy ascended stuff with it. Can you imagine how many people would be doing every low level zone events if you could buy ascended underwater breathing masks for 750,000 karma?

have people checked how multiple sources of -condition duration stack? options:
only the highest one counts (like run speed)
sequential: -40% + -15% + -10% means 10s becomes 6s becomes 5.1s becomes 4.59s (like the chance for proc-on-crit)
cumulative: -40% + -15% + -10% = -65% means 10s becomes 3.5s

as far as I know, everything has a chance of dropping essence. I think vets at least have a higher chance of dropping them, but I feel like I’ve gotten them from non-vet mobs as well…

my experience:
Warrior
Guardian
Elementalist
Thief
Mesmer
Ranger
Engineer
Necromancer

I have like 15 of each extra. I spent months collecting those. you should also have to spend months collecting them :P I have next to nothing to spend them on, but I have them :P
things regarding ascended crap I want Anet to change:
MF vials/globs/shards into random ascended item
salvage ascended items into 0-5 ecto and T6 fine mats
MF fractal weapon skins into random fractal weapon skin

pets get targeted… if you switch, the new pet is not killed. but you have to wait for the jade maw to find a new target. the really annoying thing is when dead pets get targeted.
I agree that sometimes having the pet be targeted is good, like when you’re out of crystals. but that rarely happens and most of the time I wish my clones would not be targeted – I shatter them asap on that fight.

I experience this sometimes when I use blink.
I think what the game does is this: where you land, if you’re near any enemy, it will face you in the direction of the nearest enemy. 99% of the time this is not the direction I want to be facing and wish it would keep me facing the same direction I was when I used the skill.

as for population density, the list of servers tells you how many players are in that server. You won’t see many players running around on a lot of the map, but there are many areas where there will be a lot of players. places like right in front of dungeons, meta events, dragon battles, Lion’s Arch, level 75+ areas. There will still be people wandering around looking to explore or gain levels. just ask in /map chat if anyone wants to team up to clear the zone you’re in.

I’m 90%, too! woot woot

depends on the type of lag.
the past week I’ve been experiencing the worst lag I’ve ever had on any game. only other time lagging on gw2 was minor and was back in oct or so. even the karka final boss event didn’t lag… just crash.
anyways:
if it’s your computer (computer problems), the frame rate will drop in high activity areas. maybe parts will get blurry
if it’s your connection to the server (lag), you will still be able to move your character, but no one else will move. they might continue running in the direction they were when the lag started. this might go on for half a second or, as has been happening to me the last few days, 10-60 seconds. after that time, your character will most likely be dead and everything else will jump to where it actually is while your guy was standing there doing nothing, as observed by someone else playing.
for your computer, not much you can do. decrease your graphics settings or get a better computer (prioritize really good cpu and graphics card)
for lag, most people just have chopping connections. if this is the case, you’d know it. it’s basically times when your internet turns off for a short time then comes back on. youtube might stop in the middle of videos, websites might take longer to load sometimes but not others, etc. check internet connections (unplug and replug the cables), maybe upgrade your modem or router, then maybe call your internet provider.
for lag, at least the lag I’ve been getting, I blame Arena Net. I know this because during one of the LONG lag times, I minimized the window and started watching a youtube video with zero problems. my internet is rock solid. Anet’s connection to me the past week has not been solid. it’s likely not Anet’s fault, btw. as not everyone is having problems, it’s more likely that there is a server that is in the internet backbone between Anet and me that is having intermittent problems.

a month after exchanging bows with people I read on here that that’s what most interpreted it as. NOT what I would of thought. after bowing I tried to walk by them, then escape when they attacked. They probably thought something was weird when I never attacked them once. /taunt should be the duel emote.