Guild Wars 2

Before it was released, Second wing was announced to have “comparable difficulty” to Spirit Vale. As someone who has done both wings dozens of times (not just once each week after reset, low man, no updrafts etc.) I am incredibly disappointed with the second wing. Sloth is a nice encounter (even if the timer is way too permissive), however Trio and Matt are too forgiving. In first wing, missing a green at VG is, most of the times, a wipe; not catching an updraft or low dps at Gorseval is a wipe, dying at Sabetha’s flamethrower is some of the times, a wipe. Second wing was completed hours after it was released; this is not ok. Trying to make raids more “accessible” by providing forgiving mechanics and permissive timers is not ok. I bought HoT for raids, not harder dungeons.

TL:DR Raids are not be Silverwastes or Tequatl. After first wing they look like they are going to keep getting butchered in order to become more “accessible”.

Vinceman.4572:

Yeah, obviously! Because we don’t have any further informations about that and we will hear from Anet when it’s time.

Thaddeus.4891:

Really people still asking this kind of question? It was obviously clear when HoT was introduced that the legendary armor won’t come until the Wing 3 will be in-game.

That’s why the forums are. So you could ask players and ANet some details that they might want to share. As for that quote, it doesn’t say anything, it’s obvious that the armor will come after wing 3; what has that to do with the questions in this topic?

Vinceman.4572:

What so? Look into that thread and you get an answer.

There is no information regarding anything in that thread. Only speculations.
Watch out before you post! Ty.

Vinceman.4572:

6th thread in this forum:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Notes-on-legendary-armor/

Watch out before you post! Ty.

So?

*Do we need to craft three sets (light/medium/heavy) or we will be able to move it between profession types (with the defense attribute changing)?
*How will the rune system work on the legendary armor?
*Will we get it implemented with the third raid wing or only the precursor?

The mechanic could be extended to different and new higher fractals in the future.
A different color defiance bar could indicate a temporary bar that, if not cc-ed, would grant the boss different boons.

In the new Cliffside Fractal the Archdiviner gets a defiance bar from time to time. This mechanic could be abit improved for higher level fractals; if you don’t break the bar in a time interval after it appears, the boss gets a non-removable buff. Think of the Thaumanova Anomaly: currently it has no defiance bar; from time to time during the fight it should get a defiance bar, that, if not removed in a small time interval, it gets some buffs (some stacks of might, retaliation) that can not be removed. Buffs might or might not expire after some time.

This is something I’ve written some time ago for my guild, I revised it and decided to also post it here. Please note that everything is speculation. Hope some people will find it useful.

Karma
Be it recipes to craft the armor or obsidian shards, karma will most probably be necessary in crating the legendary armor. Saving some karma might be a good idea when legendary armor is out.

Spirit Shards
Currently Bloodstone Shard’s description is “An orb of pure power used to create legendary weapons”. There’s a possibility it’s description will be changed for legendary armor or another type of shard based on spirit shards will be introduced. Same as for Karma you might want to save some.

Magnetite Shards
Based on the first two wings when the third wing be introduced it will have a vendor. Although the possibility is low there might be some gifts to purchase from it that will be required for the legendary armor based on Magnetite Shards.

Provisioner Token
Wiki description: “Provisioner Tokens are a currency earned by trading in a rare level 80 crafted weapon or armor to Faction Provisioners in various zones in Magus Falls. They are stored in the Account Wallet and can be spent at the Faction Provisioners.” A total of 300 provisioner tokens will be required in order to purchase 6 Gifts of Craftsmanship; each gift will be used to upgrade a piece of armor from precursor to legendary.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/48zlyd/im_mike_obrien_here_with_gw2_dev_team_ama/d0nx80s?context=1
Items for each vendor (only one item/one vendor/day)
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Faction_Provisioner
(It is far cheaper to craft those items rather than buying from TP)

Legendary Insights
Token obtained by defeating a raid boss first time that week. The number of legendary insights needed to craft the legendary armor is currently unknown. (Anet_AndrewM posted on reddit that they are still working on balancing the number required for legendary armor)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/48zlyd/im_mike_obrien_here_with_gw2_dev_team_ama/d0nx80s?context=1

Gift of Battle
Purchased from WvW for 500 Badges of Honor. It will be changed in the future to be reward at the end of a reward track; you might want to save 6×.

Ascended Materials

• Spiritwood Planks
• Elonian Leather Square
• Bolt of Damask
• Deldrimor Steel Ingot
  You can craft the above once each day. You might want to have a couple saved.
• Fulgurites https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fulgurite
• Crystalline Ore

Legendary Tokens/Items
*Gift of Maguuma and Gift of Insights
I don’t think the last component will be 250 Crystalline Ingots however those two combined with Bloodstone Shard and another type of token might be required to craft some armor based gift (similar to Gift of Maguuma Mastery). Six of these might be required.

Other tokens/mats/currencies you might consider saving

• Laurels
• T6 Mats (Vial of Powerful Blood, Ancient Bone, Vicious Claws, Piles of Crystalline Dust, Vicious Fangs, Armored Scales, Elaborate Totems, Powerful Venom Sacs) + Globes of Ectoplasm

Armorsmith, Tailor, Leatherworker to 500
For obvious reasons you might want to upgrade your crafting skill to 500 for these three disciplines.

Other
Other than those you might want to finish first 12 items in the legendary armor collection. The ascended armor you get after you finish the collection (probably is a full set (6 pieces)) will probably be used to craft the PRECURSOR for the legendary armor, not the legendary armor itself.
Please note that everything above is speculation.

Hey. Wanted to share some feedback regarding HoT and it’s Mastery System. Currently I’m mastery rank 166 and I’ve finished all HoT and Tyria masteries two or three weeks after HoT was released. After that when new legendaries were introduced I gathered 250 Crystalline Ore and 250 Ley Line Sparks plus some of the other currencies thinking I would make one of the HoT legendaries (never happened). Except for raid reset day (monday) I found no reason to step foot in the HoT maps. I don’t have any use for it’s experience and I’m not interested in doing any collections. I’ve done most of the map achievements. Only reason I might go back to HoT maps now is for the 6 Gifts of Craftmanship. There is really a need for a system where HoT/Tyria experience is used for something after masteries are done.

- Fractal Chests can be sold at vendor. TP Fractal Chests
- Anguished Tear of Alba has no effect. It doesn’t give +10 agony for the time period.
- Urban Battlegrounds final defend can still be bugged. If NPC gets knocked back you can skip the entire “protect” phase while doing nothing.
- Fractal Collection still bugged.
- No trail for golden weapons.

Please share yours.

Vendor disabled

I’m also +1 this post. Maybe it will get some attention.

I’m not able to log in for the last 8 hours. Any ETA when the problem will be really fixed?

EDIT: Solved, finally managed to enter.

I’m also stuck at fractal 90 because of that merchant. I need to get better agony infusions to do upper scales. Any ETA?

Can confirm. Got only 4 skins unlocked, have about 12 unlocked.

While buying Heart of Thorns I see there is a field where you can enter a promo code for a possible discount. Where I can find such code? To my knowledge companies such as Arenanet give them to streamers and youtubers to give them in giveaways but I heard of none so far.

I have been a ranger till Guild Wars. When Guild Wars 2 launched their first stress-test, I made a ranger. In beta, I played a ranger. Now, for almost one year, I only played a ranger.
I have a couple of suggestions that could improve the ranger.

The ranger is build around his pet. That’s why when his pet dies the ranger is capable of fighting at only 70-75% of his actual power.

My suggestion is the following:

1. “Ranger’s Fury”; when the ranger pet’s died he will receive a couple of bonuses (power, precision, thoughness, etc.) or some boons. (temporary or till the pet is revived or switched)

Hello! I got the Digital Edition of the game and today I wanted to update it to Digital Deluxe Edition. I bought it with 2000 gems from the “Black Lion Traiding Company”. I got everything it says except for the Mistfire Elite Wolf Skill.

I restarted the game a couple of times without the problem being resolved. This happened about 3-4 hours ago.

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/9531/gw733q.jpg

Also, when I enter the “Upgrades” tab, Digital Deluxe Edition is still there (waiting to be bought again with 2000 gems??!)

Fix this bug!

Thanks!