Guild Wars 2

why do you have this many? what do you think they’re used for?

paying that much per charge means it’s only worth it to rip out +10 agonys, and maybe not even then.

One of the more laughably absurd gem items really

Tough call!
you guys be the judges.

i would maybe talk to support about the possibility of un-deleting a character. that might allow you to (tomporarily) delete the character whose name you want to usurp, then have them restored – they presumably would need to be renamed since a character would exist with their old name.

might be able to get it done with just one.

borgs.6103:

They should make a karma/badge salvage kit:
0% chance to recover any materials, 100% to recover rune/sigil but makes it account bound.

y’no, i could defs get behind that.

snowfall indeed. for the superior at least, the fall damage reduction is 25% from 4pc. i think it stacks additively with the trait

Misguided.5139:

Sledge Stone.9017:

No, thats my point. Necro axe 1 should be changed to melee. We already have scepter for medium range and with necro axe as it is now, nobody will use it.

Except a power necro wouldn’t want to use a scepter.

I don’t want to use axe, either. Staff is much better, when you consider the multi target/higher DS dmg/high burst of marks 3&4

Axe should hit at least an extra time in its current cast space. Hell, if that’s too much of an overcompensation (for the low damage, i can’t see it…) then just make it a 1-2-3 chain – 2 hits, a third harder hit, and then a final pulse where you ‘rip life force from your target’

would make axe a good weapon for maintaining life force if nothing else.

i never expect to get into a ‘main’ teq instance if i don’t show up 45 in advance.

The later ones may fill up but in my experience (and seemingly yours), success rate is… low.

Fox.3469:

Oreithyia.3064:

i thought it would be nice to have a book about all events in LS1 in the Durmand Priory and/or the library in Divinity’s Reach, so when people are interested they can read what happened out of the view of a scholar.
Or you have one NPC in the cities tell you the whole story, when talking to them.
I think it is far easier to make this than make videos with actual voice acting about it, to inform the new or returning players.

That’s actually not a bad idea!

Iunno, reading a book about a game inside the game to find out what’s already happened in the game…

apart from anything else, this game doesn’t have a very good ‘book’ interface built in, and it would be likely a reasonable amount of work to implement one.

The video cutscenes in this game are mostly static images as is, they could do one of those to quickly run through the events of s1, or at least the important bits which the LSS2 ties back into.

of course, i can’t guess how easy or difficult it would be but it would mostly be an art team thing, which maybe? is easier to pull off at this stage of development of the expansion?

Wanze.8410:

Actually, I think BL Salvage kits and their 100% chance to recover upgrades are one of the main reasons the upgrade component market is messed up and I wouldnt mind, if they take them out of the game, along with the upgrade extractor.

Because it made us think about upgrade components as permanently retrievable and reusable and not as a consumable, like it should be.

OK, the BL Kits were introduced to generate gem sales but as you stated, most of the players generate enough of those for their use through drops and login rewards, so i doubt that people actually pay real money for gems to buy them.

In my opinion upgrade components should work like consumables or crafting materials, once you put them on gear, there shouldnt be a 100% chance to retrieve them again.

I even think that the 80% chance of master kits is too high.

The problem there is that upgrades then become the province of the rich & elite. Strength runes are 15g apiece as is; tell me that wouldn’t double, triple or more if people couldn’t retrieve them from armour.

Actually, on that note… those runes would become unable to be found except through mystic forging, which would artificially inflate the price of upgrades across the board. I doubt there’d be anything more lucrative than crafting major or even minor upgrades to sell.

Wanze.8410:

Narrrz.7532:

i think that salvage kits should work as they did in gw1, ie giving the option to remove an upgrade rather than retrieving materials. If used this way, the chance to preserve the armor is twice what the chance to preserve the upgrade would be now, so using a masters/mystic kit or better ensures that the armor is not destroyed.

from an economic POV, the balancing factor to this would be that if you’re concerned with preserving the upgrade, you use up charges twice as fast when salvaging gear for materials. depending on what you’re salvaging, this might not be cost-effective.

all existing upgrade extractors should be turned into a permanent one, and everyone who has bought and consumed upgrade extractors should receive the permanent one in the mail. if the number you’ve bought exceeds the gem store cost of the new permanent upgrade extractor (which essentially just pulls out upgrades at no cost or risk), then there should be some kind of compensation/refund proportional to what was spent.

So how will exotic upgrade components be consumed in the future if you can reuse them indefinately? Or we just wait until they flood the market and all of them are at vendor value.

Then we go back to the forums and complain that the unlimited upgrade extractor, which we paid 1000 gems for, is basically worthless because its cheaper to buy the upgrade components at vendor price from the tp.

mmm… you have a point.

perhaps, then, allow a use of the salvage kit to attempt to remove an upgrade at the salvage kit’s return rate but with no risk to the parent item. If you fail to remove the upgrade, it is destroyed.

So you can still burn a black lion salvage kit charge to guarantee an extraction, or take the 50/50 risk of using a mystic/masters (which, while it would be devastating to destroy an upgrade with a failure, would still at least give you the possibility of returning the upgrade)

As a possible fringe benefit, this would potentially chew through a great many of the huge number of black lion kits already out there (i know i for one have one on every character and another one for each of them in my bank; i’ve likely used at least that many in my time since i started playing)

ugh please just fix the animation already ><

RIP Royal Ascalonian Axe

we have to wait for marjory to do it first

that’s 5 applications, not 5 stacks. so if you apply 5 2second chills, you will not be able to further extend the duration until the first of those 2-second durations has expired.

i wouldn’t bat an eyelid at seeing a male sylvari or female human with that name. Other races… asura i don’t think it’d be unusual, charr or norn it would kindof stick out, but really, in that case i’d just assume it’s a reference to something i don’t know about

just tested it again and was able to reproduce. If there are no other combat targets available once you’ve been eaten, your character is not properly spat out again and though you can fully interact with the world, nothing will aggro on you (though if you can summon minions you can force combat; your character is in no actual danger though so long as you don’t attempt to catch any projectiles with your face)

honestly i just wish that buying extra bag slots applied to all characters. right now it’s seriously inconvenient having to buy each extra bag slot for every character

not immediately, but if you get more than you can use, the value won’t rise, and sooner or later it will hit that ‘worthless’ point.

alright, overdramatization, but the champion hylek at Ogotl grounds in Brisban Wildlands used a move which apparently ate me and then, when it spat me back out, left me completely invisible (not even the stealth outline) and able to attack mobs without drawing aggro. This has persisted even after waypointing within the zone.

Edit: fixed by logging out to character select, but highly exploitable regardless.

edit 2: i think the cause of this is the mob resetting while you’re untargetable in its stomach

i think that salvage kits should work as they did in gw1, ie giving the option to remove an upgrade rather than retrieving materials. If used this way, the chance to preserve the armor is twice what the chance to preserve the upgrade would be now, so using a masters/mystic kit or better ensures that the armor is not destroyed.

from an economic POV, the balancing factor to this would be that if you’re concerned with preserving the upgrade, you use up charges twice as fast when salvaging gear for materials. depending on what you’re salvaging, this might not be cost-effective.

all existing upgrade extractors should be turned into a permanent one, and everyone who has bought and consumed upgrade extractors should receive the permanent one in the mail. if the number you’ve bought exceeds the gem store cost of the new permanent upgrade extractor (which essentially just pulls out upgrades at no cost or risk), then there should be some kind of compensation/refund proportional to what was spent.

well remember that:

-you don’t need world completion
-your character isn’t you
-this is all a work of fiction

if you cannot bring yourself to betray your personal values, even in the context of roleplaying a character in a fictitious setting, that may be irreconcilable with your desire for 100% completion. requesting the devs change it is an option, but holds the potentially to impact other players game experience (possibly negatively) and is the first step on the admittedly slippery slope of knee-jerk censorship.

Also, the argument could be made that sweeping all examples of culture destruction under the rug is to dishonor the real cases where culture destruction has occurred.

i think people are being a bit shortsighted about this.
There are two scenarios: the former is our present situation.

a) The total available quartz is too little for every account to produce a charged crystal everyday without running through their stockpile or buying to supplement. Quartz is valuable.
b)The total available quartz means that every account can produce a charged crystal every day. Not all do, because of laziness/ignorance/some other reason, but every day someone wishes to charge quartz, they can acquire enough without buying any. Quartz’ value falls to the highest someone is willing to pay to save them the trouble of harvesting it themselves, which will probably be at or barely above vendor value.

Everyone complaining about the shortage of quartz is effectively asking that it be made worthless.

i think it’s more that we have no reason to think that elona couldn’t happen in the future. Whereas Cantha’s future is in significantly more doubt

could we please have all crafts in the ‘ectoplasm refinement’ category performable by all crafting disciplines that can go up to 500?

i have every crafting skill maxed out but because of the way i set them up (huntsman/artificer ; weaponsmith/armorsmith ; leatherworker/tailor) i’m unable to do all my ectoplasm refinement on any single character. even if i’d bought the additional crafting license (which didn’t exist when i assigned tradeskills) and gone with the ‘optimal’ setup of weapon/artifice/hunt & tailor/leather/armor i still wouldn’t be able to do this as no armorcrafter can make spirit residue & no weapon crafter can do the weaving thread.

i imagine it’s probably just an oversight that it be unable to be done except by specific unintuitive tradeskill combinations, so i’m hoping this isn’t a suggestion anyone would have any objections to.

Endless Soul.5178:

Narrrz.7532:

right, kryta was quite african before, wasnt’ it?

I’ve always felt it was more Polynesian of possibly South American.

ahh yeah, you could easily be right

TERraTRIIx.3194:

Basically I have the tempered spinal blades and I’ve had them for a while, but I’ve wanted to upgrade them to the static assault knight ones, and at the currency price it would cost me 180 gold minimum just for the 10 cores, and this price is going to keep rising…

Yeah, it cost me something like 15g for the first colour, 25ish for the second, and 40 for the final third. i was fortunate enough to be present when the actual event was a thing and even got a few core drops. That final set of tempered blades cost an arm and a leg to get the blades for though…

I agree that there’s no reason for the price to be THIS high. backpieces as a rule are expensive, but as the scarcity of materials grows ever greater, these ones are becoming excessive even by that high standard.

A low drop rate from an isolated instance will preserve the exclusivity without allowing the prices to get (more) ridiculous.

the problem with these traits, as i see it, is that you only want them for a very brief space of time, and then want an easy way to switch them out. Or if you leave them in, it’s because literally nothing else in that trait tier is of any utility at all.

just make it so that falling out of combat causes half damage. leave in things like snowfall runes for people who love jps/etc. Roll the actual skill-trigger-on-taking-fall-damage into some other passive trait – i think i suggested the traits that trigger when your health falls below a certain percentage in another thread.

Need? no. All it is is a variation on the current control effects.

Do we need all the control effects we currently have? probably not. Would we miss their removal? Probably.

Will we miss taunt if its removed a year after release? probably.

Rym.1469:

I don’t get people who say “yeah, make it auto-follow”.
Isn’t it exactly opposite of what Tablet is supposed to do?

I mean, you use Will to move it through allies, you can send it somewhere you can hardly step into (like enemy zerg/frontline).

What would be the point of the Tablet if it just auto-followed the Revenant? Then we could just get rid of it and make healing proc in radius around the caster himself…

Sure, Tablet has to auto-summon when you swap to Ventari, sure it should have bigger range and travel much faster, but I like the idea and it seems like most people don’t seem to understand the concept.

every tried skillshotting with a ground target? where you actually need the projectile to pass through the target, not just end at the same point as them?

that skill is simply unworkable in practice. It would make much more sense for it to be an aoe around the revenant, and be able to be traited for a ground target burst. Think the guardians f2 passive with the active now at a target location rather than just in a radius around them.

because your reflexes are not that good/these things have a long cooldown/you have higher than average latency/you generally prefer not to go down after a single slip up

I run roughly zerk on pretty much all my toons, but for example my necro has sacrificed 10% crit and 10% crit damage to get over 3k toughness, which basically makes me immortal in most pve situations and takes the stress and frustration out of ordinary play.

i think what he was trying to say is that 4x 0 is still 0.

FrizzFreston.5290:

A thief is more than just stealth

unlike the other mmo’s listed

well that don’t mention what PART of it will be challenging. the challenge might be “identify the boss model”

you’re confusing ‘quality’ with ‘rarity’. most items in the game salvage into one particular tier of mats; only level 75+? i believe? have a chance to salvage to a higher, ie, the topmost tier.

t6 mats aren’t considered to be different rarity from t5 (rarer though they may be). They’re simply higher quality. no salvage kit aids with that (yet, to my knowledge)

now, if you were to buy up aetherized metal salvage and post the rate of charged lodestone return, that would be a very interesting piece of information.

Killyox.3950:

They already said they don’t want tablet to feel like a pet with following.

no, it’s a pet you have to manually summon and constantly execute ground target skills just to get it to follow

hence this thread.

i believe (based on the mechanics of everywhere else in the game) that MF doesn’t even affect sw chests, rather, it just multiplies drop odds based on buff stacks.
i don’t think your mf from other sources is taken into consideration even then, and for all the free mf it offers, silverwastes is awful for item finding simply because event associated mobs cannot drop loot.

rarer = “of higher rarity”

ectos, insignias, anything else of better-than-white rarity that can drop (except luck, i would assume)

using it on greens & blues is a fantastic way to spend 20x more than you need to.

i feel like it should follow you and all its effects should target you. instead of the movement skill, the tablet causes you to emit a pulse of healing, perhaps on a 10sec cooldown and roughly 3x the power of its current passive tick. The ventari elite shatters the tablet for a space of time to increase its heal effect to everything in a huge radius.

Then you can just give us a trait to make all these skilsl ground targeted which causes the tablet to quickly fly there and cast the effect.

AdaephonDelat.3890:

Golgathoth.3967:

The new dailies aren’t too bad in my opinion, except for one thing.

One of my main uses of dailies in the past was to help level my alts. Completing the full daily was a pretty good xp boost, and there were some less large boosts for the individual parts. There doesn’t seem to be any associated xp now. Not a huge issue, but I do find it lackluster.

You get the XP scrolls now which can be used by any character under 80 (gives 5% of a level) or save 20 of them up and buy a Tome of Knowledge from Miyani at the Mystic Forge (or any forge attendant I believe?) which will give you one level.

The xp scrolls are the way to go for levelling. if you’re 0% progress to your next level, they’re exactly equal, scaling down in effectiveness to tome of knowledge being significantly worse when you’re right on the cusp of levelling.

StinVec.3621:

Indeed. There are still several enemies and bosses in the game that I have no idea what they look like after 3 years other than what I can see in their picture when I target them.

pic related.

no, skill points spent are permanent. i guess the new ui doesn’t make this super apparent though.

by level 80 you will have enough points to unlock everything, though.

Basandra Skye.4031:

Unfortunately it doesnt matter whether or not WE think if it’s okay or not. Anet’s stance, thus their enforcement of it, is that selling paths and fractals is allowed, and buyers beware.

It’s seller beware too. There’s nothing to stop someone from simply not forking over the money.

wait… we do? who?

marjory isn’t canthan… is she?

now THAT likely counts as harassment. you almost certainly can be penalized for that

I want to see rifle revenant.

right, kryta was quite african before, wasnt’ it?

ultimately i think what’s needed is some clear interest from asian (and…mediterranean? middle eastern? where was elona meant to be?) in a return to cantha (and elona). So that NCSoft knows they won’t be alienating a large portion of their playerbase.

The… ‘simple’, i guess, resolution would just be to make cantha less unambiguous asian. evolve it, incorporate other cultural elements, create something distinct from kryta/ascalon but still not clearly paralleling a real world culture.

right, but since the other modes are smaller thee’s not really any room for specific achieves. Imagine if you had a ‘legacy of the foefire winner’ achieve. That would just be silly.

The same principle still applies to pve. The fact that there’s a much larger area isn’t really relevant. It’s still a small-to-tiny subset of the entire game area and the odds are that it’s out of the way. There’s no need for it to be that way, nobody benefits from it being that way – why make it/keep it that way?

my understanding is that if you want to give your money to another player, you’re allowed. If they choose to do something in anticipation of or because you’ve given them money, that’s their choice.

Anet offers no guarantees, though.

Ayrilana.1396:

You keep talking about the three game types and as if they should all be separate and isolated. We don’t have a daily (the overall daily, not the individual achievements) for PvP, WvW, and PvE; we have one for the entire game. This was what I was saying that you were not getting as you kept referring to PvE in all of your arguments.

I get it that you’re a PvE-only player and prefer to play only that. Unfortunately this restricts you to four achievements by your own choice. You don’t need daily achievements to reward you for playing what you find fun. If you do need daily achievements for this, then I would seriously think about whether what you find fun is actually fun.

So the other game modes should get a daily for the play they find fun, but pve should not?

just making sure of your position.