Guild Wars 2

Thanks for your posts.. I am still not sure why there is a difference, but at least it’s not just me noticing it..^^

Come to the mesmer forum and everything will be fine (or at least you will have some information you are interested in).. They “promised” us to fix it!

Have a look into the threads with the red flags:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer

I meant real money (and edited my post to clarify), but yeah.. you are right..
For me it doesn’t make any sense to convert ingame gold into gems either because it’s so expensive and would just eat up my whole ingame gold (I am around 6 gold I think..).. -.-
So I have to stay with the free goodies, they’ll give us. =)

I will not spend real money on gems to convert them into gold. -.-
I would love to spend it on gems to buy things like costumes (how they worked in gw and not the town clothes!), certain miniatures (e.g. a quaggan, not random miniatures), a super special weapon or armor skin (which are unlocked after buy and can be used as many times as I want), ..
Right now there is not one thing which I would buy and I will never and under no circumstances buy gems for real money to buy me appropriate weapons or armors ingame.

If I cannot progress with my characters anymore without spending gems (= for real money, but also counts for gems made from ingame gold) for it, then it’s time to leave. I don’t want to feel forced to buy gems (especially not for things a player should receive for free in a sufficient and fair quantity ingame during playing the game).

It’s so simple.

I don’t know why they don’t want to have my real money.. I would LOVE to spend it.. but right now there is nothing appealing.
Quite the opposite I feel they are pushing me away.

Derek, berserker is not working as intented right now, he is buggy. He has a too high delay after spawning before he damages and his attacks are sometimes missing and do less damage as they should. That results in berserker getting killed before he can do his damage.
They “promised” to fix him.

Could you also post that here? https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Let-s-debug-minion-AI/first#post985338

MangoMan.3218:

Just did, I’m happy with my new name: Braakt. He’s a mesmer, really like it so far.

Congratulation for that name and enjoy your mesmer!
:-)

Can you all please test if there was a change after the patch today?
I am wondering whether I had a lucky day or they’ve done something. ^^

Humm, I got a lot of crap and some porous bones (-.-), but I also got a yellow one and 3 (!!) dyes (they dropped in a row..).

And we also noticed that every veteran and champion gave us loot today (blue).

phaneo.4597:

Alright, thanks for clarifying. Hope the other things are atleast a little useful or worthy of selling. Once I’m at home later, shall check this in-game to see if anything has changed (hope I managed to find any party doing events that used to give nice loots like Plinx). Entire CS is Cursed these days on my server.

Yeah, I think it is worth a try.

I was just thinking that with the patch they restarted the servers (or whatever, the dynamic events, which did not work before, are now all active and working.. at least these which I came by..).. could that alone have affected an improvement or did they change something additionally?
(That would be only interesting if other people notice improved loot ^^)

I’ll have a look at Orr..

phaneo.4597:

Navi.7142:

Did something happen to the loot after they patched it today?
I am not sure, but I am missing hooves xD

U mean they even nerfed junk trophies?

No.. I got more other stuff instead of hooves. At least I think so, could be random.

Did something happen to the loot after they patched it today?
I am not sure, but I am missing hooves xD

Oh, epees would be great for mesmers and thieves. O.o

Orbs (1H or 2H). Scythe (2H). Totem Figure (Off Hand).

We could also figure out who could receive which weapon.

In my opinion (I included your suggestions):

ele: tome, orb, totem figure
mesmer: orb, whip, main hand pistol or totem figure
guardian: orb or tome, polearm, totem figure
warrior: 2h axe, polearm, off hand dagger
ranger: crossbow, whip, claws or totem figure
necro: tome or orb, scythe, claws or totem figure
thief: crossbow, 1h axe, whip
engi: rocket launcher, 2h axe (that combination gives me some crazy ideas ^^), 1H axe

How about a Elite signet? xD

Signet of illusionary haste
passive: gives you 15% movement speed
active: cripples up to five foes for 10 sec and roots you in place for 3 sec
or immobilize up to five foes for 4 sec and cripples you for 2 sec

like: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Illusion_of_Haste

May not be balanced, but it sounded fun. And yeah, I was only thinking for pve. ^^

They could revert signet of inspiration to what it was before (in bwe?) or they give it a new (speedy?) passive effect.. whatever.. caaaaaan’t wait!

:-)

Wow, sounds promising!

In pve whenever someone has a speed buff signet I just can’t keep up with them.

But a nice new thread to invade.. ehm.. I intended to write " to mention the loot issue" ^^

- appropriate loot rates
- professions with as few bugs as possible -> at least let them – especially the mesmer – (again) work properly in pve

But maybe we would all agree that a mini Avatar of the Tree would be great?

Do you mean Magister Sieran?

And Trahaerne just fit in too well to make a little fun of his controversial personality xD

Yeah, it would be the same problem as a seller already has..

I am not saying that it should be there either way, just that this problem would not exist only related to a buyer.. ^^

Congratulations, Drew!

f.u.l.l.y = fully
f.u.r.t.h.e.r = further

TrevorEh.6915:

^ I have no idea what he’s talking about… all Phantasms are broken. Except the Mariner for whatever reason…..

But:

It’d be cool to get a link to the post you mentioned in the other forum.

Oh, I hope I didn’t sound like he did confirm any mesmer related things, he just wrote a few things related to ranger issues here (~ 3 days ago):
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Ranger-Movement-Speed/first

And here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/longbow-shots-really-REALLY-slow/page/2#post959195

And again here for thieves:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/What-are-some-ways-P-P-can-be-made-favorable/first

He did not come back to us in the mesmer forum and that led to my assumption that he is totally aware of what we wrote (and we provided him with lots of information and material) and doesn’t need any other information. If he would have needed them, he could have jumped into our thread before/ after he had time to look and write into the other forums. He knows that we have severe bugs which must be fixed in the next update.

Logical? At least for me. :-D

EDIT: Found another one:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Generell-questions-about-kits-sigils

wildcode, that is exactly my new speculation, I’ll quote myself:

“Maybe until recently it was too easy and fast leveling up to 80, so they decided to extend the time of game-playing by cutting down the experience and loot you get.
That way you need longer to level up and to receive appropriate loot (like green armor pieces which would improve your game-play).
^^”

What are you talking about???

The toys could be miniatures, that would be cool xD

sylvari: mini Trahaerne (:D)
human: mini Countess Anise
charr: mini Tybalt
asura: mini Tixx
norn: mini Kodan
….

and Xmas gift would be: mini quaggan O.o <3

Anthony, I think your brain was too fast.. in your first sentence you meant “Wintersday” instead of the first written “Halloween”?

And speaking of Toys… maybe for the toy slot?
Combined with race… a racial toy can be equipped in its own toy slot?? :p

So by mistake you completed the dungeon story mode instead of doing your last story step/ quest “Victory or Death”?
What does your personal storyline tell you? Is it still “Kill Zhaitan!” ???

KyleQuest.4639:

The drop rate must be incredibly low on them.

Since the November patch the drop rate is pretty bad/ low in general.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Loot-Drop-Rate-Bug/first
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Change-in-loot-parameters-or-a-bug-Merged/first

And yesss, account wide dyes (like they promised us long before the game released) would be awesome! <3

According to that thread I’ve found another possible reason for the lootdropbugnerf:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Experience-nerf/first#post968248

Vamistle.9710:

hmm well that’s complete rubbish. So now not only is grinding mats for legendaries a pain but they want to make lvling up to 80 a pain as well. Oh well. thnx for the fast reply.

Maybe until recently it was too easy and fast leveling up to 80, so they decided to extend the time of game-playing by cutting down the experience and loot you get.
That way you need longer to level up and to receive appropriate loot (like green armor pieces which would improve your game-play).
^^

Sometimes it comes into my mind that a “we intentionally decreased loot to [insert a reason here]” would be also helpful for many players.
That way we can decide how to proceed e.g. leaving the game, adapting to the new situation or whatever…
But right now it is a lot of speculation WHY it is there and WHAT will WHEN be done..

I really hope they are costumes (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Costume), but I think they will be town clothes -.-

What is your graphic setting for “shaders”?

We had a similar topic about that and figured out that shaders on medium or high can make it very “shiny”. ^^
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/races/sylvari/My-beautiful-hair/first#post320655
And here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Black-Dye/first#post292055

Thank you very much!

Maybe I would consider it if anet would announce it as a bug in co-op and saying they will fix it in the future.
But why should we do a workaround for something which they are obviously not aware of or not willing to fix?
We are allowed to decide to do our personal storyline in co-op and unless that special storyline doesn’t require only ONE person to enter, I can expect do continue in co-op, can’t I?

Well, it is more as a matter of priciple, I guess.. but otherwise they need to fix it sooner or later? Better for them to know that there is a bug which only occurs in co-op.

Cheers.

I will never understand why they didn’t implement costumes like they did it in gw.
It was such a great system and I loved to spend my money for it. Nearly bought every costume availabe in gw. ^^ (Compared to gw2 where I did not once purchase gem armor skin or town clothes.)

I would like to see it again, to buy a costume that will be unlocked for every character on my account and can be used unlimited times (and for all characters at the time if I want to). This costumes should be wearable in a fight.
And of course there should be a NPC where I can get it again and again and again.. they could use the HOM guy for that. ^^

<3

Sometimes I pretend myself to be a ritu. (Actually I enjoy having 2in1, it’s like Buy one, get one free! xD)

There are no tight pants without a skirt, I just tested all armor options on my mesmer. ^^
You can craft pants, but they look oriental.

But I just found out that I really like the ac pants, although they have a skirt, too.

I try to get something like this (I mixed up a few thing which I already have and don’t have in the preview):

Any news regarding that bug? :-(

As I just read the comments Jon posted recently in the ranger forum, I assume now that he is aware of what we wrote in our mesmer threads and that he does not need any information anymore.

Furthermore I now think the 14th december patch will:
1. fix the phantasm delay to a point which is as closest to 0 sec delay or at least 0.25 sec
2. fix the berserker missing AND damage problem

Apart from that the mesmer and his bugs have a long way to go, but that will help a lot to instantly restore mesmers to what they have been before they got massively bugged by the two last patches.

No, it doesn’t.
For me it is the same everywhere in pve.
But you could be right that loot from the risen is worse compared to bad loot from other mobs.

More porous bones or hooves are really needed -.-

Yesterday I got 45 bags (with e.g. butter, chocolate, totems..) and 26 hooves.. and I went several times to the vendor to sell stuff, so it must have been way more bags and hooves.
A lot of junk and whites and blues, some greens, but no yellow(s).

That’s not very fun and not really rewarding, I feel like they don’t want me to play pve content. And I don’t want to feel forced to do dungeons or fractals to receive appropriate loot.

For white you can try blue ice dye and for black iron.

Today I had 45 bags (which contain things like butter and chocolate and totems and so on..) and 26 hooves (again!) and I did spoke to the vendor several times during completing that zone I was doing (so it must have been way more hooves and bags).
And also a lot of whites and blues, some greens, no yellows.. ^^

Yeah great.. definitely a very good run.. not… -.-

You could have a look at the race elites and then decide which could be interesting for you.

I play a female human mesmer and most of the time I use balthazars hounds in pve, because for me it makes the most sense. ^^ (I do not really like the mesmer elites)

However, I decided for human not for the racial skill, but rather I wanted to recreate my ritu from gw and that was the closest thing I could manage to do. ^^

I also think a human female as mesmer looks pretty cool.

wow, your title is a little bit misleading xD

you can travel to the starter areas for free. press “b” and go to the wvwvw, then use the asura portal to lions arch and then use the asura portal to whatever starter area (capital city of each race) you want to go..

you can get enough money (for traveling) by completing every zone you are doing.

I tested something and have a question. I summoned (^^) three phantasms and shattered them on a dummy. The tool tip from mindwrack says they should hit for 3x 1026, but instead it does 3x 731.
Noob question: Does it work correctly (e.g. dummies have armor which decreases the damage from 1026 to 731), is the tool tip not describing properly or is it a bug?
Thanks a lot. It is the first time I had a closer look by pommeling the dummies. ^^