Guild Wars 2

Malcastus.6240:

The blast of the shield should though. Would be sweet.

According to wiki, it already works this way.

Do you have enough gold for the 5% listing fee?

^If you were buying them, wouldn’t it make sense for him to keep listing more of the item like that?

But anyway, while it’s definitely someone playing TP or manipulating or whatever you want to call their business tactics, this type of behavior is more likely to be human. After all, a bot is far from necessary to use for such simple and small amount of transactions. And the undercut amount has little to do with it being bot or human here imo, seeing as bots would be more useful for rapid 1c undercuts than large ones.

And while 1c undercuts are most common, large ones aren’t that odd either, since they encourage faster sales by flippers or some other opportunistic buyer. Though I’ve only done it when I wanted to unload a large amount of cheap mats quickly.

If you craft it yourself, you get the same item as well as experience. Therefore the mats are more valuable.

Lexandro.1456:

The gem store in game is accessed via the TP. I assumed people would understand that with the TP shorthand.

Um no… The gem store is accessed via Black Lion Trading Company. Trading Post is also accessed through Black Lion Trading Company, but gem store and TP are different areas. The difference is TP= buying from players with gold; the item is generated somewhere else. Gem store= buying from Arena Net with gems.

What do you mean by selling a skin via TP? Do you mean the gem store? Because TP is players selling to players. Anyway, I don’t thinkt hey had “skin” items that just affect item appearance except for gems items before, and that’s why it was introduced as non max tier armor. That way it’d still be paying for skin.

Point is, you were only meant to be paying for the skin, thus stats don’t matter. So it shouldn’t be about the stats matching the price, but the looks matching the price. I don’t really see why you’re so fixated on those stats.

I think they make them rare quality so when you buy them, you’re paying for the skin alone.
This is because they’re supposed to serve as prestigious skins to show off your wealth. Kind of how legendaries are incredibly expensive because they look awesome. Unfortunately, cultural armors don’t really look good enough to fit this role (imo).

Even if you craft it yourself, you’re just buying most of the mats off of the TP. The only parts you do yourself are the 1mil karma, dungeon gift, gift of battle and 340 skill points, all of which are easier than farming the gold for mats and pre cursor.

I think its fine. Legendaries are just a large gold sink anyway. If people can sell them then the tax is applied to that sale as well as the mat sales, so it’s more effective.

Seriously? Dang, that’s a major change. I don’t understand why they don’t include these things into the patch notes -.-

I mean, the guys who use it (and thus the only ones who would complain) are going to find out anyway.

Minion of Vey.4398:

I certainly agree.

Though I wonder why we keep hearing that bunker eles are basically untouched. I’ve heard it in about 10 different threads now.

Mobility is nerfed (RTL)
Survivability is nerfed (Less regen and vigor)
Damage is nerfed (Less fury).

Because soothing disruption and zephyr’s boon were stealth nerfs, so people who don’t play eles won’t know about them by just reading the patch notes.

But anyway, what was the nerf to renewing stamina? I didn’t see anything posted about it elsewhere.

Stealth nerfs (or at least some of them): Soothing disruption now only gives 5 seconds of regeneration and vigor. Shocking Aura now only gives 5 seconds of swiftness and fury when used with zephyr’s boon.

I don’t understand why they can’t just tell us everything -.-

I don’t really understand the “if he dies in mf gear, he’ll die in regular gear too” argument tbh. If you switch to knights, you’ll be 2/3 of the direct damage you were before.

That’s like an extra layer of permanent protection. Even if someone’s not a good player, that’s still gonna make him much more likely to survive. Especially if he’s only dying dying by a fair margin, since it would now take 1.5x more direct damage to kill him.

There’s more than just extremes in skills, so those extra stats can make quite the difference. If he’s dying a lot, it’d probably be worthwhile to switch to a set of non mf gear, it’ll help him die less even if he’s as unskilled as before.

As for the rewarding player skill thing, using mf means contributing less to the team, so I don’t think sharing mf is too crazy of an idea or anything to add as a party option.

Edit: The main point is, if he sucks in mf gear, it’s true he’ll probably still suck in normal gear, but at least he’ll suck less.

It could be that it’s an undercut by a large amount for fast sales, and in small quantities in case another person undercuts that offer.

Of course trying to artificially lower the price is definitely possible too, but then wouldn’t it be easier to offer a large quantity to do it?

Sell orders doesn’t equal demand because people will horde commodities and because some people will sell instantly instead of placing an order.

Buy orders doesn’t necessarily mean demand because a lot of people will buy instantly instead of placing buy orders and because there are also a lot of “false” buy orders at very low prices

Probably some other reasons I’m missing on each of them though.

Just do the daily and get the ascended ring?

Kilrain Daggerspine.6843:

Hard to get ascended rings? started fractals about 3 days ago, today I got 2 infused ascended rings, one from drop and another from upgrading.

And while I have been quite lucky with my ring drop, the chance of you going several days without a ring drop from 10 or 20 chest is absurdly low, and if you don’t luck out on a infused ring, then put the work in and farm the ingreds to infuse it yourself.

Seems like you however have had some rather bad luck, I do however strongly suggest you pop a 50% mf buff before doing maw, both days I did I got a ring.

MF doesn’t affect chests to my knowledge.

I had a similar problem, but only around 7k (5k left now), I decided I’ll just use mine for exotics in case my ranger ever makes it to 80.

What I don’t get is, why did so many people insist on “rez-rushing” the bomb room in path 2? It takes just as long to just beat down the mobs and you didn’t have to die that way.

Silentsins.3726:

Interesting… except we weren’t discussing how MF reduces your performance, but how much it matters. None of that got you to “socially evil and undesirable stat”, did it? That would be a Red Herring, if I’m not mistaken.

This is the problem here. How much it matters is very subjective, so most mf proponents will think it reduced performance doesn’t matter much, while people against it think reduced performance is a significant issue. So that’s all this arguement really is “does it matter to you?”, seeing as any facts are just dismissed as it doesn’t matter…

That’s probably how he got to the “socially evil and undesirable stat” thing too, so it’s not unrelated, he’s just saying it matters to him.

As for the unskilled/undergeared, it’s mostly because they don’t choose to be be that way and would gladly be skilled and well geared if they had the option, whereas mf users make the choice to nerf their performance.
And honestly, running full blues/whites can get hate/disapproval/noob status from a fair amount of people as well. (Although not necessarily anti-mf people.)

Zaxares.5419:

Lionguard Lyns will be leaving permanently soon, so whatever you do, spend your Commendations now!

Eh really? When/where did they say this?
Well thanks for the warning, I guess I’ll get my ranger some more rares and rampager’s exotics then since that’s the only option that doesn’t flood my bank.

Oh sorry, that’s probably a sign that I should go to sleep soon…
It might be gold sellers that are trying to keep the prices high. Or at least that’s what I’ve heard before.

Doesn’t spidy’s sell order price just reflect the current lowest sell order? There were only two changes, one to 820 and one to 990. But yeah I see what you mean, it seems odd that dusks would be bought in a short time span without the intent to drive up prices.

It’s about time they gave us a reason to res the random dead npcs after we already had our heart filled XD

edit: Whoops didn’t notice you meant the fractal skin weapons.
In that case I agree with the below post. Just bank it for another character to use if you like the skin. Even if your not big on alts, you might start a second character later.

Btw, from the rules of conduct-
“You may not use any third-party program (such as a “bot”) in order to automate gameplay functions, including playing, chatting, interacting, or gathering gold or items within Guild Wars 2."

Derk.3189:

Yep, bannable. You’re using something that lets you do something ‘faster’ and ‘better’ without doing it yourself.

It’s not really giving him an in game advantage. It’s only better because he doesn’t have to strain his fingers clicking so much :p

Unfortunately, they probably still take mf into consideration as if it did have nearly full efficiency when deciding drop rates

Well you could always do wvw and get a karma train going by going from event to event. Supply camps would probably be the best choice btw, since they also have one or two dolyaks in them for extra even rewards, as well as a flag near each one.

Right now you can only add a utility infusion to a laurel amulet. (But I could be wrong)

Nibiru.1423:

Navzar.2938:

Honestly, the best way is to save up jugs of karma and then use ice cream+ guild banner+ guild buff+ booster for 175% karma and open them all.

Now there’s also an infusion that gives +15% karma if you want to use that as well, but you can only get it and the item you can add it to with laurels.

does said +15% ascended infusions give +15% more karma from jugs?

No one knows since it’s impossible to have gotten enough laurels for the amulet and infusion already.
But it probably does since the other karma effects work on jugs, except for outmanned in wvw which is bugged and doesn’t work at all for karma.

Honestly, the best way is to save up jugs of karma and then use ice cream+ guild banner+ guild buff+ booster for 175% karma and open them all.

Now there’s also an infusion that gives +15% karma if you want to use that as well, but you can only get it and the item you can add it to with laurels.

No. Two handed weapons already deal 10% more damage than one handed weapons. Although it takes away the ability to choose, this is stronger (and usually better) than a sigil.

Valky.2703:

I go to karka island still. Usually to test new builds and see how quickly and efficiently I can shred a karka

Curious, veteran or young?

If they didn’t want farming, they probably shouldn’t have added mf to begin with seeing as that’s mostly what it’s for.

When supply is really low the price can fluctuate easily because when one is bought, it will go to the next like regular items. But unlike regular items, there isn’t really the 1c undercut here so there’s a good difference in price. This means you can have listings like 900g, 800g, 600g. If the 600g is bought, then the price goes up 33% to 800g. The high listing fee on these items also means people won’t be taking them down to relisting them at a lower price for undercutting either.
^just posted this to explain how it can move up in price so quickly in two days.

And of course anything too low in price will be bought quickly by flipping merchants or people who want to keep the value up.

To prove your manliness by soloing karka veterans and champions.

You should at least report them :p

Drop ascended gear to exotic strength. Keep them around for infusion against agony, but no combat stats, and make them good looking. Possibly keep utility infusions for them.
Basically I want to go back to purely horizontal progression.

Also, add more events and npcs you can interact with in Southsun Cove, it feels pretty empty atm.

Oh and try to fix bux/glitches, best to get those out of the way first, but that’s not really the designer’s job is it?

Neishi.5309:

They had a level 10 in an 80 area?

Gold sellers have a lvl 80 character lead while multiboxing low level characters to follow its actions and get hits for drops. So if you see a group of low level characters attacking things in frostgorge or something, it’s probably them.

The materials have some value. I can’t tell if the weapons do from their icon though. If any have yellow text, they’re fairly valuable. If they have orange text, then they’re worth a few gold at lvl 80.

Hierarchy goes white, blue, yellow, orange, pink, purple with white being the lowest. You can’t normally get pink as a drop (exception being fractals 10+) and they’re very few in number, being restricted to trinkets atm. Purple is only for legendaries.

Seeing as they’re gold sellers, it’s probably quite valuable. One of the few times you were lucky to be hacked lol

Post a screen shot?

A good undercut does speed up selling items because a buyer will see the listings and think “oh that’s a good price, I should buy it before someone else does” as opposed to many similar prices, in which case they’ll just buy it when they need it.

Although this depends on the item in questions of course.

Kantharr.2308:

It would be nice to gift gems to another player. But then that might become a way of trading items to each other through mail (if people even still does that).

What would be the difference between this and trading with gold through the mail?

I think you should be able to send gems since you can already send gold.

Also, it’s be 1600 gems> X gold> 1120 gems. It’s only “taxed” on sell, so it’s not going happen twice.

Alright thanks guys. I guess I’ll hang onto them a bit and spend them on weapons as my characters need them. I do like the 250 use kits/tools, but unfortunately I can’t stock up on them because of bag space issues since I have about 5000 commendations to convert.

Ravion Hawk.4736:

There is an upfront listing fee they show and the projected profit.

What they DO NOT show is the Net Profit AFTER the TP Tax.

They do show the amount of money you get after the TP tax. They just don’t subtract the listing fee from it, so it’s not really “profit” until you take away the fee you paid.

Ex. You list an item for 100g. You paid 5g to do this and it shows a projected profit of 90g. So your real profit (including the initial listing fee) is 85g.

Well they shot back up now, wish I had caught them while they were cheap XD

Eh it’s just harder, not hard.

What do you guys think is the current best use for captain’s council commendations? I have a large amount to use, and I’m not sure what to buy. You can’t salvage or forge the weapons, and keys aren’t being sold anymore. For now I just bought a bunch of rares for my lvl 30 ranger.

So would it be best to a) buy exotics, b) let them sit in my bank to use very slowly as sturdy gathering tools, or c) just hold onto them and hope they add a better use.

I’m not sure c really has any chance of happening though tbh.

Each time you completed a tier you’d get a percentage of your next level xp. At 3 tiers a category that was 12 times you were receiving that xp, which was enough to level up once. I noticed this too and it does making leveling up my other characters a bit harder since this was a big source of xp for them.

nci.1928:

Navzar.2938:

You can actually see it as a stat on your hero panel now too, so it’s easy to verify.

You can? Where? It’s not under attributes.

Ah sorry, I was wrong. Magic find isn’t one of them :/