Guild Wars 2

What happens to XP once you reach the maximum level on each mastery in a given region (Tyria vs. Maguuma)?

Even as a non-focused grinding type player, I’ve completed almost all my Tyrian mastery pieces through working on world completion on one of my characters.

Is XP simply worthless after that point?

Grim West.3194:

HoT changed all that. Now you have a lot of people telling us we shouldn’t enjoy loot and should just play the game for nothing and like it. To hell with those idiots.

There are quite a few businesses around the world that would like very much to hire these people, that’s for sure. Work all day for no pay.

Targeting in GW2 has been, and continues to be a complete disaster.

“Target nearest” for example, simply doesn’t. Nearest non-aggresive non-aggroed mob that’s off in the distance? definitely. But that aggroed mob that is eating your face? not so much.
Obstructions happen right and left when there is a clear line of sight.
Tab is nothing but trouble. It is more likely to target a non-aggressive creature sitting nearby than it is to go to an aggressive mob.

However, I don’t think that the targeting of non-aggressive mobs is broken code as much as immature “pranking” of the players. It makes our characters look stupid, as if they would randomly suddenly decide, as pact commander, to randomly shoot a non-aggressive critter off to the side.

Has anyone with Pact Commander mastery maxed come across limits for how the auto-loot works as far as range?

If you do enough damage on a mob to get loot, but the battle moves you farther than say.. 1200 away from the mob before it dies, is it left there as usual, with sparkling effects?

If so, does it auto-loot when you get within range?

Has anyone with Pact Commander mastery maxed come across limits for how the auto-loot works as far as range?

If you do enough damage on a mob to get loot, but the battle moves you farther than say.. 1200 away from the mob before it dies, is it left there as usual, with sparkling effects?

If so, does it auto-loot when you get within range?

Rauderi.8706:

Soft enrages come with a building tension and the possibility of clutch win. Players are gritting teeth and yelling “Go go go go!” into their mics, making desperation plays and sacrifices so the rest of the team might pull it off, while, numerically, the game is smugly continuing to amp up. “110% damage not enough for you? How about 120%? More damage, more!” until the party endures for a win or they can’t sustain and inevitably topple.
So, if the fight already has a compounding damage mechanic where the boss gains stacks of power when the players fail, let that be the limiter rather than an arbitrary timer.

This. Some will argue that you can have that “go go go!” moment with a timer, but there’s a difference between pulling off a kill at the last second vs. pulling off a kill a few seconds into an increased amount of damage. The latter feels fantastic, the former just feels cheap, and gimmicky (but that’s what Anet is good at unfortunately. They don’t seem to be able to survive without RNG and gimmicks).

A bug on Hope tier I. I know for a fact that yesterday on more than one occasion, people were able to test their Hylek poison on the NPC in Timberline, but another user and I just tried to do the same, for a few minutes, and were unable to get him to go “red” so we could test the poison. This seems to be one that works part of the time, but not all the time.

The places that I have seen them reply (which are really rare), they’ve been pushing the 64bit client, which, if I read correctly, is still beta.

As it stands right now, Anet does not have a stable client at all, and they seem to be betting the farm on their new golden child 64bit client.

Gekigami.2597:

Neural.1824:

Hope I: Tears of Itlaocol. Alchemy table interaction works just fine, but the collection item doesn’t unlock

The recipe is unlocked if you are on a huntsman crafter with the correct skill level. The collection item won’t unlock until you actually craft it. It’s working as intended here.

Ok. I was expecting to get a recipe object in inventory as loot, as with some of the other collection items.

Hope I: Tears of Itlaocol. Alchemy table interaction works just fine, but the collection item doesn’t unlock

Narrrz.7532:

I still want a system by which we can acquire a precursor through a simple investment of time, rather than money, and which is not reliant on RNG.
Nothing like that exists in game, so it seems reasonable to continue to ask for it.

+1 Very well said.

Icdan Sevaen.4628:

Kamohoali’i Kotaki III: The diving goggles in Frostgorge won’t register for the collection.

Not sure if this is as of todays patch or not. I completed Carcharias a bit ago. I did have a couple instances where I needed to do the diving goggles more than once in order to get them to register, however the one in FGS registered the first time around. If you have the time, you might try it a few times, as it would be important to know if this is something that was working but is now broken.

Tokens for Frenzy III (the Friendship bracelets) are still NOT able to be destroyed or sold at vendors.

Sandpit.3467:

It is very stupid what they did to that noise, roll it back it was fine how it was before. I rarely use it now because it is so annoying/embarrassing.

The only exception would be if someone would arrange a ‘Dreamer only’ world boss event, a map full of Dreamer users, now that I would attend

It was fine for a long time, but apparently Anet’s policy is “if it isn’t broken, fix it until it is.”

Katta Castellum.3957:

meh, i think this is just the direction the game is going. weird goofy weapons and wings. soon it will be maplestory with better graphics.

But no Bunny Ears. Those would break immersion.

Black Lion Keys are pretty simple.

Don’t buy them unless you are willing to lose every single time.

You could buy hundreds of them and not get anything good. That’s how Anet makes money, they prey upon the weakness of gambling addiction.

The Dreamer was the first legendary I crafted, and while the whinnying was okay a while ago, the current sound setup is just embarrassing. It’s not that I don’t like it, but when I use the bow all I can think of is how annoying it must be for other people. As a result, it tends to spend more time in my inventory than in use, not because I don’t personally like it, but because I respect that other players are annoyed by it.
Much as I find it nice the way it is, there needs to be some change.
I do like, however, that it seems to stop making the whinny noise when in group battle. It’s more pronounced and audible when in low number combat situations. Not sure if it’s a sound bug or intentional, but at least it’s not making the noise 100% all the time.

Funny thing is, if you finished the map and got 2x the rewards (due to a bug), it would have been fixed within a day.

UnknownFreak.2805:

The 64bit client is in beta, so report any bugs you find, it will hopefully get fixed next or within the “nearest” future.

It may be in beta, but Anet is pushing it as the ultimate problem solver for every conceivable issue in game. I’m surprised they haven’t popped into the precursor bug thread with the “have you tried the 64bit client?” comment yet.

Wish I could say I’m surprised that Anet would do this to the players, but.. no. lol.

cafard.8953:

Another bug in Frenzy Part 3: apart from 2 out of 16, the quaggan bracelets you need for the collection can’t be deleted from inventory… Delete attempt prompts you to enter the item name, but even with the exact name down to the casing, the ‘ok’ button stays greyed out. I now have 14 bag slots used by these…

This one is really irritating, and if their coding is worth anything remotely more than dirt, changing this should be little more than adding a ‘yes’ value along with a price to each of them. It’s not like it’s a bug that needs to be searched down, it’s a variable value.

I wonder when Anet will finally get it through their heads that locking things behind failing events does nothing but promote toxic hateful environments for players.

It’s like they want that or something.

docMed.7692:

Gaile Gray.6029:

A message from John Corpening and John Smith:

We’ve noticed some changes to ascended drop rates that are below what we were expecting.

See, this is what I don’t get about your development team. Why are ascended drop rates below what the developers (you!) expected? You developed the content, you programmed the rates, why would they be different than what you put in or anything other than what you 100% intended? Did someone on their own simply have complete control over fractal rates with no oversight? This design concept seems to run rampant among your developers and is most apparent when reviewing material storage, boxes that open into more boxes, zone-specific keys, etc. (it seems like your internal teams do not communicate changes well with each other, which is a poor reflection on management).

It’s deliberate and intentional obfuscation.

Unless they are using some system cooked up by the Mad King himself, drop rates are finite numbers that exist in the system as variables which they have complete control over. Making it sound like there was some result that was “Unexpected” is nothing but smoke and mirrors. The drop rates are what they set them to be. There was no “mistake” in the changes made. They took off and nuked it from orbit, and now want us to believe it was an “oopsies” moment.

Sakara Prime.5370:

So has anyone actually finished a collection?

With the exception of one bump in the road, Carcharias is able to be completed. Said “bump” is that for one of the collection items in Bloodtide Coast (Wreck of the Argent Warrior) you need to do it with a character that does not have the heart complete just to the west of the wreck.

Xiahou Mao.9701:

The prices right now for Ascended materials have skyrocketed because everyone and their dog is crafting a precursor.

The price on things such as Spiritwood planks has not “skyrocketed”. It’s gone up, yes, but even using prices from two months ago, the OP’s comments still stand.
Also, precursor crafting isn’t the only thing to change that requires ascended mats. They aren’t coming down in price any time soon, and with Raids being introduced, it’ll only get worse. I highly doubt we’ll ever see these items drop below their current prices.

The end result of all this is that Anet clearly never wanted to do any sort of scavenger hunt or such for precursors. They had a gold-grind RNG method in place and are hell bent on keeping it that way, so in response to the players requests, they gave us a gold-grind RNG method of crafting these precursors, and made sure at the same time that it would be more costly than previous methods.

Since the beginning of the game there have been people trolling the forum with their snake-oil-salesman “one fix for everything” comment: just play the game. It’s a ruse. You can’t “just play the game” if you have specific goals in mind like mastery XP etc. The game is simply not designed that way. GW2 is specifically designed and detailed to give you two things: 1) Items that you really really want to have, and 2) so much difficulty in obtaining said items that you open your wallet and just buy gold through the gem store.
“just play the game” does not get you #1.

StanleyJohny.8047:

Anyway what are rewards for map completions in jungle ?

Two blues and a green. That’s my guess anyway. Finished VB last night and got nothing.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if “nothing” was the reward.

Bumping this so people can see it and add their own issues to the thread, since there are so many.

Celtic Lady.3729:

It’s been 19 days.

No, the bugs aren’t all fixed, not even some of the major ones.

I just wonder in another 19 days which ones will be fixed, if any, or if they’re too busy rolling out raids to work on anything else.

This is a recurring theme. They are always “too busy working on <the next big thing>” to deal with current issues.

Draknar.5748:

I love how people look at the requirements and immediately start turning it into what it would cost to buy the mats on the TP, rather than look at it in terms of things you can gather. For free. .

LOL. “free”. Go on, keep believing that.

Edarkness.7543:

Does anyone know what we need yet for NEVERMORE?

3000 giant eyes, 10,000 empyrial fragments, 500 charged lodestones, and at least 10 items that are each hidden at the end of a bugged event chain. And that’s just the 1st tier.

SableHaze.3870:

Lesson learned for future legendary endeavors.

More like lesson learned for ever giving Anet money again. Precursor crafting was the primary reason I bought heart of thorns. If I’d paid the $50 and converted it to gold, I’d have my choice of precursors a long time ago.

Aomine.5012:

Aidan Eighthrain.8612:

What 100% crafting Dawn is costing me :

- HoT (Pre-ordered) : 45 €
- Mats : (inc. ~100 Deldrimor steel CRAFTED with current Iron Ore, etc) : 1000 g +
- Hours of collection unlock.

Dawn price before expansion : 675 g
Dawn price after expansion : 700 g

I’m expecting a huge mea culpa and a gesture from Anet here.

You forget to add 11 millions worth of xp in TYRIA and 100 days of waiting.

Don’t forget that many of the collections have RNG burned into them too.

CaelestiaEmpyrea.2617:

…
The idea of crafting a precursor was to remove the insane randomness of getting a drop…

Except that is exactly what is so infested into the precursor crafting system. RNG is again blocking people from completing their quests. I’ve been killing risen in Orr over the past few days, doing events, killing all levels of mobs, and have yet to get a black pearl. Others are doing the fight against Shatterer in hopes that they will randomly be chosen to be crystallized in order to get a token that way. Others still are waiting for RNGesus to bless them with whatever token they are on.

And that doesn’t even include the issues people are having with bugs and broken events.

At this point, I half expect to get The Lover as a drop before I get to actually craft it.

In crafting Tier I of “The Lover”, you are required to get the item “Love of Gardening”. The hint is: “Dropped by enemies guarding their gardens.”

Assuming that this is the same mechanics that some of the others in the thread here need, I was able to get this item by going to the grape garden in Fields of Ruin south of Ogre Road Waypoint.
There are two ogres guarding the grape garden there. They are just standard mobs, and very easy to deal with. Spawn rate isn’t real bad either, and I only had to kill around 3 of them before I got the token needed.

Overall there aren’t very many precursor collections that aren’t broken at one point or another. Really disappointing.

One of the biggest issues with precursor crafting is starting to overshadow the obscene gold sink, and that is the fact that very few of the precursors can actually be crafted right now. Most of them are completely stalled due to bugs. Some of which have been in the game since long before the expansion. One in particular is an event chain that stalls, and has been known to stall for over a year (Quaggan Games in Frostgorge Sound).

If it is legal, Anet will use it to their advantage.

However, there is a vast amount of space between “legal” and “ethical”

How did you get past the Moshpoipoi token? I’ve run the defense event twice now and the Quaggan never gives me the token.

As for the Quaggan Games, sounds like you got lucky. For me the event chain stalled out.

I am still missing some of the collection items, but I should also point out that so far, all of the Friendship Bracelets that I’ve collected so far cannot be destroyed. I’ve checked multiple times to ensure that I’ve spelled the names of the items correctly, but the “yes” button never highlights.

Quaggan Games event chain in Frostgorge Sound is bugged also, preventing the ability to get the friendship token from Twoloop Varonos Saszglop.

To reproduce the stall (as far as I can tell), you have to get through the chain to the point where you have to help Squilp find seaweed, while at the same time help Slishaa train.
Start by obtaining 1 unit of seaweed and giving it to Squilp, then go help Slishaa train. Once the Slishaa event is complete, go back and finish helping Squilp collect seaweed. Once this event finishes, Squilp will have his conversation with his friend, and the event stalls completely, making it impossible to get the friendship token.

Rage: Tier III. Kahloipoi Friendship Bracelet.

The hint lists the village of Kahloipoi as being located in Cursed Shore.

Kahloipoi and Varonos Parump are locatred near Murmur Waypoint in Malchor’s Leap

edit: Also worth noting that you cannot get the token from Varonos when she’s in vendor mode.

Next: Defending Moshpoipoi in Frostgorge Sound is required to receive a friendship token from Varonos Kassplip, however the NPC does not trigger the token when spoken to, just the generic conversation.

This is an old issue that Anet has been ignoring for 2 years or so. There appears to also be a lot more dev interaction on sites like Reddit than here on the official forums.

Tapioca.9062:

I’m adding my voice to everyone else here. Anet have successfully taken something that wasn’t broken and fixed it into oblivion. It’s just terrible on every level. I get that Anet love and worpship the power of RNG but do we really need to rely on its rarely benevolent hand to decide what activities our guild is going to partake in each week?

Frankly the OP nailed it with what he said. Even if the missions weren’t bugged to the Underworld and back, the increased limitations and lack of choice for guilds would still make this awful. Especially lowering rewards for choosing a category of play that a guild may actually have built its community around.

Lord in heaven, stop it with the hamfisted attempts at social engineering and just let your playerbase play instead of punishing them for not doing what you want. I get it, you’re in love with the idea of esports but, Gretchen, stop trying to make esports happen. It’s not going to happen. Between the first week of missions “just happening” to “randomly” roll a straight set of PvP missions and the penalty to rewards for choosing one game mode it really does feel less like fun guild community time and more like Anet’s attempts to shove its playerbase where it doesn’t want to be.

+1 Well said and very accurate.

The new guild missions set up is the perfect example of “if it’s not broken, fix it ’til it is.”

I agree on the on/off issue. It seems silly that there is not at least an option to keep them on permanently.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I don’t think the complaint is that they want it ‘easier’ per se. Or even that it takes less time. Just less rng.

Honestly, (for example) having to show up at every Shatterer event and praying to every god you can name that he 1)gets his crystalize attack off before we melt him and 2) that he randomly uses it on you specifically, isn’t what people were envisioning.

Having to travel to remote locations, sure.
Dance for a assorted monarchs, great.
Gather specific items for/from a very specific set of heart vendors, absolutely.

Sacrifice your first born to RNGesus? Not so much.

The fact that the situation with Shatterer even exists goes to show that Anet has learned absolutely nothing from all the feedback they’ve had over time.

I don’t mind mild RNG, such as having to kill 5 to 10 sharks for each of the sharks teeth required for the Tier I Carcharias collection. That is reasonable, but some of this other stuff is flat out insulting to the players.

“Precursor drop rate is set to 0.00000000000001% chance, and we know people are upset. We’ve heard your cries! Here’s a collection you can easily achieve. Oh, and this one part of it has a 0.0000000001% chance to happen.”

The Lover: Possible bug. I’ve been hacking up risen in Malchor’s Leap, and Cursed Shore for several hours now (including yesterday) and have yet to see a Black Pearl. Meanwhile, in map chat someone linked it, and had no clue what it was for (indicating that it may be dropping for people who don’t have the collection at all).
I don’t mind a little work to get the item, but I’ve killed hundreds of risen, including champs, veterans, and bosses at events like Melandru.

Other than market demand (which is human driven), there is no difference between precursors of any type. They are exotic weapons. They are all the same level. Market demand is what originally created the price difference between weapons like The Legend vs. Rage.
While the grind is really irritating due to the overwhelming requirement for ascended mats in some of these recipes, what concerns me the most is that Arenanet is now price fixing.
No matter what happens now, The Legend will always have a minimum value on the TP of something around 800gold or so. Rage will always be around 50g or even lower.
If we ever get to fight Bubbles, and they do a massive underwater combat overhaul, then what? Everyone and their brother will have Frenzy, or Kamohoali’i Kotaki, etc.
The weapons are scarce right now because no-body wants them. The precursors are cheap because nobody wants them, but now, they will be cheap because Anet is forcing it to be that way.
I do not think this is a good idea at all.

Doam.8305:

Saw it was about to buy it but it’s only wings nothing else…

The Dragonfly wings are just a backpack no where on the item does it even mention them being usable for a glider skin.

Why do they even bother making wings that can’t be used as wings at this point it’s just like the butterfly wings yet the bat and angel wings can be used for gliding.

For the record I went with a more insect/bug/arachnid theme on my main still waiting a mail/pick/scythe but at this point I don’t see why we don’t have a glider?

This ^^^

These wings would make great glider skins, even if the glider skin was separate from them (so as to allow for the glider wings to be more appropriately sized).

Crimson Clouds.4853:

I agree, this game is a click-fest. Somebody made a post on reddit on how there’s 7-8 average clicks per bag (if you include salvaging, selling, depositing etc).

On the surface, GW2 is a popular MMO, but behind the scenes, GW2 is actually a pseudo-“open source” field test program for mouse manufacturers to test the performance of their products compared to their competitors. /conspiracy